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CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTES
ON CALVINISM, THE COVENANTERS, CHRIST AS CONQUERING KING,
CHRISTMAS, AND MUCH MORE!
CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTE
ON THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS
Better that
Scotland were hacked by Claverhouse for cleaving to the Lord, than that she
should be flattered by infidels for her gradual departure from the faith. Let
not the blood of the Covenanters be spilt in vain... I am glad you are
writing on Scots Worthies. Oh, that Scotland may stand fast in this evil
day! (Charles Spurgeon, probably written to Andrew Bonar, emphases added).
CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTE
ON AFFLICTION
"The Lord
gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction" (Charles
Spurgeon).
CHARLES SPURGEON
QUOTE ON READING
As the apostle
says to Timothy, so also he says to every-one, 'Give yourself to reading.' ...
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no
brains of his own... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all
light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,
especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of
the Bible... the best way for you to spend your leisure is to be either reading
or praying.
(C.H. Spurgeon as cited in John Knox, Oliver Cromwell, God's Law and the
Reformation of Civil Government by Reg Barrow, http://www.swrb.com/newslett/FREEBOOK/RBarrow.htm).
CHARLES SPURGEON
QUOTES ON CALVINISM
It is no
novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these
strong old doctrines that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are truly
and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus. By this truth I make my
pilgrimage into the past, and as I go, I see father after father, confessor
after confessor, martyr after martyr, standing up to shake hands with me . . .
Taking these things to be the standard of my faith, I see the land of the
ancients peopled with my brethren; I behold multitudes who confess the same as
I do, and acknowledge that this is the religion of God's own church. (Spurgeon's
Sovereign Grace Sermons, Still Waters Revival Books, p. 170).
I have my own
opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified,
unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it
Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can
preach the gospel if we do not preach justification by faith without works; nor
unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor
unless we exalt the electing unchangeable eternal, immutable, conquering love
of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel unless we base it upon the
special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ
wrought out upon the cross. (Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 1, 1856).
... and I will
go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, 'If
any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of
man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.'
It may seem a harsh sentiment; but he who in his soul believes that man does of
his own free will turn to God, cannot have been taught of God, for that is one
of the first principles taught us when God begins with us, that we have neither
will nor power, but that He gives both; that he is 'Alpha and Omega' in the
salvation of men. (C.H. Spurgeon from the sermon "Free Will A Slave",
1855).
You must first
deny the authenticity and full inspiration of the Holy Scripture before you can
legitimately and truly deny election. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 3, p.130).
When I was
coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the
Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me. I do not think the young
convert is at first aware of this. I can recall the very day and hour when first
I received those truths in my own soul - when they were as John Bunyan says,
burnt into my heart as with a hot iron; and I can recollect how I felt that I
had grown all of a sudden from a babe into a man - that I had made progress in
scriptural knowledge, through having found, once for all, the clue to the truth
of God ... I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the
Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and
from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this
my constant confession, I ascribe my change wholly to God. (Charles Spurgeon, Autobiography:
1, The Early Years,
Banner of Truth, pp. 164-165).
George
Whitefield said, "We are all born Arminians." It is grace that turns
us into Calvinists. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 2, p. 124).
Calvinism did
not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all
truth. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 7, p. 298).
We declare on
scriptural authority that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so
depraved, so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to
everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible
influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained toward Christ.
(Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 4, p.139).
I do not come
into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return
to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold
of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you
for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the
freedom of the will.
I believe that
Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a
saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the
work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there
was might going forth with the word of Jesus which makes men willing, and which
turns them from the error of their ways by the mighty, overwhelming,
constraining force of divine influence, I should cease to glory in the cross of
Christ. (C.H. Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 3, p. 34).
A man is not
saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy
Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man,
disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved. (C.H. Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 10, p. 309).
I question
whether we have preached the whole counsel of God, unless predestination with
all its solemnity and sureness be continually declared. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 6, p. 26).
CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTES
ON LIMITED ATONEMENT
If Christ on
His cross intended to save every man, then He intended to save those who were
lost before He died. If the doctrine be true, that He died for all men, then He
died for some who were in Hell before He came into this world, for doubtless
there were even then myriads there who had been cast away because of their
sins. . . That seems to me a conception a thousand times more repulsive than
any of those consequences which are said to be associated with the Calvinistic
and Christian doctrine of special and particular redemption. To think that my
Savior died for men who were or are in Hell, seems a supposition too horrible
for me to entertain. (Charles Spurgeon, Autobiography: 1, The Early Years, p. 172)
We are often
told that we limit the atonement of Christ, because we say that Christ has not
made satisfaction for all men, or all men would be saved. Now, our reply to
this is that, on the other hand, our opponents limit it, we do not. The
Arminians say, Christ died for all men. Ask them what they mean by it. Did
Christ die so as to secure the salvation of all men? They say, "No,
certainly not." We ask them the next question-Did Christ die so as to
secure the salvation of any man in particular? They say, "No." They
are obliged to admit this if they are consistent. They say, "No; Christ
has died so that any man may be saved if"-and then follow certain
conditions of salvation. We say then, we will just go back to the old
statement-Christ did not die so as beyond a doubt to secure the salvation of
anybody, did He? You must say "No;" you are obliged to say so, for you
believe that even after a man has been pardoned, he may yet fall from grace and
perish. Now, who is it that limits the death of Christ? Why you... We say
Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no
man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are
saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being
anything but saved. You are welcome to your atonement; you may keep it. We will
never renounce ours for the sake of it. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermon 181, New
Park Street Pulpit,
IV, p. 135)
I would rather
believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was
intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody,
except the will of men be added to it. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, Vol. 4, p. 70)
A redemption
which pays a price, but does not ensure that which is purchased -- a redemption
which calls Christ a substitute for the sinner, but yet which allows the person
to suffer - is altogether unworthy of our apprehensions of Almighty God. It
offers no homage to his wisdom, and does despite to his covenant faithfulness.
We could not and would not receive such a travesty of divine truth as that
would be. There is no ground for any comfort whatever in it. (Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, Sermons,
Vol. 49, p. 39)
CHARLES SPURGEON
QUOTES ON CHRIST
AS CONQUERING KING
Jesus...here
[in Psalm 2]...declares that His very enemies are His inheritance... He
declares this decree..., He [the Father] hath given Me this, not only the right
to be a king, but the power to conquer... Jehovah hath given to His Anointed a
rod of iron with which He shall break rebellious nations in[to] pieces...
All the ends of
the World shall remember and turn unto the Lord; and all the kindreds of the
nations shall worship before Him [Psalm 22:27]... Conversion work has hitherto
been circumscribed within certain parts of the World. But the time will come
when all the kindreds of the Earth shall worship. These hopes are not the
flight of an ardent imagination. They are founded on the true sayings of God...
The universal triumph of Christianity [is] certain...
Where Jesus
reigns in power, men must rend obeisance [Psalm 72:5f]... His Kingdom...is as
lasting as the lights of heaven. Days and nights will cease, before He
abdicates His throne...The Kingdom of Jesus...is but in its youth, and is
evidently the coming power, the rising sun. Would to God that fresh vigour were
imparted to all its citizens to push at once the conquests of Immanuel to the uttermost
ends of the Earth...
Even at this
hour, we have before us the tokens of His eternal power. Since He ascended to
His throne eighteen hundred years ago, His dominion has not been overturned
though the mightiest of empires have gone like visions of the night...
Widespread
shall be the rule of Messiah. Only the Land's End shall end His territory. To
the Ultima Thule, shall His sceptre be extended. From Pacific to Atlantic, and
from Atlantic to Pacific, He shall be Lord and the oceans which surround each
pole, shall be beneath His sway. All other power shall be subordinate to His.
No rival nor antagonist shall He know...
Messiah's
Kingdom shall reach on to the utmost bounds of the round World... So shall the
Son of David rule all lands given Him...and leave no nation to pine beneath the
tyranny of the [devilish] prince....
The white
cliffs of Britain already own [or acknowledge] Him. The gems of the Southern
Sea glitter for Him. Even Iceland's heart is warm with His love. Madagascar
leaps to receive Him... Foreign princes from inland regions as yet unexplored,
shall own the all-embracing monarchy of the King of kings...
The extent of
the mediatorial rule, is set forth by the two far-reaching alls - all kings,
and all nations. We see not as yet all things put under Him. But since we see
Jesus crowned with glory and honour in Heaven we are altogether without doubt
as to His universal monarchy on Earth. Every knee shall bow to Him, and every
tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Hasten it, O Lord, in Thine Own time!...
