Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Come on let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did…
Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "I myself will awake early."–Psalms 42:8. The proper subject to treat upon with such a text would be the propriety and excellence of early rising, especially when we are desirous of praising or serving God. The dew of dawn should be consecrated to devotion. The…
Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."–John 10:27. CHRISTIANS ARE HERE compared to sheep. Not a very flattering comparison you may say; but then we do not wish to be flattered, nor would our Lord deem it good to…
Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!"–1 Chron. 4:10. WE know very little about Jabez, except that he was more honorable than his brethren, and that he was called Jabez because his mother bare him with sorrow. It will sometimes happen that where there is…
Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?"–Jeremiah 15:12. THE prophet Jeremiah was, as we saw upon a former occasion, a man of exquisitely sensitive character; not a prophet of iron, like Elijah, but nearer akin to him who was a man of sorrows…
Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord."–Isaiah 66:21. THIS chapter is surrounded with critical difficulties, and yet it is full of spiritual instruction. The verse before us is by some referred to Gentiles, and supposed to mean…
