I have recently acquired "Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism" by Iain Murray and yes, the book records the fits the hyper-Calvinists gave Spurgeon during the years of his ministry. I would just suggest that for those who keep insisting that you:
- that that is exactly what the Puritan era Calvinists did and that is why the preaching and ministry of Bunyan, Owen, Edwards and Spurgeon are of such value and excellence. That is what they did and as one who stumbled upon their writings mainly in sermon form and benefited greatly from doing so and only later, looked at the theology behind them while I can partially agree with the above statement as a caution, I would add that we might want to do the same thing with the Calvinists actual teaching and preaching - to the same common people the Bible was written to. That is, give them credit for plainly teaching the word of God in a manner that in my opinion has never been surpassed - instead of ignoring all that and repeating the charges of their enemies and/or reading the theological statements and applying your own interpretation as being what they really must have believed.
In other words, if you want to show me the gross errors of Calvinism, put up some examples of the Calvinist preachers that I read, Puritans, and later guys like Spurgeon, or Bonar, and I'll respectfully look at it and try to explain. If I can't then I will consider myself corrected and enlightened. But if you want to keep repeating slanderous and incorrect things you have heard on the internet as your only answer or, if you, having shown from other discussions, as having a very error prone sense of understanding plain scripture then I am not interested in such comments or explanations.
