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Rh we deserve otherwise. 'Ah quot sunt, erunt in inferno miselli infantuli,' &c., who never had the knowledge of good and evil! And might not God have left thee in the same misery? This (I say) is a pious meditation. [!!] Though that scoffing Remonstrant prefix this expression amongst others in the front of his Book, as if it were no less than blasphemy."

Dr. Manton, who wrote a hundred and thirty-nine sermons on the hundred and nineteenth psalm, and whose orthodoxy we believe was never called in question, though not a wember of the Assembly, was a popular preacher at Parliament, and in favor with so many parties, that he may be taken as the fit exponent of religious opinions generally prevalent in his day. And he compares infants to "serpents before they be grown," and shows us that the doctrine of infant damnation was not only taught in the systematic divinity of that day, but actually preached from the pulpit, as may be seen from the following extract:

"Arminians say, That of Infants there is neither Election nor Reprobation, and that no Infant can be condemned for Original Sin; both which assertions are false; for we find that the Predestination of God hath plainly made a difference between Infant and Infant. Rom. 9. 11, 12, 13."—"That none is condemned for Original Sin, is also groundless, and contrary to the Scripture; for we read, Eph. 2. 3, that we were by nature children of wrath, even as others. It is mercy,