Spurgeon On "Salvation"

Wrote the great C. H. Spurgeon:

"What a great word salvation is! It includes the cleansing of our conscience from all past guilt and the delivery of our soul from all those inclinations to evil which so strongly work in us. In fact, it accomplishes the undoing of all that Adam did. Salvation is the total restoration of man from his fallen condition, yet it is something more than that, because God’s salvation makes our standing more secure than it was before we fell. It finds us broken in pieces by the sin of our first parent – defiled, stained, accursed – and it heals our wounds. It removes our diseases, takes away our curse, and puts our feet upon the rock, Christ Jesus. Having done all this, it also lifts our heads far above all principalities and powers, to be crowned forever with Jesus Christ, the king of heaven."  (Chapter 2, "The Only Salvation" -  see here)