Historical Writings

  • Faith’s Dawn and Its Clouds

    Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, January 28th, 1872, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 'And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.''Mark 9:24. LAST SABBATH MORNING we treated upon the way by which faith comes to the soul. 'Faith cometh…

  • The Two Yokes

    Delivered on Lord's Day Evening, January 14th, 1872, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 'Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.''Jeremiah 28:13. ALL THROUGH THE BOOK of Jeremiah you will observe that the prophet taught the people not only…

  • How Can I Obtain Faith?

    Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, January 21st, 1872, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 'So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.''Romans 10:17. IT IS DIFFICULT to make men understand that the salvation of the gospel is not by works but entirely by grace, that it is…

  • The Pilgrim’s Longings

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 'And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for…

  • A Call to Holy Living

    Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, January 14th, 1872, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 'What do ye more than others?''Matthew 5:47. IT IS A VERY GREAT FAULT in any ministry if the doctrine of justification by faith alone be not most clearly taught. I will go further, and add, that it is…