1. Our sins were laid upon Christ. Whilst the Chains are upon the Captive, Captivity is unavoidable; whilst Sin is ⟨p. 224⟩on the Sinner, Redemption is impossible; God therefore gave Sin a remove from its proper Ubi, I will remove iniquity in one day, saith he, Zech. 3. 9. that is, in the day of the Messiah, Ver. 8. But how far will he remove it? The Psalmist tells us, as far as the East is from the West, Psal. 103. 12. and so he did, he removed it from us, who were in occasu Adami, as far as Christ, who is oriens Sol Justitiae; by this remove all our sins met upon him, as the Prophet speaks, Isai. 53. 6. Never such a concourse of Sins as here, Sins of all weights, Pence and Talents; Sins of all magnitudes, Gnats and Camels; Sins of various degrees, Frailties and Presumptions; Sins of vast distances as far remote in place as the parts and quarters of the Earth, and in time as the Morning and Evening of the World met all together upon him; he is the Lamb of God that takes or bears away the sin of the world, Joh. 1. 29. he saith not Sins, but Sin; because all the Sins of the World were as it were made up into one burden, and so laid upon him. Sins past were present to him; for there was a [Greek or Hebrew], a Transmission of them unto him, Rom. 3. 25. there was indeed an [Greek or Hebrew], a Remission, as to the faithful, but a [Greek or Hebrew], a Transmission as to ⟨p. 225⟩the Surety; Sins future were all one to him as if already existent, all our Sins met upon him. Hence he cries out, My iniquities have taken hold upon me, Psal. 40. 12. My iniquities, a strange word to drop from the holy one of God; but the Apostle clears it, God made him for us to be sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21. there was no Sin in him by Inhesion, but God made him Sin by Imputation; not only a Sacrifice for Sin (which yet includes that imputation) but Sin it self: the double Antithesis in the Text carries it this way; he was made that Sin he knew not, and that was Sin it self; he was made that Sin which is opposite to Righteousness, and that was Sin it self. Hence Luther brings in the Father casting all our Sins on him with these words; Tu sis Petrus ille negator, Paulus ille persecutor, David 1ille adulter, peccator ille in paradiso, latro ille in cruce, person a illa quae fecerit omnium hominum peccata, all our sins were imputed unto him. But you'll say, How can these things be?
1. Our sins were laid upon Christ. Whilest the Chains are upon the Captive, Captivity is unavoidable; whilest Sin is ⟨p. 224⟩on the Sinner, Redemption is impossible; God therefore gave Sin a remove from its proper Ubi, I will remove iniquity in one day, saith he, Zech. 3. 9. that is, in the day of the Messiah, Ver. 8. But how far will he remove it? The Psalmist tells us, as far as the East is from the West, Psal. 103. 12. and so he did, he removed it from us, who were in occasu Adami, as far as Christ, who is oriens Sol Justitiae; by this remove all our sins met upon him, as the Prophet speaks, Isai. 53. 6. Never such a concourse of Sins as here, Sins of all weights, Pence and Talents; Sins of all magnitudes, Gnats and Camels; Sins of various degrees, Frailties and Presumptions; Sins of vast distances as far remote in place as the parts and quarters of the Earth, and in time as the Morning and Evening of the World met all together upon him; he is the Lamb of God that takes or bears away the sin of the world, Joh. 1. 29. he saith not Sins, but Sin; because all the Sins of the World were as it were made up into one burthen, and so laid upon him. Sins past were present to him; for there was a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Transmission of them unto him, Rom. 3. 25. there was indeed an 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Remission, as to the faithful, but a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Transmission as to ⟨p. 225⟩the Surety; Sins future were all one to him as if already existent, all our Sins met upon him. Hence he cries out, My iniquities have taken hold upon me, Psal. 40. 12. My iniquities, a strange word to drop from the holy one of God; but the Apostle clears it, God made him for us to be sin, 2 Cor. 5. 21. there was no Sin in him by Inhesion, but God made him Sin by Imputation; not only a Sacrifice for Sin (which yet includes that imputation) but Sin it self: the double Antithesis in the Text carries it this way; he was made that Sin he knew not, and that was Sin it self; he was made that Sin which is opsite to Righteousness, and that was Sin it self. Hence Luther brings in the Father casting all our Sins on him with these words; Tu sis Petrus ille negator, Paulus ille persecutor, David
- 1Come. in Galat. cap. 3.Com. in Galat. cap. 3.
