“O sinners, will you not come to Christ? There is nothing in Him to keep you back.
You need not say, like Esther did of old, ‘I will go in unto the king, if I perish I perish.’
Come, and welcome! Come, and welcome! Christ is more ready to receive you than you are to come to Him.
Come to the King! ‘What is thy petition, and what is thy request? It shall be done unto thee.’
If thou stayest away, it is not because He shuts the door, it is because thou wilt not come.
Come, filthy, naked, ragged, poor, lost, ruined, come, just as thou art. Here He stands, like a fountain freely opened for all comers.
‘Whosoever will, let him come and take of the waters of life freely.'”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Meek and Lowly One,” in The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons, vol. 5 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1859), 324.
