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Sermons of the Rev. C.h. Spurgeon 1-10th Series
Sermons of the Rev Ch Spurgeon 110th Series Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Sheldon Subjects: Baptists Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Baptist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you ... more »buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON I. SOVEREIGNTY AND SALVATION. " Look onto me, and be ye lared, ill the end of the earth: for I am God, nd tkit, u cone else." -- I-i i A ' xlv, 22. Six years ago to-day, as near as possible at this very hour of the day, I was " in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity," but had yet, by divine grace, been led to feel the bitterness of tljat bondage, and to cry out by reason of the soreness of its slavery. Seeking rest, and finding none, I stepped within the house of God, and sat there, afraid to look upward, lest I should be utterly cut off, and lest his fierce wrath should consume me. The minister rose in his pulpit. ' and, as I have done this morning, read this text," Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." I looked that moment; the grace of faith was vouchsafed to me in the self-same instant; and now I think I can say with truth, " Ere since by faith I saw the stream His flowing -wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die." I shall never forget that day, while memory holds it place; nor can I help repeating this text whenever 1 remember that hour when first I knew the Lord. How strangely gracious! How wonderfully and marvellously kind, that he who heard these words so little time ago for his own soul's profit, should now address you this morning as his hearers from the same text, in the full and confident hope that some poor sinner within these walls ma...« less