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Rh ''Christ; and his death and passion are not communicated unto any but by outward signs and sacraments. And no other do we read of but this of water in baptism.''"

And some eminent divines of the Church of England have even maintained, that baptized infants would be lost if not among the elect. The learned Dr. Edwards, whose opinion on this subject has already been cited, and who wrote in the earlier part of the 18th century, says:

This passage leaves us in no doubt that Edwards was a believer and defender of the dreadful doctrine of infant damnation. Equally explicit, too, is the language of Archbishop Usher, another eminent divine of the Church of England, who lived and wrote in the earlier part of the 17th century: 2*