Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
If you plunge into eternity clutching the airy fiction
(Octavius Winslow, "From Grace to Glory" 1864)
We do not hesitate to pronounce the doctrine of
"baptismal regeneration" to be the paramount
lie of Satan; the most subtle and fatal weapon
which this arch foe of our race ever forged for the
destruction of men's souls in eternal perdition!
Do not build your hope of glory upon your baptism.
You are lost to all eternity if you do. You must be
born again if ever you enter the kingdom of heaven.
If you plunge into eternity clutching the airy fiction,
the fatal notion, that you passed from spiritual death
into spiritual life in your baptism; that in baptism you
were regenerated, adopted, justified, made holy and
saved; you have staked your eternal happiness upon
the most fatal lie!
In many instances, the unhappy victim of this delusion
passes away, undeceived until the deception is too
late to rectify!
(Octavius Winslow, "From Grace to Glory" 1864)
We do not hesitate to pronounce the doctrine of
"baptismal regeneration" to be the paramount
lie of Satan; the most subtle and fatal weapon
which this arch foe of our race ever forged for the
destruction of men's souls in eternal perdition!
Do not build your hope of glory upon your baptism.
You are lost to all eternity if you do. You must be
born again if ever you enter the kingdom of heaven.
If you plunge into eternity clutching the airy fiction,
the fatal notion, that you passed from spiritual death
into spiritual life in your baptism; that in baptism you
were regenerated, adopted, justified, made holy and
saved; you have staked your eternal happiness upon
the most fatal lie!
In many instances, the unhappy victim of this delusion
passes away, undeceived until the deception is too
late to rectify!