Let us hear the Confession again: “These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite that it can not be either increased or diminished.” _Con. page 19._ This decree of predestination and foreordination is _particularly_ and _unchangeably designed_, and the number thus particularly and unchangeably designed can not be _increased_ or _diminished_. But it will be said that this is not said of _infants_, but of “angels and men.” So it is. But _when_ was this decreed? “From all eternity.” These _men_ “foreordained to everlasting death” were thus “particularly and definitely designed” “from all eternity.” We may not be able to explain precisely the meaning of the words “from all eternity,” but they evidently mean before they were created. Before they were born, then, some men were foreordained to everlasting death. When they were born they were _infants_; yes, _infants_ “particularly and unchangeably _designed_” to everlasting death. Those of these infants foreordained, “particularly and unchangeably designed to everlasting death,” who die in _infancy are lost_. Here, then, in the Confession of Faith, which Presbyterian ministers profess to believe, is the doctrine of _infant damnation_—yes, “the horrid doctrine,” whether they believe it or not. But then infant damnation is no worse than the damnation of adults who are foreordained to everlasting death, particularly and unchangeably designed to everlasting death, the number so definite that it can be neither increased nor diminished. Let us hear the Confession again: “Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature as conditions or causes moving him thereto; and all to the praise of his glorious grace.” _Con., page 21._