THE DAMNATION OF INFANTS.
[To TUE EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Dr. Fisher must certainly know "The Confession of Faith," but if he believes, as Dr. Barnes appears to have done, that Calvinism has never taught that infants are "lost at all," what does he make of the following P-
Chap. III. 3. "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto ever- lasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death." "3. Those . . . are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished."
" X. 3. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit. • . . So are all other 'ANA persons."
"4. Other not elected . . . cannot be saved."
I have left out no qualifying words, and have merely under- lined the word " elect " as having but one possible meaning in it's context, which is that only elect infants can be saved. In other words, to die in infancy was counted no proof of elec.- tion. But to die out of election is to be "passed by," and to go into "torments and utter darkness," "to the praise of God's glorious justice." Did not Calvinism teach that P And
does it not still P-1 am, Sir, &a, A QUESTIONER.
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