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 220 aiP?mf. [Booz H. than one, as if it hath two heads and breasts not well joined, in that case one is to be absolutely baptized and the other conditionally--If tAot art ,tot bspt/s,d. The same is to be observed ff it hath two heads and one breast, or the contrary."* The reader who desires to trace the mazes of error farther may con* su!t the works referred to in the margin, where he will find many things worse than puerile. vI. TA   1. The Roman Church teaches that baptism is necessary to salva- tion, so that all children, whether those of Jews, heretics, pagans, or Roman Catholics, who die unbaptized, are excluded from heaven; and that adults cannot be saved without baptism, either in desire or in fact. The Council of Trent, in her seventh senion, canon fiRh, declares: �' Whoever shall affirm that baptism is indifferent, (i/Zerum, fr or matter of cAo/ce,) that is, not necessary to salvation; let him be cursed." Again in the fifth session, concerning original sin, and in the fottrth canon, the council declares: "Whoever shall nflJrm that newly bern infants, even though sprung from baptized parents, ought not to be baptized; or shall say that, though they are baptized for the remis- sion of sins, yet they derive not from Adam that original guilt which must be expiated in the laver of regeneration, in order to obtain eternal life; let him be accursed."t In the fifth canon of the satno session the council says: "Whoever shall deny that the guilt of original sin is remitted by the grace of our t,ord Jesus Christ, bestowed in bapti8m; or shall stflJrm that that wherein sin truly and properly consists is not wholly rooted up, but is only cut down, or not imputed; let him be accursed." In the foregoing decisions of the council we have it asserted that 5aptm is necessary to salvation; that newly born infants are baptized for the remission of sins, and that original guilt is expiated in the laver of regeneration in order to obtain eternal life, and that the guilt of ori- ginal sin is remitted by the grace of our Lord Jesu8 Christ, bestowed in baptism. On this point we 8elect the foilowino from the Catechism of the Council of Trent: "Baptism washes awa the stains of sin," p. 152. � "The law of baptism extends to all, xnsomuch that, unless they are regenerated through the grace of baptism, be their parents Christians or infidels, they are born to eternal misery and everlasting destruc- tion," p. 162. "If, then, through the transgression of Adamq. children inherit the stain of primeval guilt, is there not still stronger i to eonclude that the efficacious merits of Christ the Lord must ' to Bap'lk. also Ferraris on the word Boprmu, art. v, Non. )-10; aim OoHet de B t, 8, tom. iv, p. 172. Bailly de Bapt., c. 7, prop. 2, tom. iii, p. 48. '  "8i quis parvulon recentes ab uteris matrum baptizandon, negat, etiam 8i foet. a baptizatis parentibus orti ,ed nihil ex .am trahere o 'nginalis peccati, qued mgeneratmnb layre:re necese anathema expiari ad vitam toterham consequendam; sit."Conc. ., mess v. Decr, t.  pfe or, can. 4. . .  St Jesu Christi Domini nostrt gratiam, qum m biptimati coofortur re- 9uis per atum ofigindia peceati remitti negat; nut etism minetit non to!li toturn id, qued v am ' rufiouem et propram Peecati sed ilJud dieit tantom radi, aut non im!tati; ma thorns sit"--ldm, can. . 1
 * ,' Menstrum, dieit pastorals,"&c. Dens, vol v, p. 00, de Bapt., No. See

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