All nations
whom Thou has made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord; and shall
glorify Thy Name [Psalm 86:9]... The people who have been so long deceived,
shall at last discover Thy greatness, and shall render Thee the worship which
is Thy due. Thou has created them all, and unto Thee shall they all yield
homage... One day, all men would acknowledge the Lord to be the only God... We
are sure the majority will be with us tomorrow...
David was not a
believer in the theory that the World will grow worse and worse, and that the
dispensation will wind up with general darkness and idolatry. Earth's sun is to
go down amid tenfold night if some of our prophetic brethren are to be
believed.
Not so do we
expect! But we look for a day when the dwellers in all lands shall learn
righteousness; shall trust in the Saviour; shall worship thee alone, O God, and
shall glorify Thy Name! The modern notion has greatly damped the seal of the
Church for missions; and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural, the better
for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor
inspires the Church with ardour. Far hence be it driven!
In Psalm 110,
Jesus is placed in the seat of power, dominion and dignity and is to sit there
by divine appointment, while Jehovah fights for Him and lays every rebel
beneath His feet. He sits there by the Father's ordinance and call, and will
sit there despite all the raging of His adversaries till they are all brought
to utter shame by His putting His foot upon their necks... The work of subduing
the nations is now in the hand of the great God Who by His Providence will
accomplish it to the glory of His Son...
Let us never
fear as to the future! While we see our Lord and Representative sitting in
quiet expectancy we too may sit in the attitude of peaceful assurance and with
confidence await the grand outcome of all events. As surely as Jehovah liveth
Jesus must reign, yea, even now He is reigning, though all His enemies are not
yet subdued... Those rebels who now stand high in power, shall soon be in the
place of contempt. They shall be His footstool. He shall with ease rule them.
He shall sit and put His foot on them...
It is in and
through the Church that for the present the power of the Messiah is known.
Jehovah has given to Jesus all authority in the midst of His people whom He
rules with His royal sceptre. And this power goes forth with divine energy from
the Church for the ingathering of the elect and the subduing of all evil... In
consequence of the sending forth of the rod of Strengthnamely, the power of the
Gospel, out of Zion [alias the Christian Church-FNL] converts will come forward
in great numbers to enlist under the banner of the Priest-King...
He shall judge
among the Heathen or, among the nations. All nations shall feel His power and
either yield to it joyfully, or be crushed before it... Pope and priest must
fall with Mahomet and other deceivers who are now heads of the people. Jesus
must reign and they must perish!
Spirit of God,
bring back Thy Church to a belief in the Gospel! Bring back her Ministers to
preach it once again with the Holy Ghost and not striving after wit and
learning! Then shall we see Thine arm made bare, O God, in the eyes of all the
people. And the myriads shall be brought to rally round the throne of God and
the Lamb. The Gospel must succeed. It shall succeed. It cannot be prevented
from succeeding. A multitude that no man can number, must be saved...
The light of
the doctrines of grace shall yet again shine forth as the sun. Elijah was wont
to say: As the Lord liveth, before Whom I stand. And this also is my
confidence. Truth lives, because God lives. Though truth were dead and buried, it
would rise again. The day is not far distant when the old, old Gospel shall
again command the scholarship of the age and shall direct the thoughts of men.
I myself
believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished... I
expect the same power which turned the World upside down once, will still
continue to do it. The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest
upon His Holy Name that He was not able to convert the World. Christ will have
the whole Earth... God will not be disappointed of His purpose. This ruined
World shall yet sing His praises... The whole of His creatures shall magnify
His Holy Name...
Satan... seems
to say today: Thou King of kings! Take England for Thyself; and America be
Thine! Here and there, Thou shalt take an island or a city but let me have the
masses of mankind! I will be lord of China's teeming multitudes; and India
shall lie within my coils. Brethren, shall it be so? Shall it be so? Are you
content in your Master's Name to resign those mighty empires to the prince of
darkness? Unanimous your hearts speak out your Master's language it must not,
and it shall not be! The tramp of Christian heroes shall yet shake those
nations. And the trumpet of Jubilee shall proclaim liberty to the bondaged sons
of Adam that are weeping there. They must, they shall belong to Christ!...
