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"I
believe
that,
at
this
present
time,
we
are
in
great
danger
of
being
burdened
with
a
crowd
of
so-called
converts
who
do
not
really
know
anything
as
it
ought
to
be
known.
They
attended
a
revival
meeting,
were
much
excited,
and
thought
they
were
converted;
but
just
ask
them
to
explain
to
you
the
simplest
truths
of
the
gospel,
and
you
will
soon
discover
how
little
they
know.
Could
they
explain
the
three
R's,
ruin,
redemption,
and
regeneration.
Do
they
know
what
the
ruin
is?
Do
they
know
what
the
remedy
for
that
ruin
is?
Do
they
understand
at
all
what
it
means
to
be
born
again?
Do
they
comprehend
what
the
new
nature
is,
or
what
"justification
by
faith"
means.
Perhaps
someone
says,
"They
do
not
comprehend
your
theological
terms."
I do
not
mind
whether
they
know
the
meaning
of
the
terms
that
are
familiar
to
many
of
us;
but
do
they
know
the
truths
themselves?
There
is a
certain
degree
of
Christian
knowledge
which
is
absolutely
necessary
to
salvation."
(ca.1860)
—Charles
H.
Spurgeon
SPURGEON BIOGRAPHY,
W. Y. Fullerton
SPURGEON BIOGRAPHY,
Russel H. Conwell, 1892
MRS. P.H. SPURGEON,
Charles
Ray
SPURGEON'S QUOTES
SPURGEON ON AUDIO
SPURGEON ON CD
SPURGEON ON:
BAPTIST HISTORY
BAPTIST PERPETUITY
MORNING AND EVENING,
SEARCHABLE VERSION
MORNING AND EVENING,
ZIPPED 3.1,
VERSION ONLY
MORNING AND EVENING,
ZIPPED WIN 95/98 VERSION ONLY
SWORD AND TROWEL
COVER FROM
FIRST ISSUE,
ZIPPED COVER
INDEX OF
ISSUES,
(excerpts)
SPURGEON'S SERMONS -
Sermons are in part
from:
NEW PARK
STREET CHAPEL
EXETER HALL, STRAND
METROPOLITAN
TABERNACLE
MUSIC HALL,
ROYAL SURREY
GARDENS
EXPOSITIONAL
SERMONS
HANDWRITTEN
SERMON NOTES ON MARK 16:14
CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING
OF ALL SERMONS
CHARLES SPURGEON: PREACHING THROUGH
ADVERSITY
A superb article by John Piper from
the Southern Baptist
TREASURY OF DAVID
SPURGEON'S LOVE FOR THE PURITANS
DOCUMENTS FROM THE DOWNGRADE
CONTROVERSY
A collection of documents on the
controversy that dominated Spurgeon's final years (Mostly taken from The Sword and the
Trowel). Plus an appendix on the history of the Down-Grade from John MacArthur's
best-selling book Ashamed of the Gospel.
SPURGEON
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 surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is
in Christ Jesus. By this truth I make a 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. Were I a Pelagian, or a believer in the doctrine of free-will, I should
have to walk for centuries all alone. Here and there a heretic, of no very honorable
character, might rise up and call me brother. But 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.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
A DEFENCE OF CALVINISM,
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A
REFUTATION OF SPURGEON'S EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE
by Dan Corner
SPURGEON'S
CATECHISM
"I am persuaded that the use of a
good Catechism in all our families will be a great safeguard against the increasing errors
of the times, and therefore I have compiled this little manual from the Westminster
Assembly's and Baptist Catechisms, for the use of my own church and congregation. Those
who use it in their families or classes must labour to explain the sense; but the words
should be carefully learned by heart, for they will be understood better as years pass.
