“How came your mind to be so blind?   I once you knowledge gave. Clearness of sight and judgment light:   who did the same deprave? If to your cost you have it lost,   and quite defac’d the same, Your own desert hath caus’d the smart;   you ought not me to blame. CLXIII. [136] “Yourselves into a pit of woe,   your own transgression led; If I to none my Grace had shown   who had been injured? If to a few, and not to you,   I shew’d a way of life, My Grace so free, you clearly see,   gives you no ground of strife. CLXIV. [137] “’Tis vain to tell, you wot fall well,   if you in time liad known Your misery and remedy,   your actions had it shown: You, sinful Crew, have not been true   unto the Light of Nature, Nor done the good you understood,   nor owned your Creator. CLXV. [138] “He that the Light, because ’tis slight,   hath uséd to despise, Would not the Light shining more bright,   be likely for a prize. If you had lov’d, and well improv’d   your knowledge and dim sight, Herein your pain ’had not been vain,   your plagues had been more light.“ _Reprobate Infants plead for themselves._ CLXVI. [139] Then to the Bar all they drew near   Who died in infancy, And never had or good or bad   effected pers’nally: But from the womb unto the tomb   were straightway carried, (Or at the least ere they transgress’d)   who thus began to plead: CLXVII. “If for our own transgressi-on,   or disobedience. We here did stand at thy left hand,   just were the Recompense; But Adam’s guilt our souls hath spilt,   his fault is ckarg’d upon us; And that alone hath overthrown   and utterly undone us. CLXVIII. “Not we, but he ate of the Tree,   whose fruit was interdicted; Yet on us all of his sad Fall   the punishment’s inflicted. How could we sin that had not been,   or how is his sin our, Without consent, which to prevent   we never had the pow’r? CLXIX. [140] “O great Creator why was our Nature   depravéd and forlorn? Why so defil’d, and made so vil’d,   whilst we were jet unborn? If it be just, and needs we must   transgressors reckon’d be. Thy Mercy, Lord, to us afford,   which sinners hath set free. CLXX. “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,   who was the chief offender?“ _Their arguments taken off._ CLXXI. [141] Then answered the Judge most dread:   God doth such doom forbid, That men should die eternally   for what they never did. But what you call old Adam’s Fall,   and only his Trespass, You call amiss to call it his,   both his and yours it was. CLXXII. [142] “He was design’d of all Mankind   to be a public Head; A common Root, whence all should shoot,   and stood in all their stead. He stood and fell, did ill or well,   not for himself alone. But for you all, who now his Fall   and trespass would disown. CLXXIII.