Historical Writings

  • The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

    A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1874, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Hebrews 3:7. THE peculiar circumstances in which we are now placed as a congregation demand of me that my discourses…

  • Counting the Cost

    A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1874, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first, and counts the cost, whether he has sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to…

  • Shiloh

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Until Shiloh comes; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." Genesis 49:10. THE dying Patriarch was speaking of his own son, Judah, but while speaking of Judah, he had a special eye to our Lord, who sprang from the tribe of Judah….

  • Rubbish

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "There is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall" Nehemiah 4:10. REMEMBER that Jerusalem had been totally destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and what is meant by the destruction by the Babylonians may be inferred from the vast heaps of the dust…

  • The Chariots Of Amminadib

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Before I was even aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib." Song of Solomon 6:12. WE cannot be quite sure at this date what these chariots of Amminadib were to which the Inspired poet here refers. Some suppose that he may have…

  • Daniel Facing the Lions’ Den

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the [1]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime"—…