Excerpt from Our Lord's PassionUR Blessed Lord took apart His three favoured disci ples, that they alone might witness His agony by a closer and more intimate approach: it might, therefore, seem a hazardous preemption for us to venture near, and gaze. Upon His most sacred sorrows. But if we might be allowed to do so, He seems to teach us that it must be to watch and pray with Him the while. If these indeed were the only ones privileged to behold Him in His humiliations, we might indeed draw back with fear. But even the heathen Pilate was moved to awe at the sight of Him in His crown of thorns. Even the Roman centurion, from standing at the foot of His Cross, was led to con fassion and the thief on the Cross, from beholding Him more nearly in His af¿ictions, had'his soul healed. But it may be said, these approached His adorable person in ignorance of His Divine Majesty, and in unbelief and from beholding Him, learned something of godly fear or by their own sufferings were made partakers of His Cross and, so far as they knew of His inconceivable greatness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.