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Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when the author attained to the eightieth year of his age. II. A dying testimony to the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of his elect, containing three sermons. III. Believers encouraged to pray from the consideration of Christs interceding for them, and with them. / By Increase Mather, D.D ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719
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2. This is evident, In that Infant Children are obnoxious to the wrath of God. Eph. 2. 3. Children of wrath by nature. Sometimes they bring into the World with them sad tokens of the displeasure of God. Some are born Blind, some are born Deaf, & so continue to be dumb all their days: Others bring woeful diseases into the World with them; Natural diseases which show they are subject to Moral diseases. Nay, they are subject to Death as soon as they come into the World; by that Argument the Apostle proves that Infants have the guilt of Sin upon them. Rom. 5. 14. Death reigned over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression. That is to say, That had not been guilty of any Personal Actual Sin; Death reigneth over them, therefore they are under the guil• ⟨p. 6⟩of Sin, the wages whereof is Death▪ And there have been some Infants in the World, that God has manifested a special indignation against them: so the Infant Children of the Amalekites, 1 Sam. 15. 3. GOD commanded Saul that he should destroy the Amalekites, particularly, The Infant & the Suckling. And is it not said concerning the Infant Children of the Babylonians? Psal. 137. 9. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the Stones. Would it be so, if Children in their Infancy were altogether free from Sin? How many thousands, it may be Millions of Infant Children did there perish in the flood▪ how many when Sodom & Gomorrah was destroyed? Concerning those that destruction fell upon, in the 7th. Verse of Judes Epistle: It is said, They suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.
2. This is evident, In that Infant Children are obnoxious to the wrath of God. Eph. 2. 3. Children of wrath by nature. Sometimes they bring into the World with them sad tokens of the displeasure of God. Some are born Blind, some are born Deaf, & so continue to be dumb all their days: Others bring woful diseases into the World with them; Natural diseases which show they are subject to Moral diseases. Nay, they are subject to Death as soon as they come into the World; by that Argument the Apostle proves that Infants have the guilt of Sin upon them.