I have no sympathy with the
preaching which degrades the Truth of God into a hobbyhorse for its own thought
and only looks upon Scripture as a kind of pulpit from which it may thunder out
its own opinions! No, if I have gone beyond what that Book has taught, may God
blot out everything that I have said! I beseech you, never believe me if I go
an atom beyond what is plainly taught there. I am content to live and to die as
the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching—as a person who has thought out
nothing and invented nothing—as one who never thought invention to be any part
of his calling, but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips
of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the
people—mourning much that anything of his own should come between—but never
thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the
brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much
his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.
Charles
Spurgeon
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