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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26309	Dying infants sav'd by grace proved and the blessd man with his blessedness described in a sermon preached near Namptwich in Cheshire at the burial of a deceased infant, July 25, 1695 / by S.A.	Acton, Samuel, d. 1740?	1699 (1699)	Wing A452; ESTC R28175	24,873	32

upon this Occasion Which is further evident if we consider 2. That the degree to which God has exalted his Grace and Mercy in Christ the Second Adam is not inferior but rather above the pitch and degree whereto he exalted his Justice in condemning all in the first Adam Justice makes no more than All Sinners in the first Adam upon his transgression and Grace makes no less than All righteous in Christ Jesus or through his Righteousness imputed For Rom. 5.18 as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all Men to condemnation even so by the Righteousness of one the free Gift came upon all Men to justification of Life If upon all that believe who have sinned after the similitude of Adam's Transgression then much more upon them who have not so sinned because the preheminence is given to the free Gift of Grace by Christ as Rom. 5.14 15. intimating that if Adam's Sin was efficacious enough to make all men Sinners the Righteousness of Christ which is God's own Righteousness is much more efficacious to make them righteous And truly with reverence we may demand How can God himself express the extent of his Kindness in terms more positive and intelligible than he doth here And I am very certain we neither have nor ever had any reason to suspect him as insincere or to call in question the truth of his Allegation No his Word is an exact draught of his Mind and what he says he means As we all believe Infants were condemned in Adam there 's as good reason to believe 'em justified in Christ and such to whom the Lord will not impute Sin Which will further appear if we consider 3. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in becoming a Propitiation for the Sin of Infants not only for actual but original Sin not only for the Sins of the Adult and Believer but of the Infant also Had Christ been said to be a Propitiation for the Sins of Believers only it might have struck our hopes into a staggering posture with reference to the eternal State of our dying Babes unless Foederal Holiness so much talked or by some or the Faith of immediate Parents could have reliev'd them against the condemning Sin of our remote Parents But if that were so the greatest part of Infants are and must be unavoidably miserable as they are the Off-spring of Unbelievers which the greatest part of the World are Nay it may on good ground be conjectur'd that one half of those who profess themselves Church-Members are but little better since our blessed Saviour compares the Kingdom of Heaven to ten Virgins of whom five were wise and five were foolish Mat. 25.1 But blessed be God we have a better Bottom to build our hopes upon as to the eternal State of dying Babes than such sandy Foundations as those viz. Christ's expiating and doing away the Sins of the World by the Sacrifice of himself And this John Baptist had an eye to when he saw Christ coming and pointed at him saying Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World enough sure to resolve all Doubts and to stop every mouth for ever from contradicting what we have alledged That God imputes not Sin to the eternal condemnation of dying Infants since Christ died for them for them indefinitely and without exception May we not as warrantably question whether Christ died at all as to scruple much less to deny that he took away the condemning guilt of Original Sin by the Oblation of himself since he is said thereby to take away the Sin of the World Is there any one actual Sin in the World that so generally and universally extends it self as to deprave and corrupt all Flesh Old and Young Saint and Sinner Christian and Pagan I confess with grief and sorrow profane Swearing is very rife Lying and Dissimulation is very common Pride Covetousness Envy and Hatred Whoredom and Uncleanness Violence Murder and profaning the Sabbath of the Lord is very predominant yet none of these things are universal that which is common with one is abhor'd by another as the covetous Man cannot endure the approach of Pride Luxury and Prodigality But were any or all of these Sins of a universal Extent so as to corrupt all capable of committing them of what Sex and of what Nation soever yet our Infant Race is safe and out of all possibility of being stained by them or being brought under the power of any of them from their utter incapacity to commit any of those things by which the Wrath of God is brought upon the Children of Disobedience and them only For if no Sin can be intended by the Sin of the World but Original Corruption then the Immaculate Lamb of God hath atoned for that and taken it away so that it shall never be of efficacy and power to condemn a dying Infant any more than it shall be of force to condemn a true Believer the same reason being rendred for the one as for the other by the Apostle John who speaking of Christ saith 1 John 2.2 He is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for ours only but for the Sins of the whole World Mark not only for ours in which term he includes with himself all true Believers of what Rank soever high or low rich or poor respected or despised in the World whose Sins are done away by Christ's atoning for them But the Apostle adds for the Sins of the whole World Not of the whole World as it consists of habitual and voluntary Sinners as Swearers Drunkards Idolaters Adulterers and the like for such lie under the heavy charge and imputation of Sin until by Faith in Christ repentance from dead Works and obedience to the Gospel they shall by the Grace of God obtain Impunity Therefore the whole World consider'd in an Infant state and no other can be intended by the Apostle whereby the eternal blessedness of dying Infants is secured since God according to the Law of Grace through the Righteousness and Death of his Son hath acquitted and discharged Infant Man from the imputation of Adam's Sin so as that he shall not perish eternally for it But in case Man survives his Infant state and contracts Guilt by voluntary transgression in his own Person as you and I have done and be not renewed by Repentance from dead Works and justified by Faith in our Lord Jesus according to the Tenour of the Gospel then we must perish unavoidably and eternally not for Adam's Sin but for superadded Sins Sins of our own against the Law of Grace and the Love of a Redeemer Thus God is clear from the death of his Creatures and Sinners the alone Authors of their own destruction according to the Scriptures But for such Infants as survive not their Infant-state we conclude they are blessed because God will not impute Sin unto them as appears not only from the Law of Grace but 4. From the Law of Equity and Righteousness

