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The Immutability of God
It has been said by some one that "the proper study of mankind is man." I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study...
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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1 (1855)
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The Remembrance of Christ
IT SEEMS, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning him whom gratitude and affection should...
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The Sin of Unbelief
ONE WISE man may deliver a whole city; one good man may be the means of safety to a thousand others.
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The Personality of the Holy Ghost
You will be surprised to hear me announce that I do not intend this morning to say anything about the Holy Spirit as the Comforter.
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The Comforter
Good old Simeon called Jesus the consolation of Israel; and so he was. Before his actual appearance, his name was the Day-Star; cheering the darkness, and...
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Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints
Babbling fame ever loves to talk of one man or another. Some there be whose glory it trumpets forth, and whose honor it extols above the heavens.
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Christ Crucified
What contempt hath God poured upon the wisdom of this world! How hath he brought it to nought, and made it appear as nothing.
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Spiritual Liberty
LIBERTY is the birthright of every man. He may be born a pauper; he may be a foundling; his parentage may be altogether unknown; but liberty is his...
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The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints
MUSIC HATH Charms." I am sure sacred music has; for I have felt something of its charms whilst we have been singing that glorious hymn just now.
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The People's Christ
ORIGINALLY, I have no doubt, these words referred to David. He was chosen out of the people.
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The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved
The sleep of the body is the gift of God. So said Homer of old, when he described it as descending from the clouds and resting on the tents of the warriors...
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Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings
SEEK ye rest from your distresses ye children of woe and sorrow ? This is the place where ye may lighten your burden, and lose your cares.
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The Victory of Faith
THE epistles of John are perfumed with love. The word is continually occurring. while the Spirit enters into every sentence.
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The Bible
This is God's complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of his goodness, that he stoops to rebuke his erring creatures; it is a great argument of his...
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Paul's First Prayer
GOD has many methods of quenching persecution. He will not suffer his church to be injured by its enemies, or overwhelmed by its foes; and he is not short...
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Joseph Attacked by the Archers
It must have been a fine sight to see the hoary-headed Jacob sitting up in his bed whilst he bestowed his parting benediction upon his twelve sons.
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The Tomb of Jesus
Every circumstance connected with the life of Christ is deeply interesting to the Christian mind.
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David's Dying Song
THESE be the last words of David; so we read at the commencement of the chapter. Many have been the precious sentences which have fallen front his inspired...
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The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God
This is a very solemn indictment which the Apostle Paul here prefers against the carnal mind.
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Christ's People--Imitators of Him
BEHOLD! what a change divine grace will work in a man, and in how short a time. That same Peter, who so lately followed his master afar off, and with oaths...
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A Caution to the Presumptuous
IT is a singular fact, but nevertheless most certain, that the vices are the counterfeits of virtues.
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Thoughts on the Last Battle
While the Bible is one of the most poetical of books, though its language is unutterably sublime, yet we must remark how constantly it is true to nature.
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Forgiveness
THERE ARE SOME passages of sacred writ which have been more abundantly blessed to the conversion of souls than others.
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The Hope of Future Bliss
IT WOULD be difficult to say to which the gospel owes most, to its friends or to its enemies.
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The Two Effects of the Gospel
THESE ARE THE words of Paul, speaking on the behalf of himself and his brethren the Apostles, and they are true concerning all those who by the Spirit are...
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The Eternal Name
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...
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The Church of Christ
THE chapter (Ezek. 34) that I read at the commencement of the service is a prophetical one; and, I take it, it has relation, not to the condition of the...
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Christ Manifesting Himself to His People
WHAT A BLESSED Master Jesus Christ was! How familiar did he allow his disciples to make themselves with him!
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The Power of the Holy Ghost
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...
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The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
NIGHT APPEARS to be a time peculiarly favorable to devotion. Its solemn stillness helps to free the mind from that perpetual din which the cares of the...
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The Necessity of Increased Faith
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 had need of such a...
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A Wise Desire
THE CHRISTIAN IS ALWAYS pleased and delighted when he can see Christ in the Scriptures.
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Preach the Gospel
THE greatest man of Apostolic times was the apostle Paul. He was always great in everything.
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God's People in the Furnace
WHEN travelling through the country, you have often noticed that in different spots the old rocks peep out from under the soil, as if they would let us know...
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What Are the Clouds?
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; and,...
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Law and Grace
There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation which exists between the law and the gospel.
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Storming the Battlements
WE HAVE BEEN talking very freely during this last week of "glorious victories," of "brilliant successes," of "sieges," and of "stormings." We little know...
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Heaven and Hell
This is a land where plain speaking is allowed, and where the people are willing to afford a fair hearing to any one who can tell them that which is worth...
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Election
IF there were no other text in the sacred Word except this one, I think we should all be bound to receive and acknowledge the truthfulness of the great and...
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The Death of the Christian
WE DO NOT BELIEVE all that Job's friends said. They spoke very often as uninspired men, for we find them saying many things that are not true; and if we...
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Repentance Unto Life
ONE OF THE GREATEST obstacles which the Christian religion ever overcame, was the inveterate prejudice which possessed the minds of its earliest followers.
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Conversion
THE TRUE BELIEVER is always pleased to hear of anything which concerns the salvation of his own soul.
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The Glorious Habitation
Moses was the inspired author of three devotional compositions. We first of all find him as Moses the poet, singing the song which is aptly joined with that...
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Christ's Prayer for His People
THIS PRAYER of Christ is an ever precious portion to all true believers, from the fact that each of them has an inalienable interest in it.
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Chastisement
GOD'S PEOPLE CAN never by any possibility be punished for their sins. God has punished them already in the person of Christ, Christ, their substitute, has...
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The God of Peace
PAUL ONCE ADVISED the Romans to strive. Three verses before our text he actually gives them an exhortation to strive, and yet he here utters a prayer that...
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The Holy Ghost--The Great Teacher
THIS GENERATION hath gradually, and almost imperceptibly, become to a great extent a godless generation.
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Comfort for the Desponding
FOR THE MOST part the gracious Shepherd leads his people beside the still waters, and makes them to lie down in green pastures; but at times they wander...
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Free Will--A Slave
This is one of the great guns of the Arminians, mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged with terrible noise against the poor Christians...
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Healing for the Wounded
The next verse finely declares the power of God. "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them by their names." Perhaps there is nothing which gives...