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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.
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.
But for all your great Words in that Page, I still say, Mr. Grantham is a Man very corrupt in the Doctrine of Original Sin, or he must grossly contradict himself. For,
But for all your great Words in that Page, I still say, Mr. Grantham is a Man very corrupt in the Doctrine of Original Sin, or he must grosly contradict himself. For,
First, 1Twice in one Page you tell us, Infants are not guilty of any Sin of their own. Then they have no Sin of their own: It is impossible to part Sin and Guilt, tho' God pardon the Punishment.
- 1Against Mr. Pet. p. 27.
If Infants have no Sin of their own, 1