May the Lord bless my dear friends and their families evermore, is the prayer of their
loving Pastor. C. H. Spurgeon"
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT SPURGEON
SONGS
BY SPURGEON
SPURGEON'S WRITINGS
GEESE IN THEIR HOODS
ALL OF GRACE
COMMENTING &
COMMENTARIES
AROUND THE WICKET GATE - The Spurgeon Archive
AN
ALL-ROUND MINISTRY - The Spurgeon Archive
ECCENTRIC PREACHERS
- The Spurgeon Archive
A MARVELLOUS MINISTRY
- The Spurgeon Archive
SPURGEON INTERNATIONAL
GERMAN
FRENCH
CHECKOSLOVAKIAN
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century.
In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of
London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian
John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to
Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering
more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861 the
congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Spurgeon's printed works are voluminous, and those provided here are only a
sampling of his best-known works, including his magnum opus, The Treasury of Daivd. Nearly
all of Spurgeon's printed works are still in print and available from Pilgrim
Publications, PO Box 66, Pasadena, TX 77501.
"Mr.
Spurgeon's magnum opus, The TREASURY OF DAVID, which occupied over twenty years of the
author's busy life, is too well known to need any lengthy description. The comments and
expositions abound in rich, racy, and suggestive remarks, and they have a strong flavour
of the homiletic and practical exposition with which Mr. Spurgeon is accustomed to
accompany his public reading of Holy Scripture. There is an intensity of belief, a fulness
of assent to the great points of Calvinistic orthodoxy which our author would not be true
to himself if he attempted to conceal. The brief introductions are very well done, and the
abundant apparatus criticus, the list of hundreds of writers on the Psalms, whose
meditations have been laid under contribution to enrich the work, render this commentary
one of the most voluminous in existence. At all events, the volumes will be an
encyclopaedia of reference." — [British Quarterly Review]
CHARLES SPURGEON'S
MILLENNIAL VIEW
"I am not now going into millennial
theories, or into any speculation as to dates. I do not know anything at all about such
things, and I am not sure that I am called to spend my time in such researches. I am
rather called to minister the gospel than to open prophecy. Those who are wise in such
things doubtless prize their wisdom, but I have not the time to acquire it, nor any
inclination to leave soul-winning pursuits for less arousing themes. I believe it is a
great deal better to leave many of these promises, and many of these gracious out-looks of
believers, to exercise their full force upon our minds, without depriving them of their
simple glory by aiming to discover dates and figures. Let this be settled, however, that
if there be meaning in words, Israel is yet to be restored. Israel is to have a SPIRITUAL
RESTORATION or a CONVERSION." [from The Restoration & Conversion of the Jews MTP
Vol 10, Year 1864, pg. 429, Ezekiel 37:1-10 (age 30)]
TRR Note: Christians have attempted to
defend their millennial position by quoting Spurgeon. Mr. Spurgeon would have never
condoned human authority for interpreting divine revelation. Mr. Spurgeon's view is
only that; "His View". It does not represent or speak for the whole of
Christianity, but is worthy of attention.
CHARLES SPURGEON ON ECCLESIASTICAL SEPARATION
“It now becomes a serious question
how far those who abide by the faith once delivered to the saints should fraternize with
those who have turned aside to another gospel. Christian love has its claims, and
divisions are to be shunned as grievous sins, but how far are we justified in being in
confederacy with those who are departing from the truth? It is a difficult question to
answer so as to keep the balances of the duties.
For the present it behooves believers to be cautious, lest they lend their support and
countenance to the betrayers of the Lord. It is one thing to overleap all boundaries of
denominational restriction for the truth’s sake, this we hope all godly men will do
more. It is quite another policy which would urge us to subordinate the maintenance of
truth to denominational prosperity and unity. Numbers of easy-minded people wink at error
so long as it is committed by a clever man and a good-natured brother, who has many fine
points about him. Let each believer judge for himself; but, for our part, we have put on a
few fresh bolts to our door, and we have given orders to keep the chain up, for under the
color of begging the friendship of the servant, there are those about who aim at robbing
the MASTER. We fear it is hopeless ever to form a society which can keep out men base
enough to profess one thing and believe another; but it might be possible to make an
informal alliance among all who hold the Christianity of their fathers. Little as they
might be able do, they could at least protest, and as far as possible free themselves of
that complicity which will be involved in a conspiracy of silence.”
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