The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar - 1856

THERE cannot be a greater difference in the world between two things than there is between law and grace. And yet, strange to say, while the things are diametrically opposed and essentially different from each other, the human mind is so depraved, and the intellect, even when blessed by the Spirit, has become so turned aside from right judgment, that one of the most difficult things in the world is to discriminate properly between law and grace. He who knows the difference, and always recollects it—the essential difference between law and grace—has grasped the marrow of divinity.

Read the whole sermon here: The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar

The Plea of Faith - 1856

The PyroManiacs devote space at the beginning of each week to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from The Plea of Faith, a sermon preached at Exeter Hall on Sunday evening, June 22, 1856 (during the second year of Spurgeon's ministry in London, and just three days after his 22nd birthday).


Pyromaniacs: "I am compelled to run over them"

Turning Away from Vanity - 1885

The PyroManiacs devote space at the beginning of each week to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "Deadness and Quickening," a sermon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle on Thursday evening, October 29th, 1885.


Pyromaniacs: Turning Away from Vanity