The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Spurgeon's Calvinism

All I can tell you John is that although I have not read EVERY sermon nor EVERY book that Spurgeon wrote I have read a considerable amount of his writings. And, I can, without reservation, tell you that Spurgeon was true to biblical Calvinism, particularly in the matter of the "Ordo Salutis". In many places, either directly, implication or necessary logic, Spurgeon affirms that regeneration precedes faith, or to put it another way, faith is the fruit of regeneration.

It would have been helpful if you would have at least provided a couple of links to the material you found which allegedly shows that Spurgeon believed that faith precedes regeneration. But, I simply took your phrase which you wrote you used on Google and one of the very first results was a sermon No. 979 by Spurgeon, "Faith and Regeneration", Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, March 5th, 1871, where he CLEARLY said that faith is evidence of regeneration... which certainly is an affirmation that regeneration precedes faith.

You should realize that we are living in a day when spurious men/women have a need to discredit the truth by making false accusations concerning notable Calvinists; even Calvin himself, e.g., claiming that Calvin held to universal atonement vs. definite atonement (cf. R.T. Kendall's Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649, and refuted by Paul Helm in his Calvin and the Calvinists). R.J. Rice also went to great pains to edit many of Spurgeon's sermons and publish them in a book. What he did was to remove any and all places from those sermons that showed Spurgeon held to biblical Calvinism. In short, Rice made Spurgeon out to be an Arminian/semi-Pelagian. So, it is important to CONSIDER THE SOURCE carefully before jumping to any conclusions about such claims. In fact, when you hear/read such claims you should automatically become very suspicious of not only the claim but the motive behind it.