Excerpt from Sermons of Rev. C. H. Spurgeon: Preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London

I find that the great error which we-have to contend with throughout England (and it is growing more and more), is One in direct Opposition to my text, well known to you as the doctrine Of baptismal regeneration. We will confront this dogma with the assertion that baptism wit/tout faith saves no one. The text says, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but whether a man be baptized or no, it asserts that lze tilat belieu et/t not shall be damned: SO that baptism does not save the unbeliever; nay, it does not in any degree exempt him from the common doom of all the ungodly. He may have baptism, or he may not have baptism; but if he believeth not, he Shall be in any case most surely damned. Let him be baptized by immersion or Sprinkling, in his infancy or in his adult age: if he be not led to put his trust in Jesus Christ -if he remaineth an unbeliever - then this terrible doom is pronounced upon him, He that believeth not Shall be damned. I am not aware that any Prot estant church in England teaches the doctrine of baptismal re generation, except one, and that happens to be' the corporation which with none too much humility calls itself the Church of England. This very powerful sect does not teach this doctrine merely through a section of its ministers, who might charitably be considered as evil branches of the vine, but it Openly, boldly, and plainly declares this doctrine in her own_appointed standard, the Book of' Common Prayer, and that in words so express, that, while language is the channel of conveying intelligible sense, no process Short of violent wresting from their plain meaning can ever make them say anything else.

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