==John Knox==
Letter to Thomas Upcher.<ref>https://archive.org/details/worksofjohnknox04knox Laing D (1895), "The works of John Knox", vol 4, pp241-244.</ref>
:The Lord shall wipe all tears frome from the eyes of his Saints.
:DEARLY BELOVED Brother in our Saviour Jesus Christ, byyour short writing I perceive somewhat of that battle which,during the short time ye were with us, I judged you to fight.
:.... if I can not ease any part of your grief, (that is only the officeof Christ Jesus by his Spirit,) yet I praise my God I can lamentand mourn with my brother tormented. Nothing I know to bemore dolorous to the heart of the faithfullfaithful, then to lack the sensiblefeeling of God's mercy and goodness ... and yet as nothing more commonlycometh to God's children, so is there no exercise more profitablefor his soldiers than is the same.
:[David, Job and Paul] were destitute ofthe sensible feeling of God's mercy, as I am assured thatevery member of Christ's body is at a time or other.