A85311:52
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.
As for the Hellish Torments you speak of so much, Bellarmin *tells the Pelagians, [who are your Friends] and Catharinus, allow Infants Eternal Life, and Natural Blessedness, without any pain; other Opinions you may read in him, if you please: But where the Scripture is silent, why should we speak?
- *Tom. 4. p. 144.• Militissima omnium poena Aug.
Having named Pelagius, and charging you in my Answer to your Book with Pelagianism, I will here consider your Outcry against me: p. 28. where you tell me, what you have written in your Book, which you call Christianisinus Primitivus.
Having named Pelagius, and charging you in my Answer to your Book with Pelagianisin, I will here consider your Outcry against me: p. 28. where you tell me, what you have written in your Book, which you call Christianisinus Primitivus.
I never saw any of your Book, nor did I ever hear of your Name, till I saw your Book against my self; there I found you did own Peccatum Originans, but not Originatum. So I told you.