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A00887	The life and gate of Christianitie entreating of the sacrament of baptisme, deuided into five bookes. Contayning the effects, the mater, the forme, the baptiser, and the partie baptised: with the reasons and use of all the auntient rites and ceremonies. ... Composed, gathered, and written by O.A. ...	Almond, Oliver.	1614 (1614)	STC 11; ESTC S100511	119,637	234

Catholik● Diuines that Children dying without Bapti●me being their ordinarie onely meanes of sa●uation shall suffer the paines of damnatio● You must vnderstand there are two kinds an● manners of punishmentes or paines to be executed vpon sinners after this life that is Poena damni poena sensus The Paine of Damnation and the Paine of sense The first doth consist of the perpetuall want of the blessed vision and fruition of the sight of God The other which is Poena sensus The paine of sense doeth consist in the eternall torment of hell fier wherwith the soule for the present shall be tormēted and after the generall resurrection both soule and bodie eternallie witthout intermission For the first as hath beene proued it is manifest that childrē dying without Baptisme are subiect vnto death eternall accounted as damned who shall neuer see God And the reason is plaine out of Scripture as hath beene sayed Io. 3. For by Originall sinne euen children are depriued of and exiled from the glorious cittie and kingdome of heauen they are become by nature the children of wrath Eph. 2. Also they haue the ire of God hanging ouer them continue as Captiues vnder the power of Satan Prince of darknesse but those who are in this estate are in state and way of damnation Therfore childrē dying without Baptisme are subiect to eternall death and are accounted as damned and so consequentlie neuer in possibilitie to ●nioy the fruition and sight of God but incurre Poenam damni The punishment of damnation So that now the question is whether Infants dying without Baptisme shall feele and suffer the torments of hell fire Fulgē de fide ad Pet. 3.27 There are some of opinion as Fulgentius an ancient writer who seemeth to make no doubt therfore but that they shall in some degree endure the verie torments of hell fire And to this inclineth Ariminensis a Scholeman Arimi 2. dist 33. q. 3. Dried de grā lib. arbit tract 3. c. 2. And Driedo writing of controuersies But the generall sentence of Fathers and Diuines is to the Contrarie that Infants dying without Baptisme shall not suffer the paines and torments of hell The reason is because Positiue actuall punishemēt is not inflicted but for actuall offence but Infants neuer did nor can offend actuallie for Originall sinne is in them but habituall wherfore it is sufficient for them to be reiected from the sight of God and banished the kingdome of heauen and not to be punished with the torment of hell fire Wherfore the want of the blessed vision and sight of God is attributed the ordinarie penaltie and paine for Originall and the torment of hell fier as the paine due for actuall sinne And Saint Iohn heard the voyce from heauen speaking of the sinnes of Babilon saying Quantum se glorificauit c. Apoc. 18.7 As much as she hath glorified her selfe and hath beene in delicacies soe much giue her torment and mourning As if he should haue sayed the measure of paines and damnation is according to the wicked pleasures and vnlawfull delights of this life but children and Infants could not any way be proud nor giue themselues to anie sensuall delight or pleasures of this world therfore no way sensiblie to be tormented And Esay the Prophet sayeth that God Reddet increpationem c. will shew his threatnings in the flame of fire Esai 66 45. because our Lord shall iudge betweene the good and the badde in fire And S. Marke the Euangelist describeth the punishment for them who committe scandall that is to goe into hell Into the fire vnquenchable where their worme dieth not Mar. 9.45 and the fire is not quenched But there is no action to be discerned good or badde in Infants neither can they committe anie scandall or haue remorse of conscience or worme gnawing for anie euill workes Therfore the paines of hell fire are not due or to be executed vpon them but vpon elder sorte who cōmitte actuall sinne Wherfore we may cōclude that Children dying without Baptisme shall haue Poénam damni the punishment of damnation that is to be damned for their Originall sinne but not haue Poenam sensus The paine of hell fire because the haue no actuall sinne