Richard Winter Hamilton, LL.D., D.D., Sermons, Second Volume, second edition (London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1865), Sermon XIII, "The Contrasted Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ," p. 364

We are tempted to suppose that, were the Messiah now a sojourner upon our globe, he could bend more easily to our circumstances and more tenderly enter into them. We could let down the paralytic in his presence. We could…