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Charles H. Spurgeon. Struggles of Conscience. Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, April 23rd, 2014. 29 pp.
5 out of 5
This booklet is from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon that he preached on September 23, 1860 based in part upon Job 13:23 (it is a more topical sermon in the way that Spurgeon often gets a textual preacher from one verse). This year I have been reading more of Spurgeon and I must say thus far this is one of my favorite work that has been made available through Chapel Library. Here in this work Spurgeon tackles on the problem that some have that one must have a deeper sense of feelings of their sinfulness before they would repent and turn towards Christ. Anyone who knows Spurgeon knows he loves the Puritans but here he does fault some Puritans for making the mistake of confusing post-conversion “feelings” must manifest before one come to saving faith in Christ. At times some of these preachers make their own experience to be the litmus test of true conversion. In tackling this problem and objection towards the Gospel we see a display of the “classic Spurgeon” in which his message is pastorally directed towards the heart, is Gospel driven, biblical, practical, illustrative and dripping with memorable one-liners.
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