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Spurgeon on what believers in heaven will think of people in hell

I’ve been thinking through hell, eternal punishment, and justice for some time now. A year ago I was praying and asking God how he would feel should any person be condemned to endure an “eternity of conscious punishment” (regardless of the form that that punishment takes: passive or active), and secondly how he would feel [...]

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and disappointed. But they will continue their fruitless search. Though wearied, they still stagger forward under the influence of spiritual [...]

The law and the Gospel

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair. CH Spurgeon (all of grace). There are other books online there too – might take a look at the work of the Fathers as that’s always interested me also.

  

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