From Spurgeon sermon in 1861 AD

   “I have but now one other point, and I shall not detain you, probably two moments while I dwell upon it, but the subject would not be complete without it. It has been said of some preachers of the word, and especially of me, that we delight to preach damnation and the fires of hell. I think that all who have heard me constantly, know that a more unfounded libel was never uttered against any living man: I have preached terrible sermons; they have been few and far between; but I have never preached them with a tearless eye. It has ever been to me a far greater misery to preach than it has been to any to hear; and this last sentence or two, with which I conclude, is wrung from my very soul.

     And you say, do you, that God will not avenge your sins upon you, that ye may go on in your iniquities and yet meet with no punishment; that ye may reject Christ and do it safely; trample on his blood, and yet God is so calm, that his anger will never flame forth against you? Well soul, well soul, “thou shalt see whether his word shall come to pass or not.” But let me tell thee his hand is not waxed short; he is as strong to punish as when he bade the floods cover the earth; as powerful to avenge as when he rained hail out of heaven upon the cities of the plain. He is to-day as mighty to overtake and punish his enemies, as when he sent the angel through the midst of Egypt, or afterwards-smote the hosts of Sennacherib. Thou shalt see whether he will keep his word or not. Go on in the neglect of his great salvation; go to thy dying bed, and buoy thyself up with the false hope that there is no hereafter, no hell to come; but, sinner, thou shalt see; thou shalt see. This point in dispute shall not long be a matter of question to be cavilled at on the one side, and to be taught with tears on the other. Thou shalt see, and we are willing enough ourselves to wait that time, only, soul, when thou shalt see, it will be too late to escape. When the fire gets hold upon thee; when the hand of God begins to dash thee in pieces, and there shall be none to deliver, where will be thy infidelity then? Where thy hard sayings against God’s earnest ministers then? You will use another note, and sing another tune, and yell another cry. O God, grant that none among us may ever dare to doubt thee here, and think that thou canst not and wilt not punish us; but may we come to the cross as sinners and be saved, lest unhappily in the world to come when thou sayest, “Depart ye cursed,” we shall see whether God’s word shall come to pass unto us or not. May God add his own blessing for Jesus’ sake!

“Whence then shall doubts and fears arise?
Why trickling sorrows drown our eyes?
Slowly, alas, our mind receives
The comfort that our Maker gives.

Oh for a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what the Almighty saith!
To embrace the message of his Son,
And call the joys of heaven our own!

Then should the earth’s old pillars shake,
And all the wheels of nature break,
Our steady souls should fear no more
Than solid rocks when billows roar.

Our everlasting hopes arise
Above the ruinable skies,
Where the eternal Builder reigns,
And his own courts his power sustains.”