Christ Knows Sin

...as for the guilt of sin, and the temptations from it, he knows more of that than any one of us. He tasted the bitterness of that, in the imputation of it, more deeply than we can, and of the cup of his Father’s wrath for it, and so is able experimentally to pity a heart wounded with it, and straggling under such temptations. He knows full well the heart of one in his own sense forsaken by God, seeing himself felt it when he cried out, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’

 

Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, vol. 4 (Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1862), 149.