Spurgeon's The Bible isn't quite as enchanting as Sovereignty and Salvation, but it was a fine read, nonetheless.  Charles gets really fire and brimstone in this message, unnecessarily so, I would say.  Yet I concede that God probably wants some preaching to be as fiery as Spurgeon's and some to be as placid as my own.  I'm thinking that Spurgeon is an extremely influencial preacher, for his style (based only on two sermons, mind you) is 3-point, utilizes a short snippet of a verse as its base and then proceeds to pull from many others for support (dare I say he's being topical?), and is notably fiery (Sovereignty and Salvation, though to a lesser extent, is def. fiery).  These three things typify many a sermon I have heard from the Baptist pulpit.  Hark:

My friend, the philosopher, says it may be very well for me to urge people to read the Bible; but he thinks there are a great many sciences far more interesting and useful than theology.  Extremely obliged to you for your opinion, sir.  What science do you mean?  The science of dissecting beetles and arranging butterflies?  "No," you say, "certainly not."  The science, then, of arranging stones, and telling us of the strata of the earth?  "No, not exactly that."  Which science, then?  "Oh, all sciences," say you, "are better than the science of the Bible."  Ah! sir, that is your opinion; and it is because you are far form God, that you say so.  But the science of Jesus Christ is the most excelent of sciences.  Let no one turn away form the Bible because it is not a book of learning and wisdom.  It is. Would ye know astronomy?  It is here: it tells you of the Sun of Righteousness and the Star of Bethlehem.  Would you know botany?   It is here:  it tells you of the plant of renown- the Lily of the Valley and Rose of Sharon.  Would you know geology and mienralogy?  You shall learn it here:  for you may read of the Rock of Ages, and the White Stone with the name engraven thereon, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.  Would ye study history?  Here is the most ancient of all the records of the history of the human race.  Whate'er your science is, come and bend o'er this book; your science is here.

I am not afraid to have what I preach tried by this book.  Only give me a fair field and no favor, and this book; if I say aything contrary to it, I will withdraw it the next Sabath-day.  By this I stand, by this I fall.

Are not these great things?  Yes, sirs, as heaven is desirable, as hell is terrible, as time is short, as eternity is infinite, as the soul is precious, as pain is to be shunned, as heaven is to be sought, as God is eternal, and as his words are sure, these are great things, things ye ought to listen to.

"I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."  HOSEA viii:12

His Peace,
Jake