The infants advocate against the cruel doctrine of those Presbyterians who hold, that the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned : in answer to a book of Mr. Giles Firmin's entituled, Scripture warrant, &c. / by Tho. Grantham.

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The infants advocate against the cruel doctrine of those Presbyterians who hold, that the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned : in answer to a book of Mr. Giles Firmin's entituled, Scripture warrant, &c. / by Tho. Grantham.

Author

Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.

Publication

London :: Printed by J.D. for the author,

1688.

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Subject terms

Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697. -- Scripture-warrant sufficient proof.

Infant baptism -- Controversial literature.

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Contents

• title page
• The PREFACE.
• Division 1.
• Divis. 2.
  • Arg. 1. If all, even adult Persons, are passive in the work of Re∣generation, then Infants are capable of Regeneration. But the Antecedent is true.
  • Mr. F's Arg. 2. No unclean Person shall see God; Heb. 12. 14. But Infants by Nature are unclean. If the Scripture be believed, they must bear the Image in which they were created by God, that ever see the face of God.
  • Arg. 3. Mr. F. tells us, If Adam had continued in Innocency, his Children had born the Image of God from the Birth: I never heard it denied. That which I infer hence is, that Children are capable of the Image of God, and receiving the Seeds of all Grace it was so then, why not now?
  • Mr. Firmin's Arg. 4. If all Children dying such are justified and saved, then there will be Millions in Heaven, in whom the Spirit of God, as the third Person in the Blessed Trinity, had nothing to do in their Salvation.
• Divis. 3.
• Division 4. Concerning Original Sin.
• Division 5. Of Free-Will.
• CONCLƲSION.