This unfootnoted saying of Beddome's is also in Spurgeon's sermon notes.
"The forbearance and longsuffering of God toward sinners is truly astonishing. He was longer in destroying Jericho than in creating the world."
Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) is a largely forgotten 18th Century English Baptist preacher, remembered today only as a minor hymnwriter. For over half a century he served as pastor of the Baptist church meeting at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. He is worth more than a passing glance.
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