What transubstantiation is in the order of reason the Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptised infants, and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation, are in the order of morals.
These calumnies were greatly encouraged by the ecclesiastical rule, which withheld from the unbaptised all knowledge of some of the more mysterious doctrines of the Church, and veiled, at least, one of its ceremonies in great obscurity.
It was in Tertullian’s time that this notion originated, and it had its roots in the catechumenate and the consequent partition of the service into two parts, from the second of which the unbaptised were excluded.
All theologians of the Mother Church are agreed," replied the gracious father, "first, that infants dying unbaptised are excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven.
Purlingly the good man went on to explain that damnation is a state admitting of many degrees; and that the unbaptised infant would not suffer in that state the same punishment as the adult reprobate.
The amiable Presbyterian, not relishing this, still amiably threw the gauntlet down to Father Riley, demanding the Catholic view of the future of unbaptised children.
Father Riley was good enough to tell us last week of the state of unbaptised infants after death.
We might stomach a God who would save orthodox burglars along with orthodox bishops, but not one who saved unbaptised infants and adults of unsound doctrine.
But the unbaptised scoffer must burn forever--and the little boy knew at last what was meant by "the majesty of God.
Before the Reformation, it was the custom to bury unbaptised children apart from members of the Church, the north side of the churchyard being reserved for that purpose.
The ignis fatuus was sometimes supposed to be the soul of an unbaptised child.
The redbreast, according to one popular legend, was commissioned by the Deity to carry a drop of water to the souls of unbaptised infants in hell, and its breast was singed in piercing the flames.
For this emperor, though he had great virtues, was anunbaptised infidel.
It is still the doctrine of the Christian Church that infants dying unbaptised are doomed to hell, but to the British this barbaric dogma evidently never appealed.
Many proselytes have I made; many unbaptised babes offered up in sacrifice.
An unbaptised babe, stolen from its sleeping mother's breast," rejoined another.
Then said the King: "King Svein has no right to let unbaptised men leave his kingdom and wander about from one country to another.
The King said that he was free to remain in his retinue, but added: "You will not remain longunbaptised with me.
However, {722} the notion that unbaptised children will be tormented, gradually gave way to a more humane opinion.
The enormity of the crime of causing an infant's death was enhanced by the notion that children who had died unbaptised were doomed to eternal perdition.
But he knew well enough that it was the unbaptised child, and he took some water from the bog-hole and dashed it over it, saying, "I baptise thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
At these gatherings sorcerers were supplied with exquisite meat and drink, served in vessels of gold and silver; and at other times with cooked toads, unbaptised children, and the flesh of malefactors cut down from gibbets.
She no longer had any link with the far- away ancestor who had served her so long as a sort of ideal--she was a mere foundling without any name save the unbaptised appellation of Innocent.
But according to the civil law the corpse of a Jew, or paynim, or unbaptised infant maketh the place of its sepulchre religious: yet by the Christian religion and the canonical doctrine the body of a Christian alone maketh it so.
To be buried there is, in the language of our eastern counties, to be buried out of Sanctuary: and the spot is appropriated to suicides, unbaptised persons, and excommunicates.
But stillborn and unbaptised children are to be buried without the cemetery.
In most Christian lands the unbaptised child is given over entirely to the latter.
Remembering them to be the souls of unbaptised children, he solemnly stretched out his hand and pronounced the words of baptism over them.
The origin of this repugnance is said to have been the notion that the northern part was that which was appropriated to the interment of unbaptised infants, excommunicated persons, or such as had laid violent hands upon themselves.
And Dante makes him do worse; for the whole unbaptisedinfant world, Christian as well as Pagan, is in his Tartarus.
In the first circle are the whole unbaptised world--heathens and infants--melancholy, though not tormented.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unbaptised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
