I have always been puzzled by folks who try to make the claim that Spurgeon was not a Calvinist in his soteriology. When that claim is made I immediately know that they have read little to none of his works. As an example, here is an excerpt from a sermon I read recently entitled “Christ Crucified”.
“I have my own private opinion, that there is no such things as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless you preach what now-a-days is called Calvinism. I have my own ideas, and those I always state boldly. Is is a nickname to call it Calvinism. Calvinism is the gospel, and nothings else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal , immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor, I think, can we preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the peculiar redemption which Christ made for his elect and chosen people; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation, after having believe. Such a gospel I abhor. The gospel of the Bible is jot such a gospel as that. We preach Christ and Him crucifies in a different fashion, and to all the gainsayers we replay, “We have not so learned Christ”.
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