Correct! A H Strong Agreed!

A comment was posted today from a reader and he is "right on the money" about the great Baptist, A. H. Strong. In fact, Brother Bob Ross has a tract available (possibly even posted on the internet) titled "Strong versus Berkhof." Every neo Hyperist "Baptist" needs to read this! Strong taught the Baptist viewpoint, the one in keeping with the old confessions, and did not at all endorse the "hybrid" view of the "infant sprinkling" Presbyterians about "regeneration being on the subconscious level" and lacking faith and repentance!

Anyway here is the comment and I say "amen brother"!

"A. H. Strong agreed with Pendleton, Boyce and the historic confessions that regeneration is simultaneous with repentance and faith:

"Regeneration, or the new birth, is the divine side of that change of heart which, viewed from the human side, we call conversion. It is God's turning the soul to himself, -conversion being the soul's turning itself to God, of which God's turning it is both the accompaniment and cause. It will be observed from the above definition, that there are two aspects of regeneration, in the first of which the soul is passive, in the second of which the soul is active. God changes the governing disposition, -in this change the soul is simply acted upon. God secures the initial exercise of this disposition in view of the truth, -in this change the soul itself acts. Yet these two parts of God's operation are simultaneous. At the same moment that he makes the soul sensitive, he pours in the light of his truth and induces the exercise of the holy disposition he has imparted....At the same instant that God makes the soul sensitive, he also draws out its new sensitibility in view of the truth" (Systematic Theology, pp. 809, 810).

He also taught, in keeping with the Second London Confession of Faith and the Westminster Confession of Faith over against many post 17th century theologians, that regeneration/new birth is identical with effectual calling: "For further discussion of the subject, see, in the next section, the remarks on Regeneration, with which this efficacious call is identical" (Systematic Theology, p. 793)."

(Highlighting emphasis mine - SG)