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Baptized Infants?
The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, "TELL IT ALL"
Little do our friends know how much mischief they do by teaching
infant baptism. I believe it to be the root and pillar of Popery.
It is an invention of man, against which Christians ought to protest
every day, because infant sprinkling is a practical denial of the need
of personal godliness.
It puts into the Church those who are not in the Church.
It gives religious rites to the unconverted.
It teaches men that because their mothers and fathers were good
people, therefore these baptized infants are Christians; whereas
they are not, they are heathens, and as much heathens as if they
were born amidst the Hottentot’s kraals. They are in the gall of
bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity, notwithstanding all their
parents’ excellence.
To give Christian ordinances to unconverted persons is to pervert
the testimony of God’s Church.
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