Historical Writings

  • The Death of the Christian

    A Sermon (No. 43) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 9, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."–Job 5:26. WE DO NOT BELIEVE all that Job's friends said. They spoke…

  • Election

    A Sermon (No. 41-42) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 2, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and…

  • Heaven and Hell

    A Sermon (No. 39-40) Delivered on Tuesday Evening, September 4, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON In a field, King Edward's Road, Hackney. "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children…

  • Storming the Battlements

    A Sermon (No. 38) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 16, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord's."–Jeremiah 5:10. WE HAVE BEEN talking very freely during this…

  • Law and Grace

    A Sermon (No. 37) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 26, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."–Romans 5:20. There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation…

  • What Are the Clouds?

    A Sermon (No. 36) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 19, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "That clouds are the dust of his feet."–Nahum 1:3. IT IS POSSIBLE for a man to read too many books. We will not despise learning, we will not undervalue erudition, such acquisitions are…