Answer to the Question Charged by Grantham, Title page 1 – Title page 2
THE ANSWER OF Giles Firmin, TO THE Vain and Unprofitable Queſtion put to him, and Charged upon him by Mr. GRANTHAM, In his Book, Entituled, The INFANTS ADVOCATE: VIZ. Whether the greatest Part of Dying Infants ſhall be Damned? Which Advocate, while he ſhuts all Infants out of the Viſible Church, and denies them Baptiſm, opens Heaven to all Dying Infants, juſtifying thoſe of his Party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without Regeneration. The Preface may be very Uſeful for the Children of Godly Parents.
Quo loco, illud praefandum eſſe videtur, Miſerecordiam noſtram erga parnulos jam defunctos, nihil eis prodeſſe, & contra nihil eiſdem obeſſe, ſententiae noſtrae ſeveritatem: multum autem nobis obeſſe, ſi ob inutilem Miſericordiam erga defunctos, pertinaciter aliquid contra Scripturas aut Eccleſiam defendamus. Id circo non affectum quendam humanum, quo plerique moveri ſolent, ſed Scripturae, Conciliorum, & Patrum Sententiam conſulere debemus. Bellar. Praef. To. 4. p. 145. a.
2 Epheſ. 3. And were by Nature Children of Wrath, even as others.
3 Joh. 3.5. Except a Man be born again, he cannot ſee the Kingdom of God.
12 Heb. 14. Follow—Holineſs, without which no Man ſhall ſee God.
LONDON: Printed for John Lawrence, at the Angel over-againſt the Poultrey-Compter. MDCLXXXIX.
THE ANSWER OF Giles Firmin, TO THE Vain and Unprofitable Queſtion put to him, and Charged upon him by Mr. GRANTHAM, In his Book, Entituled, The INFANTS ADVOCATE: VIZ. Whether the greatest Part of Dying Infants ſhall be Damned? Which Advocate, while he ſhuts all Infants out of the Viſible Church, and denies them Baptiſm, opens Heaven to all Dying Infants, juſtifying thoſe of his Party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without Regeneration. The Preface may be very Uſeful for the Children of Godly Parents.
Quo loco, illud praefandum eſſe videtur, Miſerecordiam noſtram erga parnulos jam defunctos, nihil eis prodeſſe, & contra nihil eiſdem obeſſe, ſententiae noſtrae ſeveritatem: multum autem nobis obeſſe, ſi ob inutilem Miſericordiam erga defunctos, pertinaciter aliquid contra Scripturas aut Eccleſiam defendamus. Id circo non affectum quendam humanum, quo plerique moveri ſolent, ſed Scripturae, Conciliorum, & Patrum Sententiam conſulere debemus. Bellar. Praef. To. 4. p. 145. a.
2 Epheſ. 3. And were by Nature Children of Wrath, even as others.
3 Joh. 3.5. Except a Man be born again, he cannot ſee the Kingdom of God.
12 Heb. 14. Follow—Holineſs, without which no Man ſhall ſee God.
LONDON: Printed in the Year 1689.