Historical Writings

  • The God of the Aged

    A Sermon (No. 81) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 25, 1856, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. The substance of which was also delivered at Stambourne, Essex, on the commemoration of the Jubilee of his Grandfather, the REV. JAMES SPURGEON, Tuesday 27th May. 1856. "Even to your old age I…

  • Christ Our Passover

    A Sermon (No. 54) Delivered on Sabbath Evening, December 2, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us."–1 Corinthians 5:7. THE more you read the Bible, and the more you meditate upon it, the more you will be astonished with it. He…

  • Healing for the Wounded

    A Sermon (No. 53) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 11, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds."–Psalm 147:3. The next verse finely declares the power of God. "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them by their…

  • Free Will–A Slave

    A Sermon (No. 52) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 2, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life."–John 5:40. This is one of the great guns of the Arminians, mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged…

  • Comfort for the Desponding

    A Sermon (No. 51) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 25, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "Oh that I were as in months past."–Job 29:2. FOR THE MOST part the gracious Shepherd leads his people beside the still waters, and makes them to lie down in green pastures; but…