Now you know you are told every Sunday that it does not signify what you believe; that all sects and denominations will be saved; that doctrines are unimportant things; that as to the doctrines of God's grace, they are rather dangerous than otherwise, and the less you inquire about them the better; they are very good things for the priests, but you common people cannot understand them. Thus they keep back a portion of the gospel with cautious reserve; but having studied in the devil's new Jesuitical college, they understand how to call themselves particular Baptists, and then preach general doctrines, to call themselves Calvinists, and preach Arminianism, telling the people that it does not signify whether they preach damnable heresies instead of the truth of God. And what do the congregations say? "Well, he is a wise man, and ought to know." So you are going back into as bad a priestcraft as ever.
Spurgeon, C. H., "A Solemn Warning for All Churches," February 24, 1856, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
(Spurgeon, C. H., The New Park Street Pulpit, 6 vols., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1990 (reprint), vol. 2 (During the Year 1856), sermon 68, pp. 115-116.)
(Spurgeon, C. H., The New Park Street Pulpit, 6 vols., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1990 (reprint), vol. 2 (During the Year 1856), sermon 68, pp. 115-116.)
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