I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

He hath made him to obviate our sins, or our sins to be obviated by him (which is that Interpretation which the Socinians do most adhere unto) for the word is in Hiphil, noting an efficiency, and causality, without any Preposition before the word [Greek or Hebrew] Sin; and therefore according to the Interpretation of the word, the words must be translated thus; He hath made our sins to obviate by him, or on him, which is no sense: but rather than men will lose their own sense and apprehension, they will make the Scripture to speak no sense: The true Translation, and reading of the words is thus; He hath made our sins to meet on him, and so our sins were laid on Christ by the hand of the Father. 3. As the Father laid, and did charge out sins on Christ on the Cross? so he laid them on him by way of punishment, our sins being the meritorious cause of his Sufferings, and his Sufferings being the Punishment of our sins; for what is a Punishment,¹ but a just inflicting of some Natural evil, for some sinful evil: It is the inflicting of the evil of Suffering for the sinful ⟨p. 110⟩evil of Doing. Now when Christ died on the Cross, He was wounded for our Transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, Isa. 53.5. And where do we read, either in Scripture, or any Author, that a man is said to be scourged, wounded, or afflicted for a fault, but it notes a punishment, and that such a fault is the meritorious cause thereof? When God threatens to punish men for sin, he threatens them with the bearing of their Sin. So Levit. 20.17. He shall bear his iniquity, is the same with, he shall be killed, verse 16. and he shall be cut off, verse 18. So Numb. 14.33. Your Children shall wander in the Wilderness, and shall bear your whoredoms, that is, the punishment which is due to them. So Ezek. 18.20. The Soul that sins, shall die, and the Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father; that is, the Son shall not be punished for the Fathers sin. So that in Scripture Language, to bear the sin of another, is to be punished for another: So the Goat did bear the sins of the People, and Christ who was our Sin-Offering, did bear our sins on the Cross,