"In the second century, Celsus, a celebrated adversary of Christianity, distorting our Lord's words, complained, 'Jesus Christ came into the world to make the most horrible and dreadful society; for he calls sinners, and not the righteous; so that the body he came to assemble is a body of profligates, separated from good people, among whom they before were mixed. He has rejected all the good and collected the bad.' 'True,' said Origen, 'our Jesus came to call sinners - to repentance. He assembled the wicked - but to convert them into new men, or rather to change them into angels. We come to him covetous, he makes us liberal; lascivious, be makes us chaste; violent, he makes us meek; impious, he makes us religious.'" (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
