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Trumpet Calls to Christian Energy; A Collection of Sermons
Trumpet Calls to Christian Energy A Collection of Sermons Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 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 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of th Holy Ghost." -- ! Thess. i. 4-6. T the very announcement of the text some will be ready to say, " Why preach upon so profound a doctrine as election 1" I answer, because it is in God's word, and whatever is in the Word of God is to be preached. " But some truths ought to be kept back from the people," say some persons, "lest they should make an ill use thereof." Popish doctrine I I reply, for it was upon this theory that the priests kept back the Bible from the people, lest they should misuse the truth as it is in Jesus. " But are not some doctrines dangerous?" No, I answer, not if they be true. Truth is never dangerous, it is error and reticence that are fraught with peril. " But do not men misuse the doctrines of grace? " I grant you they do; but if we should destroy everything that men misuse, we should have nothing left. Arc there to be no ropes because some fools will hang themselves ? and must cutlery be for ever driven from the earth because there are some who will usedangerous weapons for the destruction of their adversaries ? Decidedly not. Besides, let me reply to you, men do read the Scriptures and think about these doctrines, and therefore often make mistakes about them; who then shall set them right if we, who preach the Word hold our tongues about the matter ? I know that some men have embraced the doctrine of election an...« less