Be not afraid at His sweet, lovely and desirable cross, for although I have not been able because of my wounds to lift up or lay down my head but as I was helped, yet I was never in better case all my life... He has so wonderfully shined on me with the sense of His redeeming, strengthening, assisting, supporting, through-bearing, pardoning and reconciling love, grace and mercy that my soul doth long to be freed of bodily infirmities and earthly organs, so that I may flee to His Royal Palace, even the Heavenly Habitation of my God, where I am sure of a crown put on my head and a palm put in my hand and a new song in my mouth, even the song of Moses and of the Lamb, so that I may bless, praise, magnify and extol Him for what He hath done to me and for me... Farewell, my children, study holiness in all your ways, and praise the Lord for what He hath done for me, and tell all my Christian friends to praise Him on my account. Farewell, sweet Bible, and wanderings and contendings for truth. Welcome, death. Welcome, the City of my God where I shall see Him and be enabled to serve Him eternally with full freedom. Welcome, blessed company, the angels and spirits of just men made perfect. But above all, welcome, welcome, welcome, our glorious and alone God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost; into Thy hands I commit my spirit, for Thou art worthy. Amen.
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Spurgeon PS1608

Spurgeon PS1608 EXPOSITION. The fear of death at one time cast its dark shadow over the soul of the Redeemer, and we read that "he was heard in that he…

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Spurgeon PS1611

Spurgeon PS1611 EXPOSITION. "_Thou wilt shew me the path of life_." To Jesus first this way was shown, for he is the first-begotten from the dead, the first-born of every…

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Spurgeon PS151

Spurgeon PS151 SUBJECT, &c.--This Psalm of David bears no dedicatory title at all indicative of the occasion upon which it was written, but it is exceedingly probable that, together with…

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Spurgeon PS152

Spurgeon PS152 EXPOSITION. THE ANSWER. The Lord in answer to the question informs us by his Holy Spirit of the character of the man who alone can dwell in his…

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Spurgeon PS153

Spurgeon PS153 EXPOSITION. After the positive comes the negative. "_He that backbiteth not with his tongue_." There is a sinful way of backbiting with the heart when we think too…

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Spurgeon PS154

Spurgeon PS154 EXPOSITION. "_In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord_." We must be as honest in paying respect as in paying…

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Spurgeon PS155

Spurgeon PS155 EXPOSITION. "_He that putteth not out his money to usury_." Usury was and is hateful both to God and man. That a lender should share with the borrower…

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Spurgeon PS145

Spurgeon PS145 EXPOSITION. Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. _There_--where they denied God and hectored against…

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Spurgeon PS146

Spurgeon PS146 EXPOSITION. Notwithstanding their real cowardice, the wicked put on the lion's skin and lord it over the Lord's poor ones. Though fools themselves, they mock at the truly…

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Spurgeon PS147

Spurgeon PS147 EXPOSITION. Natural enough is this closing prayer, for what would so effectually convince atheists, overthrow persecutors, stay sin, and secure the godly, as the manifest appearance of Israel's…

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