Christian Baptism
By C. H. Spurgeon and HUGH STOWELL BROWN
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About the authors:
Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher.
Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the Prince of Preachers.
Hugh Stowell Brown (10 August 1823 - 24 February 1886) was a Manx Christian minister and renowned preacher.
Hugh Stowell Brown was a preacher, pastor and social reformer in Liverpool in the nineteenth century. His public lectures and work among the poor brought him great renown.
C. H. Spurgeon
CHARLES H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) was known as England's most prominent preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. He preached his first sermon at the age of 16, and by 22, he was the most popular preacher of his day, habitually addressing congregations of six to ten thousand. In addition, he was active in philanthropic work and evangelism. Spurgeon is the author of numerous books, including All of Grace, Finding Peace in Life's Storms, The Anointed Life, and Praying Successfully.
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Christian Baptism - C. H. Spurgeon
SUMMARY
SUMMARY
CHRISTIAN BAPTISM
LESSONS FROM CHRISTS BAPTISM
EXPOSITION BY C. H. SPURGEON
CHRISTIAN BAPTISM
by HUGH STOWELL BROWN
"Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with Him through the
faith of the operation of God who has raised Him from the dead."
Colossians 2:12.
It is the firm belief of almost all Christian people that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, before He left the earth, instituted two ordinances, namely, baptism and the Lord’s Supper ordinances which were to be observed by His disciples throughout every age on to the end of the world. Perhaps, indeed, I ought to say that all Christian people without any exception whatever, acknowledge the appointment to which I have just referred; even the Society of Friends, although it rejects the outward and visible signs, nevertheless, believes in those great principles which those signs are intended to symbolize, namely, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the communion of the soul with Christ.
By almost all Christians in every age of the world, the observance of the outward sign as well as the recognition of the inward grace has been regarded as part of the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. On this occasion, we have to do only with the ordinance of baptism, and to this I wish to draw your candid and careful attention.
The ground upon which this ordinance is founded is the command of our Savior addressed to His disciples just before He ascended to heaven when He said, Go you, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Now, if this is a command of Christ, (and I am not aware that the genuineness of the passage in which it appears has ever been called into question), then, of course, it is the duty of all Christian people according to their convictions as to the nature and meaning of this command to observe and to maintain it on to the end of time! I think it may also be asserted that, with the exception of the Society of Friends, all Christians regard the ordinance of baptism as one in which water is to be employed in some way or other, and very rightly so, because if baptism is altogether inward and spiritual the baptism of the Holy Spirit then we must believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a baptism which one man cannot administer to another.
The very fact that the baptism mentioned in the Scripture is a baptism which one man can administer to another is sufficient to prove that in this baptism there is some outward, visible, material rite, ceremony, or ordinance which Christian people are to observe. Thus far, with the exception of the Society of Friends, I believe we are all agreed that the ordinance of baptism does imply the use and application of water in some way or other. So far we all, or nearly all, travel together, but at this point, the body of Christians to which we belong feel compelled to pursue a different course from that which is adopted by their brethren.
The very name we bear indicates that there is something or other in connection with the ordinance of baptism in which we do not agree with the great majority of Christian people. And for the information of such as may not be thoroughly well informed upon this point, (and I by no means cast the slightest slur or rejection on any man’s intelligence if I suppose him to be a little uninformed upon this point, for very extensive ignorance with regard to it prevails), I shall in a very few words try to explain the difference or differences which exist between us and other Christians upon this matter.
The majority of Christian people believe that, as far as the outward rite