CAP. 8. Vhether that Infants shall after this life be here on earth and enioy the pleasures as men doe now or be in hell or what place they shall possesse SOme there are of opinion that children dying without Baptisme after the generall resurection shall haue amiddle place neither in heauen nor in hell but shall liue here on earth Bellar. lib. 6. de statu peccati c. 2. and enioy a certaine kind of natuall felicitie and pleasure such as the earth can yeeld But this opinion or rather I may say this errour is worthelie confuted by that religious Cardinall Bellarmine I call it an errour because Saint Augustine doth record it as speciallie maintained by the Pelagian Heretikes Aug. li. de haer ca. 8 8. l. de Orig. animae ca. 9. And writing of the origine of the soule sayeth Nemo non Baptizatis paruulis promittit inter damnationem regnum coelorum locum quietis c. No man doth giue or promise to children dying without Baptisme as it were a middle place of quiet and felicitie betweene heauen and hell damnation and saluation And why Because sayeth S. Augustine Hoc enim haeresis Pelagiana eis promisit thus much the Pelagian heresie hath promised Aug. li. de orig animae ca. 14. And intreating of the same matter he sayeth further Nouellos Hereticos Pelagianos iustissime c. Most iustlie the late new-sprong vp Pelagian Heretikes hath the Catholike Councells and sea Apostolike by their authoritie worthely condemned because they presumed boldly to appoint and giue to children not Baptized an other place of quiete and felicitie besides heauē Wherfore I doubt not but that it may lawfullie be called an errour to assigne to children not Baptized a middle and third place of quiete and felicite as shall be proued hereafter by Scripture and reason First S. Iohn in the Apocalyps sayeth Blessed and holy is he that hath parte in the first resurrection Apoc. 20.9 for in those the second death hath no power Also he sayeth He that is not found written in the booke of life shall be cast in stagnum ignis into the lake or poole of fier Ibid. 16. But Children dying without Baptisme are not partakers of the first resurrection that is the washing and cleansing the soule from Originall sinne that therby they may haue the grace of God to rise to saluation and consequentlie haue not their names written in the booke of life Whervpon it followeth that the second death that is damnation must raigne in them and their place of a bode must be the lake of fire which is hell And S. Paule doeth tell the Collossians Colos 1.13 That by Christ we are deliuered from

the power of darkenes But the onlie meanes by Christ instituted to deliuer Infants and children from darknesse and the power of Satan is Baptisme wherfore vntill they be Baptized they remaine captiue and vnder the power of Satan in darknesse But they who conuerse with Satan in the dungeon of darknesse can not be in place of pleasure nor enioy great felicitie Ergo it is manifest they remaine in hell It is plaine in the Gospell that in the latter day when Christ shall come to iudge the world Mat. 25.23 all men must goe either on the right hand or on the lefte There are then but two wayes but children dying without Baptisme are not for the right hand then of necessitie they must goe on the left hand but the way on the l●ft hand is damnation and hell if damnation and hell then no place of pleasure and felicitie Werfore to conclude what care ought Parents to haue that this Sacrament of Baptisme be duly ministred to ther Children And what griefe it ought to be in them if by their negligence or by inclining vnto this new deuise of Caluin they should send their Infants vnto the darke dungeon of hell vnder the power of the deuill captiuitie of Satan There is but one difficultie or obiection of any importance Obiect that may be vrged against the alleadged reasons that is After the generall Iudgment and destuction of the world by fire Almightie God will make all new Apoc. 21. A new heauen and a new earth but this new earth shall not be vacant without inhabitans The Angells and Saints and seruants of Christ shall haue heauen the deuills and damned shall haue hell It soundeth probablie that the Infants and children dying without Baptisme who neuer committed actuall sinne may haue this middle place inhabite the earth and enioy the pleasures therof To this argument I answeare Sol. that this earth shall not be inhabited neither by man nor beast And that by the heauen is vnderstood the ayre Heauen and earth shall be a new that is all the fower