Charles H. Spurgeon

A simple Baptist preacher.

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@SemStu And God be with you until we teach and learn again. #GoodNight

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But for now the lecture is over. Far from over, but at recess. Study well, student!

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@SemStu An excellent start. I commend to you all his work, for he inspired much of my thinking in the proper preparation for the ministry.

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Read Baxter's "Reformed Pastor" for similar thoughts.

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What becomes of a minister without Christ, in hell with the ungodly of his/her parish, saying to him/her "Art thou also become as we are?"

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(2 of 2) or having their ears tickled with music, and perhaps their eyes amused with graceful action and fashionalbe manners. #LikeTheOpera

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(1 of 2) People go to their place of worship and think they must be Christians when all the time thier religion is listening to an orator.

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@SemStu Indeed! Back to #Lecture1: The unconverted minister cannot listen to deathbed joys or join in rapturous fellowship around the table.

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("Unconverted," not "Uncoverted"). Blast!

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Uncoverted ministry must be equally dreadful in another respect. If the man (or woman) has no commission, what a very unhappy position!

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@SemStu Ah, right. Such strange times I find myself in!

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...called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to ministry. (Is this the way to solve the problem of the character limit?)

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True and genuine piety is necessary as the first indispensable requisite; whatever "call" a man may pretend to have, if he has not been...

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@SemStu Thank you for the clever yet pastoral response. There is hope for you yet!

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And now I've noticed that punctuation within the hashtag seems to not be acceptable. Why do people not lecture anymore? #Vexing

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To preach: train your voice. To think: keep your brain sharp. To feel: educate my intellectual and emotional faculites. #Self-Watch

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I should use those, what do you call them? Hashtags? So be it! We are continuing in #Lecture1

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@CHSpur "tools," not "toos." As difficult as Twitter is, it pales compared to keyboards.

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We are, in a certain sense, our own toos, and therefore must keep ourselves in order. I can only use my own voice to preach the gospel.

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@SemStu Fortunately, my graces are in especially good order this evening. Yours seem to be out of trim. #PayAttentionNow