Spurgeon on Being Baptist

(assorted quotes from C.H. Spurgeon—various sources)

“We are convinced that [Baptists] have, beyond their brethren, preserved the ordinances of the Lord Jesus as they were delivered to the saints.”

“We Baptists like water because our Master has ordained the use of it; but we must also have fire, fire from heaven, the fire of the Holy Ghost.”

“I recollect my mother saying to me, ‘I prayed that you might be a Christian, but I never prayed that you might be a Baptist’; but, nevertheless, I became a Baptist, for, as I reminded her, the Lord was able to do for her exceeding abundantly above what she had asked or thought, and he did it.”

“We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born.”

“‘Ah!’ say you, ‘You Baptists make a great deal of baptism.’ We Baptists do not make any more of baptism than the Lord Jesus Christ has done; but I was not talking about Baptists, I was talking about the words of the Lord Jesus Christ as they are recorded in the New Testament. He says, ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved [Mark 16:16]. Is not that plain? Someone asks, ‘Can we not be saved without being baptized?’ I am not going to answer such a question as that; my business is to bid you listen to what Jesus Christ says, ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.’ Give good heed to what Christ says, and raise no questions concerning it. For my part, I am going to run no risks, and therefore I take the whole passage just as it stands.”