Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Authority of Scripture
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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.
THE POSITION
Searched and not located, across three texts read in full — All of Grace, A Defence of Calvinism, and Baptismal Regeneration (Sermon 573). Spurgeon assumes Scripture's supremacy on every page and argues from it constantly; there is no appeal to tradition or to a teaching office anywhere in the three. What is absent is the programmatic statement this locus asks for — a definition of Scripture's authority set against the alternatives. He never argues the point, because in these texts nobody he is addressing disputes it.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotation, because the finding is an absence. The tier rests on the completeness of the reading rather than on a passage: all three texts were read in full in the 2026-08 pass, and research/spurgeon/source-and-method.md records the search and names what would settle it — Commenting and Commentaries, or a sermon specifically on the sufficiency of Scripture.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, and the most famous preacher of Victorian England — the "Prince of Preachers." Preached roughly 3,500–4,000 sermons across 63 volumes; All of Grace and A Defence of Calvinism state his soteriology directly.
Cite this page
"Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Authority of Scripture", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/spurgeon/scripture-authority (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/spurgeon/scripture-authority).