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PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS

ON THE

SUFFERINGS AND CROSS

OF

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

BY THE

REV. F. A. A. GONTHIER,

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT NISMES, AND IN SWITZERLAND.

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,

Instituted 1799.

SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW,

AND 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;

AND BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

1839.

35.

LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION

I. Jesus on his way to the Mount of Olives......

II. Jesus desiring his Disciples to pray for him.

III. Jesus weighed down with the burden of his

sufferings

IV. Jesus going forth to meet the soldiers, Judas

being their leader.....

V. Jesus forsaken by his Disciples

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4

8

14

18

VI. Jesus passing through the streets of Jerusalem 20

VII. Jesus before the council of the Jews............ 21

VIII. Peter denying his Lord..............................

IX. The despair of Judas.......

X. Jesus brought before Pilate....

29

35

39

XI. Jesus interrogated by Pilate

44

XII. The Jews make fresh efforts to bring about

the condemnation of Jesus Christ

51

XIII. Jesus Christ brought before Herod............... 55

XIV. Barabbas preferred to Jesus.............................................

XV. Jesus exposed to further insult

59

64

XVI. Pilate again attempts to deliver Jesus.........

XVII. The Jews declare they will have no king but

66

Cesar

72

XVIII. Pilate rendering a last and most striking tes-

timony to the innocence of Jesus Christ 74

XIX. The imprecation of the Jews upon themselves 76