The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

6. Infants dying in their Infancy cannot be charged with rejecting of Gods Covenant. It is true, they are by nature Children of wrath as well as others. They have a relation which they bear to the first Adam, and derive both Guilt and Pollution from him, by virtue whereof the Justice of God hath a righteous plea against them; they have a corrupt nature cleaving to them in their very conception and birth, and they sadly show it as ⟨p. 86⟩soon as they come to a capacity of doing any humane actions. But if we look to the Gospel Covenant, which God hath seen meet in his Sovereign Pleasure to extend unto them, they have for the present done nothing at all against it: they have never despised a Saviour, nor turned their backs upon Salvation, they have never said unto Christ, depart from us: they have indeed a nature in them prone enough to do this; they have congenerate principles which adhere to them by virtue of Original Sin, which would lead them unto all this in time, if not graciously prevented: but the act they are at present incapable of, and this also affords a good supply of encouragement unto parents, to consider that God hath taken away their Children before they ever d•d practically renounce his Covenant which he had taken them under; and hereby hath prevented them of […] any such consideration to exercise their minds withal.

6. Infants dying in their Infancy cannot be charged with rejecting of Gods Covenant. It is true, they are by nature Children of wrath as well as others. They have a relation which they bear to the first Adam, and derive both Guilt and Pollution from him, by vertue whereof the Justice of God hath a righteous plea against them; they have a corrupt nature cleaving to them in their very conception and birth, and they sadly shew it as ⟨p. 86⟩soon as they come to a capacity of doing any humane actions. But if we look to the Gospel Covenant, which God hath seen meet in his Soveraign Pleasure to extend unto them, they have for the present done nothing at all against it: they have never despised a Saviour, nor turned their backs upon Salvation, they have never said unto Christ, depart from us: they have indeed a nature in them prone enough to do this; they have congenerate principles which adhere to them by vertue of Original Sin, which would lead them unto all this in time, if not graciously prevented: but the act they are at present incapable of, and this also affords a good supply of encouragement unto parents, to consider that God hath taken away their Children before they ever dd practically renounce his Covenant which he had taken them under; and hereby hath prevented them of any such consideration to exercise their minds withal.