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32 from the "Articles devised by the King's Highness Majesty, to establish Christian quietness and amity among us, and to avoid contentious opinions, &c. 1536:"

And the same opinion was maintained in the English Church, certainly as late as Swedenborg's time—possibly it may be held by some in that church even at this day. Thus Matthew Scrivener, the learned author of a work on the use of the Fathers, tells us that—

"Either all children must he damned dying unbaptized, or they must have baptism. The consequent is plain from that principle in Christian religion, which Anabaptists have been constrained to deny, to uphold their other, That all sin not washed away or expiated, exposes to damnation: and the principle in Christian religion is, That children come into the world infected with original sin; and therefore if there be no remedy against that provided by God, all children of Christian parents, which St Paul says are holy, are liable to eternal death, without remedy. Now there is no remedy but