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150 grace to Baptism, no doubt that it was imparted to infants then, though we saw it not; but that it remained in them, as people would acknowledge that their powers of thought or reasoning do, which no one could deny them to have, although they did not see the present exercise of them. Or again, they argued (reversing St. Augustine's method, since the opposite truth was now that disputed) whereas it was admitted, that "infants naturally are somewaise capable of Adam's sinne, and so of unbeleefe, disobedience, transgression, &c. then Christian infants supernaturally and by grace, are somewaies capable to 's righteousness, and so of faith, obedience, sanctification," &c. silencing rightly men's cavils "how can these things be," by reference to the corresponding case, wherein our ignorance was allowed.

This grace, they most usually called, by a sufficiently apt metaphor, (if not too closely pressed) a seminal, (or else an initial, or potential) regeneration; or again an habitual (as