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The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him,…
The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him, and charged upon him by Mr. Grantham, in his book, entitled, The infants advocate : viz. whether the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned? : Which advocate, while he shuts all infants out of the visible church, and denies them baptism, opens heaven to all dying infants, justifying those of his party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without regeneration.The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him, and charged upon him by Mr. Grantham, in his book, entituled, The infants advocate : viz. whether the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned? : Which advocate, while he shuts all infants out of the visible church, and denies them baptism, opens heaven to all dying infants, justifying those of his party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without regeneration.
London: printed for John Lawrence, 1689
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.
It was never the Question. Those which I treated of, were:
Quest. I. Whether God Regenerates any Infants?
2. Whether God Circumcise the Hearts of any Infants? [Which your Disciple said true, come both to one.] Both which were denied by two of your Sect, and the latter denied by your self*.
- *Against Mr. Petto. p. 51.
I proved, if Infants be Saved, they must be Regenerated, 3 Joh. 3. They must be Sanctified. Heaven is an Inheritance only for Sanctified Persons, 20 Act. 32. and 26 chap. 18. They must be made meet for it, 1 Col. 12. I am sure they are not meet for it by Nature.