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Spurgeon's The Treasury of David Bible Commentary on PsalmsSpurgeon's own commentary on every verse of the Psalms is extremelyinsightful, and by itself it would have been rich enough forposterity. But there's much more in The Treasury of David. You'llfind a wealth of illuminating extracts and quotes from hundreds ofcommentators - contemporaries of Spurgeon as well as the greatPuritan expositors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Preachers and teachers will appreciate the homiletical hints onalmost every verse, concise sermon outlines, and provocative seedthoughts. Of all Spurgeon's writings, the one that is his greatestworks is "The Treasury of David", composed and polished over thespan of nearly half his ministry. First published in weeklyinstallments over a twenty-year span in the London MetropolitanTabernacle's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel, completedsections were released volume by volume, until the seventh andfinal volume was released in 1885. Within a decade more than120,000 sets had been sold. The Treasury of David is a superbliterary achievement. Eric Hayden, pastor of the MetropolitanTabernacle a century after Spurgeon's ministry began there, callsthis work "Spurgeon's magnum opus." Spurgeon's wife said that ifSpurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been apermanent literary memorial. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)was born in Essex, England. After preaching his first sermon at theage of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the ageof 17. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New ParkStreet and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London.Called the "Prince of Preachers," he had more than 1,900 sermonspublished prior to his death.