Yes, but Spurgeon also said:
If I was asked, “Why is a man damned?” I should answer as an Arminian answers, “He destroys himself.” I should not dare to lay man’s ruin at the door of divine sovereignty. On the other hand, if I were asked, “Why is a man saved?” I could only give the Calvinistic answer, “He is saved through the sovereign grace of God, and not at all of himself.” I should not dream of ascribing the man’s salvation in any measure to himself.
It occurred to me last night while I was listening to Spurgeon’s ” All of Grace” that the doctrine of predestination is an explanation not of the saved, but of the damned. Its an explanation of judgement. If God’s Grace is completely free and faith is a gift from God, then how we “get”…
