"'Behold we see Adam set free,
And sav'd from his trespass,
Whose sinful fall hath split us all,
And brought us to this pass.
Canst thou deny us once to try,
Or grace to us to tender,
When he finds grace before thy face
That was the chief offender?"
And then the stern and inexorable judge is represented as closing his answer to the little petitioners' prayer with these lines:
"'You sinners are, and such a share
As sinners may expect,
Such you shall have; for I do save
None but my own elect.
Yet to compare your sin with their
Who liv'd a longer time,
I do confess yours is much less.
Though every sin's a crime.
"'A crime it is, therefore in bliss
You may not hope to dwell;
But unto you I shall allow
The easiest room in hell."
Such are the views entertained by the Christian church prior to Swedenborg's time, respecting the final state of multitudes who die in infancy. Such is a brief exhibition of the evidence on which we base the assertion that the belief in the doctrine of infant dam-
