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Winslow Foot of the Cross by Octavius Winslow (Baptist) examines meditations about bearing with Christ during his crucifixion. What a believer would think. How it would impact him.
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
by Octavius Winslow, 1864
Table of Contents for Winslow The Foot of the Cross
Preface (below)
1. Nearness to the Cross
2. A Sight of Sin and a Sight of Jesus
3. Faith at the Foot of the Cross
4. Love at the Foot of the Cross
5. Prayer at the Foot of the Cross
6. Forgiveness of Sin at the Foot of the Cross
7. The Conviction of Truth Beneath the Cross
8. A Life-look at the Foot of the Cross
9. Bearing the Cross
10. The Solitude of the Cross
11. The Believer Crucified
12. The Repose of the Cross
13. The Cross of Christ the Christian’s Weapon
14. Christ Crucified the Center of Christian Union
Octavius Winslow
Octavius Winslow (1 August 1808 – 5 March 1878), also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was a prominent 19th-century evangelical preacher in England and America. A Baptist minister for most of his life and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J. C. Ryle, he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade.
Historical family information
Winslow was a direct descendant of John Winslow and Mary Chilton who braved the Atlantic to travel to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Legend has it[citation needed] that Mary was the first female of the little band to set foot in the New World. In 1624 she married John, brother to Edward Winslow (1595–1655), a celebrated Pilgrim leader. [expand title="see more on Octavius Winslow"]
Education and American Ministry
It is suggested that Winslow began his ministerial training in Stepney, London, but then moved to Columbia College, New York. Twice he was granted the privilege of receiving honorary degrees. The first was a Masters of Arts (M.A.) by the University of the City of New York (NYU) in 1836. Secondly, in 1851, Columbia College in New York City conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). The second degree was given mostly because of the body and scope of his written works. Winslow's official ordination would later be on 21 July 1833 at the Oliver Street Baptist Church.
After completing a short service as a moderator at a Stanton Street church, he was dismissed on 18 May 1831 and he went on to found or "plant" the 20 members Bowery Baptist Church which was organized in March 1833 and met in the Military Hall on the Bowery. After meeting in this Hall for a year, they relocated to Broadway Hall and renamed the church Central Baptist Church. These years would bring the church a "moderate degree of prosperity" and would bring Winslow trials of depression. When Winslow would later leave this flock, there would be no written records as to why he left.
He is said to have ministered in the newly started Second Baptist Church there in Brooklyn on the corner of Tillary and Lawrence Streets in 1836 and 1837, the work sadly closing in 1838 and the church was sold to the Free Presbyterian congregation. In 1839 he moved back to England where he became one of the most valued ministers of his time. This was largely due to the earnestness of his preaching and the excellence of his prolific writings.
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PREFACE
[expand title=”Read the Preface”] The ‘foot of the Cross’ is a sacred “household word” in the family of God– rich in the Divine truths and precious in the Christian experience it is employed to express. Adopting this familiar but emphatic phrase, the author has sought in these pages to expound and illustrate, in a few instances, its tender and solemn significance. He has aimed to show how all vital, saving truth centers in, and all sanctifying and comforting blessing springs from, the Cross of Christ. The discussion of this comprehensive and sublime theme, in the present instance, is limited and faulty- as the most elaborate and finished human exposition of such a theme must necessarily be. It is but here and there he has plucked a cluster of fruit bending from this Tree of Life, or has gathered a flower, blooming in beauty and breathing in fragrance, beneath its hallowed shade. Still, if his imperfect labor shall have attracted some truth-perplexed mind, some sin-burdened conscience, some sorrow-stricken heart, some hope-despairing soul to the ‘foot of the cross,’ there to experience the precious blessing sought, he will not regret having presented to the Church of God even this partial and imperfect discussion of a theme which the combined intellect of heaven could not fully unfold, nor the study and contemplation of eternity utterly exhaust- the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Reader! study these pages with fervent prayer to the Holy Spirit that He, through this dim medium, might unveil to you, in some degree, the glory of Christ’s finished work, guide your trembling steps to the foot of the cross, give you simple faith in the Crucified, and thus bring you into a state of Perfect Peace with God through Christ.
“It is finished! -but what mortal dare
In that triumph hope to share?
Savior, to Your cross I flee;
Say, It is finished! and for me.
“Then will I sing, The cross! the cross!
And count all other gain but loss;
I’ll sing the cross, and to Your tree
Cling evermore, blessed Calvary!
To the benediction of the Triune Jehovah
this little volume is prayerfully commended.[/expand]
More Works on the Calvary
- Austin-Sparks Horizoned by Resurrection
- Benedetto Benefit of Christ Crucified
- Carradine, Beverly – A Journey to Palestine
- Gordon – Quiet Talks about Calvary
- Gordon – Quiet Talks about Jesus
- Gordon Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
- Ironside, H. – Things Seen And Heard In Bible Lands
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