Soldiers of
Christ, to the battle, to the battle! All the line, all the rampart must be
stormed. Not a single castle must be left in the possession of the enemy. We
must dash him down from his hills, and rend him up from his valleys. He must
not have a single spot whereon to place his foot...
I see the
Icelanders bowing before Christ, and the vilest and most depraved of men
submitting to Jehovah's sway. But Satan has one dark-souled being the last man
that is left unconverted. Ring your sabbath bells, my brethren! Go up to your
house of prayer! Be happy!... Not a hoof shall be left behind!... Christ has
conquered, and has taken back all His possessions. Not a hoof shall be left
behind!
Let the whole
militant Church of Christ be blessed; put power into all faithful ministries;
convert this country; save it from abounding sin; let all the Nations of the
Earth know the Lord... Bring the Church to break down all bonds of nationality,
all limits of sects, and may we feel the blessed unity which is the very glory
of the Church of Christ! Yea, let the whole Earth be filled with His glory! Our
prayer can never cease until we reach this point: Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be
done, on Earth as it is in Heaven! Nothing less than this can we ask for.
And it shall
come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;
and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye,
and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of
Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he
shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
(Isa. 2:2-4).
(All the quotes
above by C.H. Spurgeon, on Christ as Conquering King, were supplied to Still
Waters Revival Books by Dr Francis Nigel Lee).
CHARLES SPURGEON
QUOTES ON CHRISTMAS
We have no
superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the
present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not
believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin
or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever
for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its
observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. (Charles
Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871).
When it can be
proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish
festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them,
but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as
to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric,
"Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it
is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. (from Charles
Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4.)
- For many free
online resources exhibiting the Puritan, Reformed, Presbyterian and Covenanter
testimony against Pagan and Roman Catholic holy days like Christmas and Easter
please visit Still Waters Revival Books' web page at http://www.swrb.com/newslett/FREEBOOK/holyday.htm.
CHARLES SPURGEON QUOTATIONS
ON SEPARATION
"Numbers
of good brethren in different ways remain in fellowship with those who are
undermining the Gospel; and they talk of their conduct as though it were a
loving course which the Lord will approve of in the day of His appearing. We
cannot understand them. The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who
profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the
fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them. To stay in a
community which fellowships all beliefs in the hope of setting matters right is
as though Abraham had stayed at Ur. Or at Haran, in the hope of converting the
household out of which he was called.
Complicity with
error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest
against it. If any body of believers had errorists among them, but were
resolute to deal with them in the name of the Lord, all might come right; but
confederacies founded upon the principle that all may enter, whatever views
they hold, are based upon disloyalty to the truth of God. If truth is optional,
error is justifiable.
At any rate,
cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from
the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty. I have raised my
protest in the only complete way by coming forth, and I shall be content to
abide alone until the day when the Lord shall judge the secrets of all hearts;
but it will not seem to me a strange thing if others are found faithful, and if
others judge that for them also there is no path but that which is painfully
apart from the beaten track. "Now I beseech you. brethren. mark them which
cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned;
and avoid them." (Romans 16:17). (C. H. Spurgeon, 1888).
"For there
is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the
plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. Christianity was born for endurance; not
an exotic, but a hardy plant, braced by the keen wind; not languid, nor
childish, nor cowardly. It walks with strong step and erect frame; it is
kindly, but firm; it is gentle, but honest; it is calm, but not facile;
obliging, but not imbecile; decided, but not churlish. It does not fear to
speak the stern word of condemnation against error, nor to raise its voice
against surrounding evils, under the pretext it is not of this world; it does
not shrink from giving honest reproof, lest it come under the charge of
displaying an unchristian spirit. It calls sin sin, on whomsoever it is found,
and would rather risk the accusation of being actuated by a bad spirit than not
discharge an explicit duty. Let us not misjudge strong words used in honest
controversy.
Out of the heat
a viper may come forth; but we shake it off and feel no harm. The religion of
both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against
evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is
not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness. If
anyone should be frank, manly, honest, cheerful (I do not say blunt or rude,
for a Christian must be courteous and polite); it is he who has tasted that the
Lord is gracious, and is looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of
God. I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call
evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies,
because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit;
crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though
exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of
attainment." (Spurgeon citing Horatius Bonar)
"Long ago
I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. I
have faith in the Lord Jesus for myself, -- a faith burned into me as with a
hot iron. I thank God, what I believe I shall believe, even if I believe it
alone". (C.H. Spurgeon, October 16, 1887).
