Theological Theses · §656 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Others: every infant has sufficient grace — baptism prepared for all

Contra Vasquez: sufficient grace is given even for every infant.

God prepared baptism for all infants, as far as in Him lies.

Parents and guardians got immediate or mediate power to baptize — and so to procure their salvation.

Latin

X. Sed contra alii affirmant, etiam respectu ipsorum infantium, gratiam omnibus sufficientem dari: idque quoniam Deus, quantum in ipso est, baptismum omnibus infantibus paravit, & parentibus, ac aliis in quorum potestate sunt infantes, seu immediatam, sive mediatam facultatem dedit ipsos baptizandi, & ita salutem eorum procurandi.

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