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Heniry Alting was also a member of the Synod, a deputy from the Palatinate, and professor of divinity at Heidelberg and Groningen. And among the "calumnies" against the orthodox doctrine on the punishment of sin, he reckons the following, which we give, with his answer:

"The Calumny. That we indifferently exempt all infants, dying without baptism, from the punishment of original sin, and place them with the happy in heaven.

"The Answer. has said that or written it; not Zuingle, not Calvin, nor any other of the same stamp. But we distinguish between the infants of believers and unbelievers. Those indeed who are born in the covenant, if they are cut off by death so that they cannot be baptized, we number among those to be saved, and that