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Again, if our reproaches be Christs reproaches, ¹and Christ is content to own our reproaches; surely, he will not leave us to take our sins upon our selves: if his love be such as he will take the burden of our sufferings upon himself; surely his love is such as not to see us sink under the burden of our sins: No, our sins are upon him as well as our sufferings; not that he takes them upon him to be guilty, but only by imputation: the Text says, He was made sin; what abundance of consolation is this, that Christ is willing both to take off our sins and sufferings? there are nothing but these two that should trouble us in the world, our sins and sufferings, and Christ takes them off both.

Again, if our reproaches be Christs reproaches, ¹and Christ is content to own our reproaches; surely, he will not leave us to take our sins upon our selves: if his love be such as he will take the burthen of our sufferings upon himself; surely his love is such as not to see us sink under the burthen of our sins: No, our sins are upon him as well as our sufferings; not that he takes them upon him to be guilty, but only by imputation: the Text says, He was made sin; what abundance of consolation is this, that Christ is willing both to take off our sins and sufferings? there are nothing but these two that should trouble us in the world, our sins and sufferings, and Christ takes them off both.

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11. And yet further, if Christ will own our reproaches, ⟨p. 416⟩¹proaches, then he will own our services: there is no great difficulty of believing the one, if we believe the other: we may comfortably go to Christ and say, Blessed Saviour, wilt thou own upon thy self, the dirt cast upon our faces, and wilt not own the work of thine own Spirit? though we may stain the work of Gods grace by our sin, yet Christ that is so indulgent to take reproaches, will surely own our services; he will own our active obedience, as well as our passive obedience.