turned into a frightful Visage by Death whether natural or violent as Absalom's was whose Beauty surpassed that of Women What is Wit but a Flash and tho it be excellent and deservedly coveted by all yet alas how soon is the sharpest Wit spoiled and confus'd by Melancholy or Phrensy And as of these so it may be concluded of all the rest of Nature's Endowments which loudly proclaim that true Blessedness is not in them Nor is it in the Goods of Fortune I confess Fortune may render you very prosperous in having the Advantage of her favourable and beneficial gales but the most she can do for you is to raise you by the wings of Fame exalt you to the highest pitch of Honour set upon your Heads a fading Diadem and waft you into the port of your wish'd for Possession Wealth enabling you to accommodate your selves with every thing desirable to the Heart and delightful in the Eyes of vain Man as in the case of Solomon But it 's not in Fortune to make you happy tho she would at once empty her self to fill you If Crowns or Kingdoms could make Men happy then Saul Ahab and Nebuchadnezzar had been blessed Neither can Honour or Wisdom else Haman and Ahitophel had been Blessed Nor can Riches and great Possessions if they could the young and rich Man in the Gospel had been blessed who from his increasing Goods thought himself a very happy Man he sang a Requiem to his Soul and caressed himself with a Come eat drink and be merry thou hast Goods laid up for many Years Luke 12.19 as if he had said Come Soul forbear to weary and perplex thy self with plodding contriving and projecting Means and Artifices for the gaining of more cease to weary thy self by toilsome Labour take thine ease thy fill of Pleasure eat drink and be merry thou hast Goods laid up for many Years But notwithstanding the great Advantage he had of other Men in appearance he was in truth no wiser than a Fool nor happier by his trusting in those things than one miserable beyond all Expression as is evident from the Lord 's own estimate of him and what he says to him in the 20th Verse And God said Thou Fool this Night shall thy Soul be required of thee then whose shall these things be which thou hast provided Neither can the highest attainments in Tongues and Languages make Men Blessed else Herod had been happy who in his Oration to the People delivered himself so exquisitely that they concluded it rather to be the Voice of a God than of a Man Acts 12.22 Also on this foot of Account the Learned Greeks had been Blessed whose attainments in the Learning of the Schools were such as raised them above the having any venerable esteem of the Wisdom of God accounting Christ in the ministration of the Gospel to be but Foolishness 1 Cor. 1.23 Now were it possible for Man to possess himself of most or all these good things at once he might notwithstanding be of all Men the most Miserable as may be concluded from that amazing and direful outcry to the weighty Hills and Mountains to fall upon them and crush them as it were into nothing so that they might be but hid from the Presence of God and the Wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6.16 But who were these that thus courted the Hills and Mountains to fall on them Were they any other than the silly shrubs of the Earth poor Men Men of a mean Figure in the World Yes for the 15th Verse tells you that they were Kings of the Earth that is such Kings only whose Sins the Lord had marked and imputed upon their living repugnant and walking in a course that ran counter to those Laws which the King of Heaven and Earth had given them and by the Conduct whereof they should have order'd all their Affairs in obedience to him their Rightful Lord and Soveraign With these also you find ranked great Men rich Men mighty Men and chief Captains which may serve as a Memorandum to the Rich and Mighty of this World that they do not crush the Poor nor hurt the Needy nor by their Power and Austerity unjustly force the Poor from their Right nor by the use of Violence and Oppression increase their Wealth insulting over the distressed like that Imperious Pope of whom I have read that trod upon the Emperor's Neck to help himself on Horseback For a day of Accounts will come when such will be convinced with great Horror and Dread that it is not in the power of Riches and Royalties to make Men Blessed And on the other hand there is no Distress so great nor Poverty so extreme nor Affliction so deep as to render that Man miserable whose Sin is not imputed Such a Man is taught to believe that his present Evils with respect to his Afflictions shall work for his good and turn to his Advantage by the disposition of God's good Providence which is ingaged for him Else the Royal Prophet had never proclaim'd it good for him that he was Afflicted Psal 119.71 Nay further by Faith in the Promises the Good whereof is that Man's Portion alone whose Sin is not imputed he is helped to peirce the Clouds of the thickest darkness and look into that delightsome Region of Heaven it self and there behold the smiles of a loving Father towards him the endeavours of a wise faithful and compassionate Advocate for him yielding him such a taste and sense of the sweetness of Divine Love as raises him above the sense and bitterness of Affliction It was this that made St. Peter and John rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer Stripes for the Lord Jesus It was this that made St. Paul and Silas tho laden with heavy Shackles and their feet made fast in the Stocks to sing the Praises of God Acts 16. 'T is not the Evil Accidents or Indisposition that attends our Bodies or Interests in the World that can make the Man whose Sin is not imputed unhappy or miserable for the wise Man tells us That the Spirit of a Man sustains his Infirmities Prov. 18.14 A Man may have a sound Spirit in a weak and sickly Body a free and chearful Spirit in a Body closely confin'd and oblig'd to undergo the last Severities of Art and Physick as blistering blooding cupping and dismembring nay in a Body sinking by the power and prevalency of a Distemper into dissolution which of all things is most dreadful to humane nature But under such a Circumstance what matter of Joy would it be to a Man to have his weak and languishing Body restored to a sound and healthful frame and habit for which how are Physicians courted their assistance sollicited and some Men do let their Gold fly as if they had no regard unto it But to have Sin pardoned and be freed from the imputation of its guilt is much rather and more truly a ground of joy to the Soul tho dwelling in a Body