"Believers
in Christ's atonement are now in declared union with those who make light of
it; believers in Holy Scripture are in confederacy with those who deny plenary
inspiration; those who hold evangelical doctrine are in open alliance with
those who call the fall a fable, who deny the personality of the Holy Ghost,
who call justification by faith immoral, and hold that there is another
probation after death. Yes, we have before us the wretched spectacle of
professedly orthodox Christians publicly avowing their union with those who
deny the faith, and scarcely concealing their contempt for those who cannot be
guilty of such gross disloyalty to Christ. To be very plain, we are unable to
call these things Christian Unions, they begin to look like Confederacies in
Evil… It is our solemn conviction that where there can be no real spiritual communion
there should be no pretense of fellowship. Fellowship with known and vital
error is participation in sin." (C.H. Spurgeon, November 1887, The
Sword and the Trowel).
"For
Christians to be linked in association with ministers who do not preach the gospel
of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of
whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any
scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it
is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the
preservation of 'Christian unity.' It is error which breaks the unity of
churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is
to support schism," (C.H. Spurgeon, The Forgotten Spurgeon, Iain Murray, pp.
164-165).
"That
argument I have heard hundreds of times when people have been urged to come out
of false positions and do the right. But what have you and I to do with
maintaining our influence and position at the expense of truth? It is never
right to do a little wrong to obtain the greatest possible good . . . Your duty
is to do the right: consequences are with God," (Charles H. Spurgeon,
1868, Sermon at Metropolitan Tabernacle).
"Failure
at a crucial moment may mar the entire outcome of a life. A man who has enjoyed
special light is made bold to follow in the way of the Lord, and is annointed
to guide others therein. He rises into a place of love and esteem among the
godly, and this promotes his advancement among men, What then? The temptation
comes to be careful of the position he has gained, and to do nothing to
endanger it. The man, so lately a faithful man of God, compromises with
worldlings, and to quiet his own conscience invents a theory by which such
compromises are justified, even commended. He receives the praises of the
judicious- he has, in truth, gone over to the enemy. The whole force of his
former life now tells upon the wrong side To avoid such an end it becomes us ever
to stand fast." (Charles H. Spurgeon, 1888, Sword and the Trowel).
"Ah, my
dear brethren there are many that are deceived by this method of reasoning.
They remain where their conscience tells them they ought not to be, because,
they say, they are more useful than they would be if they went 'without the
camp'. This is doing evil that good may come, and can never be tolerated by an
enlightened conscience. If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold,
I have no right to do it; and if an act of righteousness would appear likely to
destroy all my apparent usefulness, I am yet to do it. It is yours and mine to
do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever
the consequence may be, 'That is strong meat,' do you say? Be strong men, then,
and feed thereon". (Charles Spurgeon, Sermons 1891).
"As soon
as I saw, or thought I saw, that error had become firmly established, I did not
deliberate, but quitted the body at once. Since then my counsel has been 'Come
out from among them'. I have felt that no protest could be equal to that of
separation." (Charles Spurgeon, The Sword and Trowel).
We hope you enjoyed the quotes
above by C.H. Spurgeon. We consider it a delightful compilation of Spurgeon's
words which are not only in keeping with the footsteps of the older Puritan and
Reformation flock of the Lord (which Spurgeon clearly loved), but which are
also in agreement with Scripture -- or that system of doctrine sometimes
nicknamed "Calvinism." The quotes on limited atonement are especially
insightful and should help refute the anti-Calvinistic nonsense spread by Dave
Hunt (e.g., that Spurgeon did not believe in particular redemption) and others.
Also, whether Spurgeon was a postmillennialist or not can be debated elsewhere,
but the quotes provided here prove that these parts of his teaching were in
accordance with the postmillennialism of the Bible. We also do not doubt that
Spurgeon equivocated concerning his testimony regarding Christmass, thus we
have included only his comments on this subject which are in harmony with Holy
Scripture (no fairy tales, magic wands, or going with the flow of men's
thoughts here).
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