Spurgeon,
the great “soul-winner” preached without embarrassment the doctrines of grace
to the very end. In one of his later sermons at the Metropolitan Tabernacle,
preached in October 1890 he declared:
“Now brethren, we are to
praise God because all spiritual blessings have come to us in the same way as
our election came, ‘according as he hath chosen us in him.’ How did that come?
Well, it came of his free sovereign grace. He loved us
because he would love us. He chose us because he would choose us. ‘You have not
chosen me; but I have chosen you.’ If there be any virtue, if there be any
praise in us now, he put it there. To the bottomless abyss of his infinite
goodness we must trace the election of his grace.” [1]
(From History of the English Calvinistic Baptists,
p. 353)
[1] C. H.
Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit,
Vol. 38, (1892; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1991), p. 355
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All you can say is, "Amen."
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