there are no instances in which God appears to have given special insight to an individual, such as, for example, the well-known story of C. H. Spurgeon while preaching at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall. He suddenly pointed to a man in the crowd he did not know and said, ‘There is a man sitting there, who is a shoemaker; he keeps his shop open on Sundays, it was open last Sabbath morning; he took nine pence and there was fourpence profit out of it; his soul is sold to Satan for fourpence!’ It turned
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