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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.
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Octavius Winslow

THE LORD MY SONG

"The Lord is my portion, says my soul." "The Lord is my song."--Psalm 118:14 A joyful spirit is a praiseful spirit; and He around whom our loftiest, sweetest praises gather, has, for the encouragement of this holy exercise said, "Whoever offers praise glorifies me." That there are, as we have remark... 阅读更多
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THE LORD MY TEACHER

"The Lord is my portion, says my soul." "You are a teacher come from God."--John 3:2 We cannot dispense with any one mediatorial office of Christ, least of all with His office as a PROPHET, or, TEACHER. He came to make known Salvation. Before He could officiate at His altar as Priest, or sit upon Hi... 阅读更多
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THE LORD OUR PEACE

"The Lord is my portion, says my soul." "He is our peace."--Eph. 2:14 There is a beautiful gradation in the development of the graces of the Spirit in the believing soul--first peace, then joy. This is a merciful and gracious provision of our God. There are, alas! but few rejoicing Christians; and y... 阅读更多
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The Lord redeems the soul of his servants

The Lord redeems the soul of his servants: and none of those who trust in him shall be desolate. Psalm 34:22. AMID the many changes and vicissitudes of time, how precious becomes this truth! Out of God, "nothing is fixed but change." "Passing away" is inscribed upon all earth's fairest scenes. How t... 阅读更多
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The Lord's Loving Remembrances of Youth

"Thus says the Lord; I remember you, the kindness of your youth."--Jer. 2:2 If there is a stage of the Christian's life ever verdant, ever precious in God's remembrance, it is that important and memorable period when he gave his youth, consecrated his first and best to God. God calls it "kindness." ... 阅读更多
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The Lord's Measured Correction

"I am with you, says the Lord--I will correct you in measure."--Jer. 30:11 Divine correction is an essential element in our spiritual fitness for divine glory. The furnace of trial is as necessary to our heart-sanctification; as the fountain of blood is to our soul-cleansing. There must be, not only... 阅读更多
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The Lord, a Wall of Fire

"For I, myself, will be a wall of fire around Jerusalem, says the Lord. And I will be the glory inside the city!" Zech. 2:5 This metaphor is, probably, taken from the practice of travelers in eastern countries, who kindle fires by night around their encampments, to guard them from the approach of pr... 阅读更多
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The Lord, the Saints' Avenger

"Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the Lord. "I will protect them from those who malign them." Psalm 12:5 Never are the ungodly further from the mark--never committed to a mistake more suicidal and fatal than when they lay the hand of injust... 阅读更多
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The Nearness of God

"A God at hand, says the Lord."--Jer. 23:23 More saints than Luther have felt a personal interest in the forty-sixth Psalm--"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble;" thus drinking with him of the "river the streams whereof make glad the city of God." My soul, are you not one ... 阅读更多
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The Preciousness of Christ

"Unto you therefore who believe He is precious." 1 Peter 2: 7. A felt conviction of the preciousness of the Savior has ever been regarded by enlightened ministers of the gospel as constituting a scriptural and unmistakable evidence of the existence of divine life in the soul; and in moments when nei... 阅读更多
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The Preciousness of God's Word

"The word of the Lord was precious in those days." I Samuel 3:1. Among the precious things of God the saints of the Most High will ever regard as transcendently precious His revealed Word. But for this revelation we had known nothing of those precious things upon which this volume is designed to eng... 阅读更多
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The Prophetical Glory of the Redeemer

These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. John 12:41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him. John 12:41 Isaiah was referring to Jesus when he made this prediction, because he was given a vision of the Messiah's glory. John 12:41 How true is it that ... 阅读更多
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The Tithes Brought--the Blessing Given

"Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." Malachi 3:10 The Lord's purposes of wisdom and... 阅读更多
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The Tried Believer Comforted

"The Sympathy of the Atonement" "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin." Hebrews 4:15 Could we draw aside, for a moment, the thin veil that separates us from the glorifi... 阅读更多
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The Voice of the Lord in the Cloud

"He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar."--Psalm 99:7 And still the voice of the Lord is in the cloud. Not, indeed, in a visible and audible manner as of old, when the pillar of cloud, in fan-like form, expanded above them, and, as a thing of life, went before them in the wilderness. But, not less ... 阅读更多
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This is my beloved, and this is my friend

This is my beloved, and this is my friend. Song 5:16 THE object of the believer's trust is Jesus, his Beloved. He is spoken of by the apostle as "THE Beloved," as though he would say, "There is but one beloved of God, of angels, of saints—it is Jesus." He is the beloved One of the Father. "Behold my... 阅读更多
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What must I do to be saved?

What must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house. Acts 16:30-31 THE faith of the child of God stands in the righteousness of the God-man Mediator—"the righteousness which is of God by faith." This faith has not been inappropriately t... 阅读更多
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Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness

Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Psalm 42:8 SONGS in the night!—who can create them? Midnight harmony!—who can inspire it? God can, and God does. The "God of all consolation," the "God who... 阅读更多
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Consider Jesus� as Afflicted

"He was afflicted." -Isa. 53:7 For this Jesus was born. His mission to our world involved it. In the righteous arrangement of God, sin and suffering, even as holiness and happiness, are one and inseparable. He came to destroy the works of the devil; and sin, being Satan's master-work, Jesus could on... 阅读更多
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Consider Jesus� as Forsaken by God

"My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" -Matt. 27:46 My soul! was it not enough that your Lord should be forsaken of man in His sorrow? Was it essential to the accomplishment of your salvation, and to your support and comfort in seasons of soul desertion and darkness, that He should likewise be ... 阅读更多

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