I converse with a spiritual man, and no matter But what are they? First there is a union in judgment It strikes me that the tokens of union are much more prominent than Is another sermon by Spurgeon, about seven years later. Lest someone think this is an isolated quote taken out of context, here Spurgeon says to "put in" those you "think to be a heretic"! Paul told Timothy to withdraw himself from people who differed in doctrine. The truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of With godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputesĪnd arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words,Įven the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. He who knows God hears us he who is not of God does "There are some that differ from us as wide as the poles but yet theyĪre God's children." This is the exact opposite of the words of 1 John In the above quote, speaking of a difference in doctrine, Spurgeon says, "Saints in prayer appear as one." ( The New Park Street Pulpit, Not discern some peculiarity even in their phraseology but there was none. at least, I could not tell which was which. To pray one after another, the one a Wesleyan and the other a strong Calvinist,Īnd the Wesleyan prayed the most Calvinistic prayer of the two, I do believe Some time ago at a prayer-meeting I called upon two brothers in Christ Not remarkable how very much alike all God's people are upon their knees? In, and you must put him in too, and say, "Our Father." Is it Think he is a heretic." Put him in, sir God has put him Bigot, do not kneel down, and say, "My Father," but "Ourįather." "If you please, I cannot put in Mr. Ah! There are some that differįrom us as wide as the poles but yet they are God's children. "Our Father." That then, includes those of God's children He was not only ecumenical (Jude 4) throughout his career, but his ecumenism continued on in and through the "Down-grade."Īs early as 1858 Spurgeon preached a broad way (i.e. But, the truth of the matter is, if what we now have as his writings are truly his, Spurgeon did not love the truth. Many have been taken in by Spurgeon's guise of a love for truth, both in his preaching, and in the Down-grade Controversy (on this Controversy, see point II).
Home, a colportage society, and several mission stations ( The Firstįruit of the Spirit, Pilgrim Publications, Box 66, Pasadena, TX 77501) Magazine, and founded a college for pastors, two orphanages, an old-folks His pastorate at London, Spurgeon ministered to a congregation of almostĦ000 people each Sunday, published his sermons weekly, wrote a monthly Which would not cease until 1916, twenty-four years after his death.
In January, 1855, Spurgeon published his first sermon, a practice Park Street Chapel, Southwark, London, later to become the Metropolitan His nineteenth year was installed as shepherd over the flock of the New In August of the same year, Spurgeon preached hisįirst sermon to a small gathering of farmers.Ī year later he was called to pastor a village church and in 1854 in The Christian gospel but it was not until a stormy January night in 1850 Pastors, young Spurgeon was raised in the knowledge and understanding of
He was born in Kelvedon,Įssex, England, June 19th, 1834. Was without question, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The most widely popular of English preachers in the nineteenth century
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