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Rh guilty of any actual sin of their persons." Once more—"Every man that is damned, is damned for original, as well as actual sins, and ."

Sir Edward Leigh, another distinguished member of the Assembly, and the learned author of Critica Sacra, writes thus:

"Arminians say, That there is neither election nor reprobation of infants, and that no infants can be condemned for original sin.

"Jacob was in a state of election in his mother's womb, Romans ix. 11. All men in the council of God are either elect or reprobate. But Infants are men, or part of mankind therefore they are either elect or reprobate,

"1. Infants are saved, therefore there is some election of infants, for salvation is a fruit of election, and proper to the elect, Romans xi. 7. There is a manifest difference among Infants, between those that are born in and out of the Church. Children of unbelievers are unclean, and aliens from Christ and the Covenant of promise, Ephesians ii. 11, 12.

"2. That opinion, that no Infants are condemned for original sin, seems to be contrary to that place, Ephesians ii. 3.