Charles Spurgeon
“God’s Fatherly Pity”: C.H. Spurgeon vs the Schoolmen on Divine Impassibility
C. H. Spurgeon, “God’s Fatherly Pity,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 28 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1882), 157–158. Headings in the post below are mine.
Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. (Psalm 103:13)
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“Spurgeon understood that depression isn’t always logical and its cause is not always clear.”
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Spurgeon: “As well fight with the mist as with this shapeless, undefinable, yet, all-beclouding hopelessness.
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Good Judgment
Sermon No. 2688, intended for reading on Lord’s-Day, August 19, 1900. Delivered by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, on Thursday evening, July 21, 1881
“You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according unto Your Word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed Your Commandments.” – Psalm 119:65, 66.
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Joy Born at Bethlehem
Sermon 1026, delivered on Lord’s-Day morning, December 24th,1871 by C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
“And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” — Luke 2:10-12.
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