If
I thought I it wrong to be a Baptist, I should give it up, and become what I
believed to be right. The particular
doctrine adhered to by Baptists is that they acknowledge no authority unless it
comes from the Word of God. They attach
no importance to the authority of the Fathers - they care not for the authority
of the mothers - if what they say does not agree with the teaching of the
Evangelists, Apostles, and Prophets, and most of all, with the teaching of the
Lord Himself. If we could find infant
baptism in the Word of God, we should adopt it.
It would help us out of a great difficulty, for it would take away from
us that reproach which is attached to us - that we are odd, and do not as other
people do. But we have looked well
through the Bible, and cannot find it, and do not believe that it is there; nor
do we believe that others can find infant baptism in the Scriptures, unless
they themselves first put it there.
Charles Spurgeon
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