C.H. Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) was the most popular English-language preacher of the nineteenth century. As pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London from 1861 he preached to thousands weekly, and his sermons in print sold tens of millions of copies in his lifetime. A thoroughgoing Calvinist in the Baptist tradition, Spurgeon combined rigorous Reformed theology with passionate evangelism and an extraordinary gift for vivid illustration. His Treasury of David (7 vols., 1869–1885) is his magnum opus of biblical exposition: a verse-by-verse commentary on all 150 Psalms drawing on his own original exposition, a vast anthology of illustrative quotations from the whole range of Christian literature across seventeen centuries, and practical homiletical hints. Spurgeon described it as the work he would be most glad to have remembered by. It entered the public domain and remains one of the richest English commentaries on the Psalter.