His sermons were printed in the London papers weekly. Spurgeon preached there from 1861 to 1891, shortly before his death. The congregation also outgrew several other venues until finally the Metropolitan Tabernacle, which seated 6,000, was built specifically for this purpose. Within a few weeks, many conversions resulted from Spurgeon’s preaching, and the church building could not accommodate the crowds. In 1854, before he was 20 years old, he became the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel, a Baptist church in London.
Rejecting Congregational teaching, Spurgeon was baptized as a believer and began to serve in a Baptist church. He came to faith in 1850 while listening to a Primitive Methodist Preacher. Spurgeon was the son and grandson of Congregational ministers. He was the most popular preacher of his time and is still known as “the Prince of Preachers.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) was an influential Baptist preacher in England. Packer quotes from this message in Knowing God. Spurgeon at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. It is to that subject that I invite you this morning.Įxcerpted from “The Immutability of God,” A sermon by Charles H. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead. Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead’s deepest sea be lost in his immensity and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.
Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.Īnd, while humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatory. The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe. Other subjects we can grapple with in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass’s colt and with solemn exclamation, “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God.īut while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. It has been said that “the proper study of mankind is man.” I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God’s elect is God the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. This is the introduction to his sermon about God:
Note from Randy: 160 years ago, on January 7, 1855, a pastor in England rose to preach.
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