“We climbed the tree, we stole the forbidden fruit, and Christ goes up the ladder of the cross, and dies.
Oh how lovely ought a bleeding Saviour to be in our eyes? Let us wear this blessed crucifix always in our heart.
The cross of Christ is the golden key that opens paradise to us.
How beautiful is Christ upon the cross! The ruddiness of his blood took away the redness of our guilt. How lovely are those wounds which wounded the red dragon!
When this blessed rock was smitten, water came out of it to cleanse us, and blood to cheer us (1 John 5:6).
When Christ was on the cross now the vine was cut, and salvation came to us in the blood of the Vine: O how lovely is this bleeding Vine!
Christ’s crucifixion is our coronation.”
-Thomas Watson, “Christ’s Loveliness,” in Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects, Being the Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, vol. 1 (Edinburgh; Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton, & Co.; A. Fullarton & Co., 1829), 1: 305-306.
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