Excerpt from Our Lord's Passion

Our Blessed Lord took apart His three favoured disciples, that they alone might witness His agony by a closer and more intimate approach, it might, therefore, seem a hazardous presumption for us to venture near, and gaze upon His most sacred sorrows. But if we might he 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 hack 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 confession, and the thief on the Cross, from beholding Him more nearly in His afflictions, 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, they reverenced and adored.

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