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 place, and conjecture what torments thou shouldst suffer, if thy head were bored to the skull, and thy brain-pan pierced with sharp thorns? But what do I say, thorns? when thou canst scarce endure the prick of a small needle. How great, then, was the pain his tender head suffered, with this new and unheard-of torment?

The coronation of our Blessed Saviour, with many mocks and scorns, being ended, the judge produced him before the people, saying: "Ecce Homo:" " Behold the man." If ye thirst after the death of the man, behold him scarce a hair's -breadth distant from it; yea, he is brought to that pass, that he deserveth rather commisseration than your envy; if ye fear that he will make himself king, behold, he is so deformed, that he scarce retaineth the shape of a man: do ye fear any violence from these hands that are so straightly manacled? do ye dread any harm from a man that is cast into such a miserable and dejected state? whose body is so mangled and weakened?

Consider, O my soul, in what state thy Saviour was, when the very judge himself did think that this aspect would move his bloody enemies to compassion: from which we may gather, what a miserable thing it is to see a Christian of such an obdurate heart, which cannot or will not condole with the sufferings of our Saviour, when they were such, that the very judge did think them sufficient to mollify