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The Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit (1872)
The Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit - 1872 Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LOST SILVER PIECE. ÜKLIVlfRED ON LORD'8-DAY MORNING, JANUARY 15TH, 1871, ?? ?. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Eith... more »er -what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, und aoek diligently till she find it ? And when she hath found it, she calloth her friends and lier neighbours together, saying. Rejoice with me ; for I have found the píceo which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto yon, there i joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."— Luke xv. 8—10. ??? chapter is full of grace and truth. Its three consecutive parables have been thought to be merely a repetition of the same doctrine nnder different metaphors, and if that were so, the truth which it teaches is so important that it conld not be rehearsed too often in our hearing. Moreover, it is one which we are apt to forget, and it is well to have t, airain and again impressed upon our minds. The truth here taught ¡? just this—that mercy stretches forth her hand to misery, that grace i-i-rtives men as sinners, that it deals with demerit, unworthincss, and worthlessness ; that those who think themselves righteous are not the objecte of divine compassion, hut the unrighteous, the guilty, and the undeserving, are the proper subjects for the infinite mercy of God; in a word, that salvation is not of merit but of grace. This truth I say is most important, for it encourages penitents to return to their Father; but it is very apt to be forgotten, for even those who are saved by grace too often fall into the spirit of the elder brother, and speak as if, after all, their salvation depended on the works of the law. But, my dear friends, the three parables recorded in this chapter are not repetition...« less