4.—Cœlestius Concedes Baptism for Infants, Without Affirming Original Sin.

You, of course, see that Cœlestius here conceded baptism for infants only in such a manner as to be unwilling to confess that the sin of the first man, which is washed away in the laver of regeneration, passes over to them, although at the same time he did not venture to deny this; and on account of this doubt he refused to condemn those who maintain “That Adam’s sin injured only himself, and not the human race;” and “that infants at their birth are in the same condition wherein Adam was before the transgression.”

4. Nempe cernitis sic Coelestium concessisse parvulis Baptismum, ut in eos transire primi hominis peccatum, quod lavacro regenerationis abluitur, noluerit 0388 confiteri, quamvis et negare non ausus sit: et propter hanc dubitationem suam non damnaverit eos qui dicunt, «Quod peccatum Adae ipsum solum laeserit, et non genus humanum; et quod infantes qui nascuntur, in eo statu sint, in quo Adam fuit ante praevaricationem.»