FREE WILL – A SLAVE C.H. Spurgeon It has already been proved beyond all controversy that FREE-WILL IS NONSENSE. Freedom cannot belong to will any more than ponderability can belong to electricity. They are altogether different things. Free agency we may believe in, but free-will is simply ridiculous. The will is well known by all to be directed by the understanding, to be moved by motives, to be guided by other parts of the soul, and to be a secondary thing. Philosophy and religion both discard at once the very thought of free-will; and I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.—John 5:40. The gist of the text lies here, that NO MAN BY NATURE EVER WILL COME TO CHRIST, for the text says, Ye will NOT come to me, that ye might have life. So far from asserting that men of their own wills ever do such a thing, it boldly and flatly denies it, and says, Ye WILL NOT come to me, that ye might have life. Why, beloved, I am almost ready to exclaim, Have all free-willers no knowledge that they dare to run in the teeth of inspiration? Have all those that deny the doctrine of grace no sense? Have they so departed from God that they wrest this to prove free-will; whereas the text says, Ye WILL NOT come to me that ye might have life. [Excerpt from Spurgeon’s sermon ‘Free Will – A Slave’]
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