elementes the ayer the water the earth and the fire shall be renewed made pure without mixture and put in their naturall places The ayre shal haue no liuing thing in it the birds and fowles of the ayre shall be gone the waters shall enuiron and compasse about the whole earth there shall be no fish in it the earth shall haue no cattle no beasts no liuing creature in it no trees no fruite no flowres no grasse on the ground Non erit arida There shall be no drie land But as I haue sayed all shall be enuironed and compassed about with the wathers The reason is pregnant out of Saint Iohn Apoc. 21. Who sayeth Prima terra abijt mare iam non est The first earth is gone the seas now are not For the wather shall be without tearme or limitte For what are the seas but waters limitted within such a compasse that they shall not passe to enuiron or ouerwhelme the whole earth Therfore after the first creation of the elements God sayed Gen. 1.9 Congregen●ur aquae in locum vnum vt appareat arida Congregationesque aquarum appellauit maria Let the wathers be gathered to geather in one place that the drie land may appeare and the gathering to geather of the wathers he called the seas So thar we may conclude that when in the innouation the seas shall be no more the waters shall haue their full course ouer the face of the whole earth Tho. in sup a. q. 91. ar 5. And the reason in this innouation of the destruction of all things both in the ayre the wathers and on the earth may be because all these creatures as the fowles of the ayre the fishes of the seas the beast and fruits of the earth were ordained of God only for the vse maintenance and comfort of man but man being taken away all the elements shall be renewed and restored to ●heir naturall course So that there can be no ●abitatiō at all vpon the earth of man or beast Two places there shall remaine only habitable ●hat is heauen and hell heauen for the good Angells and Saints and hell for the deuills and damned soules Therfore the ordinarie opinion of School-diuines is that the place for Children dying without Baptisme In. 2 senten dist 33. v. in 4. dist 45. shall be ●he horrible prison and dungeon of hell And ●his onlie reliefe they shall haue as hath bene ●ayed they shal not suffer anie sensible pai●e nor be tormented with hell fire nor ha●e anie worme of conscience grawing on ●hem nor remorse for anie fault they did ●pon earth because they neuer committed ●nie actuall sinne Wherfore I conclude they can haue no middle place betweene heauen and hell neither can they inhabite or liue on the earth to enioy anie naturall kind of felicitie or pleasure CAP. 9. VVhether they shall haue anie excessiue grief in hell for that they are depriued of the fruition and sight of God Aug li 6. in Iulianū cap. 4. vltra mediū B. Greg. lib. 9. moral c. 16. Fulgē de fide ad Pet. IT is the opinion of some Doctours as S. Augustine S. Gregorie and Fulgentius that the Infants dying without Baptisme can not be exempted nor freed from all sorrow and grief because they know they were created to the Image and liknesse of God and that they want their finall end for the which they had their begining which was to prayse God to see God and to haue a certaine beatitude and blessednes the want wherof can not but be a certaine great grief vnto them Yet it is the more generall opinion of the greater part of Diuines that their sorrow and grief can be but small and litle because they haue manie causes to lenifie and mitigate this their grief and sorrow Although they had a knowledge of God and were not ignorant of some kind of beatitude and blessednes yet because they neuer had any acte or habite to execute it wherby they might attaine vnto it but a weake remote and farre of disposition onlie which could effect nothing therfore their grief cā not be great for the losse of that wherof they neuer had perfect knowledge nor in them selues meanes to attaine Againe it was nor by their proper negligēce but by the fault of an other that they haue lost so great a good Also these Infants neuer tasted of the delights of heauen or earth but we know by experience that we neuer grieue so much for the want of those things we neuer had as we doe for the losse of those things we haue possessed or were in power to enioy We are easely cōtent to want tose things we neuer had vse of and neuer looked after neither in Spe nor In re Neither in expectance nor in deed But so it is with the Infants therfore their grief can not be great Besides all this it must needes be a