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Rh objections" which he undertakes to solve, are drawn from a treatise "On the Imputation of Adam's Sin," by Daniel Whitby, published in London in 1711, and which he says contains "whatever sophistry can be urged against original sin." The ninth of these "objections" is this: "To subject infants to eternal punishment for Adam's sin, is to treat them worse than the devil himself, or than Adam, who himself committed the sin." To this Stapfer replies:

We have already quoted from Dr. Manton's sermons to show that the doctrine of infant damnation not only entered into and made a part of the