I agree with Dave, above. Here in ascending order of importance are:
The good: makes you want to read Goodwin, Edwards, Bunyan et al on assurance. Quotes them at length.
The bad and the ugly: his preciousness; his carelessness; his failure to ground Christ’s gentleness biblically; his spoiling of what he gives you from Goodwin and Edwards because of the other bad/ugly stuff. No one needs to hear garbage like:
“[Jesus’] desire to draw near to sinner and sufferers is not only doctrinally true but aesthetically attractive” (101).
Last and most important, the blasphemous:
“And if the actions of Jesus are reflective of who he most deeply is, we cannot avoid the conclusion that it is the very fallenness which he came to undo that is most irresistibly attractive to him” (30).
It’s mind-boggling to me that I couldn’t find a peep online about this sentence, even from those who didn’t like the book. I think it’s the most significant sentence in the book. Yeah, I know he didn’t “mean” to blaspheme. But his preciousness and carelessness—which is to say his lack of reverent fear of God—led him into evil. And no one reading the book ahead of time had sense or fear of God enough to warn him against leaving this sentence in, either. This is a book to warn against.