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Deep Things: Understood by Experienced Men

Spurgeon's Illustration Collection

The outlay in opening a mine is usually so great that the Spaniards say, that to prepare a mine one must spend another mine. To open up the hidden preciousness of the promises, we need a mine of experience, and to gain this last a man needs an inexhaustible mine of grace.

Bibliography Information
Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Deep Things: Understood by Experienced Men'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​d/deep-things-understood-by-experienced-men.html. 1870.