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Pope St. Innocent I, Inter Ceteras, To The Council of Mileve, Jan. 27, 417: “But that claim which your Fraternity asserts that they [the Pelagians] preach, namely, that children can be endowed with the rewards of eternal life even without the grace of baptism, is utterly foolish… But those who claim this [eternal life] for them without regeneration seem to me to wish to nullify baptism itself, since they preach that these have what is believed to be conferred on them only by baptism.  If therefore they [the Pelagians] want to claim that not being reborn is no hindrance [to eternal life], it is necessary that they should confess that the sacred streams of regeneration are of no benefit.  But in order that the perverse doctrine of unnecessary men may be refuted by the swift reason of truth, the Lord proclaims in the Gospel, saying: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven’ (Luke 18:16).”[2]