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"Christ took to heart all that befell him as deeply as might be; he slighted no cross, either from God or men, but had and felt the utmost load of it. Yea, his heart was made more tender in all sorts of affections than any of ours, even as it was in love and pity; and this made him a 'man of sorrows,' and that more than any other man was or shall be."

"The greatest of that mercy that was in God, that contributes to the stock and treasury of those mercies to be bestowed on us: and unto the greatness of these mercies nothing is or could be added by the human nature assumed... But then, this human nature assumed, that adds a new way of being merciful. It assimilates all these mercies, and makes them the mercies of a man."

"He that was high priest was not chosen into that office for his deep wisdom, great power, or exact holiness but for the mercy and compassion that was in him."

"And further, though he sits at God's right hand, and on his Father's throne, yet that throne is a 'throne of grace', as the text has it, upon which he sits."

"O what a comfort is it, that as children are mutual pledges and ties of love between man and wife, so that we should be made such between God the Father and the Son!"

"'God is love,' as John says, and Christ is love covered over wiht flesh, yea, our flesh."

"Well, let heaven have made what alteration soever upon his condition, in glorifying his human nature, which be it never so free from fleshly passions, and instead of flesh be made like heaven, let him be never so incapable of impressions from below; yet he retains one tender part and bare place in his heart still unarmed, as it were, even to suffer with you, and to be touched if you be."

Shoo, man, Goodwin's prose is rough.