Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…

Quest. But how was Jesus Christ made of God to be sin for us?

Ans. Even so as if himself had committed all our Sins; that is, they were as really charged upon him, as if himself had been the Actor and Committer of them all. He hath made him to be sin; not only as a Sinner, but as Sin it self. He was as the Sin of the World, that Day he stood before God in our steed. Some indeed will not have Jesus Christ our Lord to be made sin for us, their Wicked Reasons think this to be wrong Judgment in the Lord: it seems, supposing, that because they cannot imagine how it should be; therefore God, if he does it, must do it at his Peril, and must be charged with doing wrong Judgment, and so, things that become not his Heavenly Majesty: But against this Duncish Sophistry, we set Paul and Isaiah, the one telling us still, The Lord laid on him the Iniquities of us all; and the other, That God made him to be sin for us.

But these Men, as I suppose, think it enough for Christ to die under that Notion only, not knowing nor feeling the Burden of Sin, and the Wrath of God due thereto. These make him as senseless in his Dicing and as much without reason, as a silly Sheep or Goat who also died for Sin, but ⟨p. 66⟩so as in name, in show, and shadow only. They felt not the proper Weight, Guilt, and Judgment of God for Sin.

But these Men, as I suppose, think it enough for Christ to die under that Notion only, not knowing nor feeling the Burden of Sin, and the Wrath of God due thereto. These make him as senceless in his Dicing and as much without reason, as a silly Sheep or Goat who also died for Sin, but