Ezekiel 9:5-6

5 And to the others he said in mine hearing,c Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

6 Slay utterlyd old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Eze. 9:5, 6. It is a great evidence that infants are guilty of sin [Query: Rather involved in the guilt and penalty of the Fall? - G], that when these destroying angels were sent on that errand to execute God's fury upon the people, Ezekiel 9:8, and that reason was given for it, that their iniquity required such terrible vengeance, and that it was a just recompense of their sin, verse 10, - I say that when these angels came on such an errand, and also had express direction to spare some, to avoid them with great care and not come nigh them, yet they are directed to smite and slay utterly without pity all the rest, young and old, and even little children. Those that they are with such great care to except and not come near, are excepted expressly because they had approved themselves not partakers in the sins of the city; and therefore who can imagine that at the same time orders should be given to smite and slay utterly, without their eye sparing or having pity, those that were a great deal more evidently free from having any share in the sin of the city, because they are not capable of sinning, which is the case of little children if they have no original sin? This order would never, surely, have been given with such circumstances, merely for the sin of the parents, if they had no sin that was properly their own, as we may be the rather assured, because God Himself did so fully and largely declare to this prophet that children would not die for the iniquity of the father, nor for any iniquity that they were not properly guilty of, in chap. 18 of Ezekiel.

Eze. 10:19

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