By Charles H. Spurgeon
As with so many, my life has constantly been enriched by Spurgeon’s work, The Treasury of David.
A few notable points (from ??)
Spurgeon wrote 18-million words (Churchill 6 million).
First published in weekly installments over a 20-year-span in the Long Metropolitan Tabernacle periodical, Sword and Trowel.
Completed sections were released volume by volume until the final volume was released in 1885.
By 1895, 120,000 sets had been sold.
Eric Hayden (Eric W. Hayden received his MA degree at Durham University and was trained for the ministry at Spurgeon's College, London; later pastored Metropolitan Tabernacle. Considered the greatest living authority on Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the message and the man) called Treasure of David, Spurgeon’s Magnum Opus.
A few of the many gems I have mined . . .
Psalm 1
1:2 — “And on his law he meditates day and night.
He takes a text and carries it with him all day long. . . . “The law of the Lord” is the daily bread of the true believer. . . . Let me ask you – Is your delight in the law of God? Do you study God's word? Do you make it the man of your right hand—your best companion and hourly guide? If not, this blessing belongeth not to you.
Psalm 108:1 “My heart is fixed . . .”
Meditation is a fixed duty. It is not a cursory work. Man's thoughts naturally labor with a great inconsistency; but meditation chains them, and fastens them upon some spiritual object... When [our thoughts] only take a glance of a holy object, and then flit away, there is not so much fruit brought into the soul. “O God, my heart is fixed” – Indeed, meditation is not only the busying the thoughts, but the centring of them; not only the employing of them, but the staking them down upon some spiritual affair.
Psalm 108:9 “Moab is my washpot . . .“
We ought never to fear those who are defending the wrong side, for since God is not with them their wisdom is folly, their strength is weakness, and their glory is their shame. We think too much of God's foes and talk of them with too much respect
