Sermons Preached and Revised by C. H. Spurgeon; Sixth Series (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... The disciples were never in a more sinful condition than they were at this very time; or rather they had never so grossly sinned as just before the Saviour's resurrection. Before the Saviour died they were with him every day; they were, all of them, in a measure faithful, never forsook their Master, never denied him, that I hear of, till he came to die. And yet all the time they were true and faithful he never called them any thing better than friends; he never called them "brethren." You would-have thought that when they ran away from -him, that when three of them slept in the garden during his agony, when all forsook him and fled, and when Peter especially denied him, the Saviour would have said, "No, I called you friends when you were faithful, I will now see whether I can stretch a point, even to call you servants." But we see the blacker their sin, the stronger his love; the more defiled they were, the more sweetly did he talk to them. He said to them, in deeds though not in words, "Henceforth, I call you not friends, for a friend hath no relation to his friend; but I call you brethren, for my Father is your Father, and my God is your God." Now carry those two sweet thoughts away with you, for sweet they are if the Spirit leads you into them--that the higher the Saviour gets the more free is he in the expression of his love; and that other thought, that the farther the disciples ran away from their Master, the more lovingly did he call them back again. Marvellous and strange, but nevertheless true. Who cannot derive comfort from such a thought as this? I know, ye feeble followers of Jesus, ye have sometimes thought that he loved his people when he was on earth, but that now he reigns exalted on high, he has forgotten such of them as...