Sermon 22 - A Caution to the Presumptuous
A Sermon
(No. 22)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 13, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." --1 Cor. 10:12
IT is a singular fact, but nevertheless most certain, that the vices are the counterfeits of virtues. Whenever God sends from the mint of heaven ...read
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Sermon 23 - Thoughts on the Last Battle
A Sermon
(No. 23)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, May 13, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But, thanks be unto God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."--1 Corinthians 15:56-57.
While the Bible is one of the most poetical of ...read
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Sermon 24 - Forgiveness
A Sermon
(No. 24)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 20, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins."--Isaiah 43:25.
THERE ARE SOME passages of sacred writ which have been more abundantly blessed to the conversion o ...read
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Sermon 25 - The Hope of Future Bliss
A Sermon
(No. 25)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, May 20, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."--Psalm 17:15.
IT WOULD be difficult to say to which the gospel owes most, to its friends or to its enemies. It ...read
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Sermon 26 - The Two Effects of the Gospel
A Sermon
(No. 26)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 27, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for thes ...read
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Sermon 27 - The Eternal Name
A Sermon
(No. 27)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, May 27, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"His name shall endure for ever."--Psalm 72:17.
NO ONE HERE requires to be told that this is the name of Jesus Christ, which "shall endure for ever." Men have said of many of their works, "they shall endure for ever;" bu ...read
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Sermon 28 - The Church of Christ
A Sermon
(No. 28)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 3, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing."--Ezekiel 34:26.
THE chapter (Ezek. 34) that ...read
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Sermon 29 - Christ Manifesting Himself to His People
A Sermon
(No. 29)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 10, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?"--John 14:22.
WHAT A BLESSED Master Jesus Christ was! How familiar did he allow his dis ...read
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Sermon 30 - The Power of the Holy Ghost
A Sermon
(No. 30)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 17, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"The power of the Holy Ghost."--Romans 15:13.
POWER is the special and peculiar prerogative of God, and God alone. "Twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God." God is God; and power belongeth ...read
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Sermon 31 - The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
A Sermon
(No. 31)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 24, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"With my soul have I desired thee in the night."--Isaiah 26:9.
NIGHT APPEARS to be a time peculiarly favorable to devotion. Its solemn stillness helps to free the mind from that perpetual din which the car ...read
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Sermon 32 - The Necessity of Increased Faith
A Sermon
(No. 32)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 1, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"And the apostle said unto the Lord, increase our faith."--Luke 17:5.
VERILY IF THE APOSTLE said this, one and all of us had need take up the prayer. If the twelve mightiest in the army of the Lord of hosts ...read
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Sermon 33 - A Wise Desire
A Sermon
(No. 33)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 8, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"He shall choose our inheritance for us."--Psalm 47:4.
THE CHRISTIAN IS ALWAYS pleased and delighted when he can see Christ in the Scriptures. If he can but detect the footstep of his lord, and discover tha ...read
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Sermon 34 - Preach the Gospel
A Sermon
(No. 34)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 5, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel."--1 Corinthians 9:16.
THE greatest man of Apostolic times was th ...read
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Sermon 35 - God's People in the Furnace
A Sermon
(No. 35)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 12, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."--Isaiah 48:10.
WHEN travelling through the country, you have often noticed that in different spots the old rocks peep out from under the soil, as if the ...read
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Sermon 36 - What Are the Clouds?
A Sermon
(No. 36)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 19, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"That clouds are the dust of his feet."--Nahum 1:3.
IT IS POSSIBLE for a man to read too many books. We will not despise learning, we will not undervalue erudition, such acquisitions are very desirable; ...read
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Sermon 37 - Law and Grace
A Sermon
(No. 37)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 26, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."--Romans 5:20.
There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation ...read
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Sermon 38 - Storming the Battlements
A Sermon
(No. 38)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 16, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord's."--Jeremiah 5:10.
WE HAVE BEEN talking very freely during this last week of "glor ...read
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Sermon 39 - Heaven and Hell + 40
A Sermon
(No. 39-40)
Delivered on Tuesday Evening, September 4, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
In a field, King Edward's Road, Hackney.
"And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out i ...read
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Sermon 41 - Election + 42
A Sermon
(No. 41-42)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 2, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the ...read
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Sermon 43 - The Death of the Christian
A Sermon
(No. 43)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 9, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."--Job 5:26.
WE DO NOT BELIEVE all that Job's friends said. They spoke very often as uninspired men, for we ...read
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