Christ Sympathy With His People – Charles H Spurgeon

‘If,’ says Augustine, ‘a man should come up to embrace thee, to kiss and honour thee upward, and beneath with a pair of shoes beaten full of nails, tread upon thy bare foot; the head shall despise the honor done unto it, and for the foot that smarteth, say, Why treadest thou upon me? So when feigned gospellers honor Christ our Head, sitting in heaven, and oppress his members on earth, the Head shall speak for the feet that smart, and say, Why treadest thou on me?’ Paul had a zeal toward God, but he did tread upon Christ’s feet on earth, for whom the Head crieth forth of heaven, ‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?’ Although Christ sitteth on the right hand of his Father, yet lieth he on earth; he suffereth all calamities here on earth, he is many times evil entreated here on earth.