ture we deserve otherwise. 'Ah quot sunt, erunt in inferno miselli infantuli,' &c. Ah! how many little infants are, and shall be in hell, 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."[1]
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:
- ↑ Anthony Burgess on Original Sin, pp. 550, 551. Ed. 1659.
