Spurgeon makes me smile (on Rom. 10:13)

“Now, in order to make this will of God very distinct, he does not go into any detail, but he just says, “Whosoever.” That means the black man, and the red man, and the yellow man, and the white man. It means the rich man, and the poor man:, and the man who is not a man. It means everybody of every sort, and those who are of no sort at all, or of all sorts put together. “Whosoever.” That includes me, I am sure; but I am equally certain that; it includes you, you in the aisles who were never here before, you who are quite unknown in London, you who are a stranger and a foreigner, whoever you may be. It is much better to have it put so, without going into detail, because otherwise somebody might be left out. I have often thought that, if I had read in Scripture that “If Charles Haddon Spurgeon shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved,” I should not have felt half as sure of salvation as I do now, because I should have concluded that there might have been somebody else of that name, and very likely there is, and I should have said, “Surely it did not mean me;” but when the Lord says “Whosoever,” I cannot get out of that circle. It is a big net that seems to entangle all men in its meshes. “Whosoever.” If I call upon the name of the Lord, if you call upon the name of the Lord, if the man who lies upstairs a-dying calls upon the name of the Lord, we shall be saved. What a wide word that “whosoever” is!”

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