"Thus the saints hold heaven. Not by conquest, but by heritage. Won by another arm than their own, it presents the strongest imaginable contrast to the spectacle in England's palace that day when the King demanded to know of his assembled nobles by what title they held their lands. What title! At the rash question a hundred swords leapt from their scabbards. Advancing on the alarmed monarch, 'By these,' they said, 'we won, and by these we will keep them.' How different the scene which heaven presents! All eyes are turned on Jesus with looks of love; Gratitude glows in every bosom, and swells every song; now with golden harps they sound his praise; and now, descending from their thrones to do him homage, they cast their crowns in one glittering heap at the feet which were nailed on Calvary."(Source: Spurgeon's Sermon Notes)
Recommended reading:
The Conversion of Charles Spurgeon
The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
A Defense of Calvinism - by Charles Spurgeon
The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
A Defense of Calvinism - by Charles Spurgeon
