Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons - pts. 177-188 Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon Volume: pts. 177-188 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: Baptists Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Baptist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missi... more »ng text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: METHOD AND MUSIC, OR THE ART OF HOLY AND HAPPY LIVING. Delivered On Lord's-day Morning, January 30rH, 1S70, By C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And whatsoever ye do in word or deod, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." -- Colossi.: i iii. 17. It is always an advantage to have the laws of a kingdom as concise as possible. No one will ever be able to tell how much of litigation and consequent calamity has been caused in this country by the confused condition of our laws. When Napoleon issued his celebrated "Code Napoleon," which is an admirable summary of French law, he'conferred npon the empire one of the greatest boons, and proved himself a wise ruler. We want law to be put into such a form that it can be understood, and that its application to divers cases can be discovered at once. In the great moral government of God we have no room to complain in this matter; the precepts of holiness are few and comprehensive. First of all, the whole of morality was summed up in ten commands, and written upon two tables ; then, as if this were not concise enough, we have the' whole law summarised in two commands, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself;" and even this is brought into shorter compass still, for that one word " love" is the essenceof all divine law. We, as Christians, find in the text an instance of the terseness, brevity, and cle...« less