CHAP. XIX. Of the State of Infants as to Salvation. (Book 19)
§. 1. I Have said so much of this in two Books a∣gainst the Anabaptists, and in my Christian Directory, that I shall therefore here be brief. What measure of Glory, and holy intellectual ope∣rations Infants shall have after Death, we know not; but we have reason to judge, that they shall not be like Brutes, nor so unintelligent as in the Body, nor sleep in an unactive Potentiality; but be, intellectual Agents.
§. 2. The Conceits of a middle state of those unbaptized, as having poenam damni, and not p••∣nam sensus, we know not what to make of, unless they suppose them to be not actually, but only po∣tentially intelligent: For one that is deprived of true felicity, must by knowing it, have the sense of his Privation. Nor do we find in Scripture any Proof