A62053:199
The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission
The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission wherein is discovered, the nature, causes, and cure of those sins / by Geo. Swinnock.
London: printed for Geo. Swinnock, 1675
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 15: The reason of Christs severe Sentence, and a question resolved, whether the Righteous,…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. Then there can be no Election of Infants to everlasting life. I mean, of such as God fore-seeth or ordaineth to die in their infancy, because God cannot ⟨p. 101⟩fore-see that these will improve the liberty of their wills unto Faith and Repentance. That Infants may be saved, is clear, Matth. 19.14. Suffer little Children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew calls them [Greek or Hebrew], Luke [Greek or Hebrew], the first word signifieth Puerulus, a little Child, one, say the Critics, that is in the first seven years of his Age. But the latter, Luke 18.15. signifieth Infants newly born, or sucking Babes. Now if of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, then they may be saved. But none are saved, save such as are elected; therefore without any fore-sight of Faith or good Works, rational Creatures may be elected, Rom. 8.30. Rom. 11.7.
4. Then there can be no Election of Infants to everlasting life. I mean, of such as God fore-seeth or ordaineth to die in their infancy, because God cannot ⟨p. 101⟩fore-see that these will improve the liberty of their wills unto Faith and Repentance. That Infants may be saved, is clear, Matth. 19.14. Suffer little Children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew calls them 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Luke 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the first word signifieth Puerulus, a little Child, one, say the Criticks, that is in the first seven years of his Age. But the latter, Luke 18.15. signifieth Infants newly born, or sucking Babes. Now if of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, then they may be saved. But none are saved, save such as are elected; therefore without any fore-sight of Faith or good Works, rational Creatures may be elected,