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GLEANINGS
AMONG
THE SHEAVES.
BY
REV. C. H. SPURGEON.
SECOND EDITION.
New York:
SHELDON AND COMPANY,
498 & 500 Broadway.
1869.
TO
THE NUMEROUS HEARERS
AND TO
THE INNUMERABLE READERS
OF THE
REV. C. H. SPURGEON'S SERMONS,
This unpretentious little Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE PUBLISHERS.
THE STEMS GROW UP EVERY WEEK:
THE SHOCKS APPEAR ONCE A MONTH:
THE SHEAVES ARE BOUND TOGETHER ONCE A YEAR:
And it is thought that these samples, gleaned from the Sermons,will be welcome to many, but chiefly to those who aremost familiar with the ample fields fromwhich they are gathered.
GLEANINGS
AMONG THE SHEAVES.
The Preciousness of the Promises.
The promises of God are to thebeliever an inexhaustible mineof wealth. Happy is it for himif he knows how to search outtheir secret veins, and enrich himselfwith their hid treasures. They are anarmory, containing all manner of offensiveand defensive weapons. Blessedis he who has learned to enter into thesacred arsenal, to put on the breastplateand the helmet, and to lay his hand tothe spear and to the sword. They area surgery, in which the believer will findall manner of restoratives and blessedelixirs; nor lacks there an ointment for[6]every wound, a cordial for every faintness,a remedy for every disease. Blessedis he who is well skilled in heavenlypharmacy, and knoweth how to lay holdon the healing virtues of the promises ofGod. The promises are to the Christiana storehouse of food. They are as thegranaries which Joseph built in Egypt,or as the golden pot wherein the mannawas preserved. Blessed is he who cantake the five barley loaves and fishes ofpromise, and break them till his fivethousand necessities shall all be supplied,and he is able to gather up basketsfull of fragments. The promises arethe Christian's Magna Charta of liberty;they are the title deeds of his heavenlyestate. Happy is he who knoweth howto read them well, and call them all hisown. Yea, they are the jewel room inwhich the Christian's crown treasures arepreserved. The regalia are his, secretlyto admire to-day, which he shall openlywear in Paradise hereafter. He is alreadyprivileged as a king with the silver[7]key that unlocks the strong room; hemay even now grasp the sceptre, wearthe crown, and put upon his shouldersthe imperial mantle. O, how unutterablyrich are the promises of our faithful,covenant-keeping God! If we had thetongue of the mightiest of orators, andif that tongue could be touched with alive coal from off the altar, yet still itcould not utter a tenth of th