Memory: The Handmaid of Hope (C.H. Spurgeon) [3of5]

"We know some who think that doubts are not sins—we regret their thinking that. We know others who believe doubts to be impossible where there is any faith—we cannot agree with them. We have heard of persons ridiculing that very sweet and admirable hymn, beginning—

" 'Tis a point I long to know."

We dare not ridicule it ourselves, for we have often had to sing it—we wish it were not so—but we are compelled to confess that doubts have vexed us. The true position, with regard to the doubts and fears of Believers, is just this—that they are sinful and are not to be cultivated, but to be avoided—but that, more or less, most of Christians do suffer them and that they are not proof of a man's being destitute of faith. The very best of Christians have been subject to them. To you who are laboring under anxious thought I now address myself."

- C.H. Spurgeon


Text here:
http://spurgeongems.org/vols10-12/chs654.pdf

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