"I say, with every ground of
probability, that there is no marvel that Popery should increase when you have
two things to make it grow: first of all, the falsehood of
those who profess a faith which they do not believe, which is quite contrary to
the honesty of the Romanist, who does through evil report and good report hold
his faith; and then you have, secondly, this form of error known as baptismal
regeneration, and commonly called Puseyism, …
"The velvet has got into our
ministers’ mouths of late, but we must unrobe ourselves of soft raiment, and
truth must be spoken, and nothing but truth; for of
all lies which have dragged millions down to hell, I look upon this as being
one of the most atrocious—that in a Protestant Church there
should be found those who swear that baptism saves the soul. Call a man a Baptist, or a
Presbyterian, or a Dissenter, or a Churchman, that is nothing to me—if he says
that baptism saves the soul, out upon him, out upon him, he states what God
never taught, what the Bible never laid down, and what ought never to be
maintained by men who profess that the Bible, and the whole Bible, is the
religion of Protestants. ….
"To lift it [water baptism]
up in the other way, and say men are saved by it—ah! my friends, how
much of mischief that one falsehood has done and may do, eternity alone will
disclose."
Baptismal Regeneration, A Sermon (No. 573) Delivered
on Sunday Morning, June
5th, 1864 , by the Rev. C. H. SPURGEON, At the
Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
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