pitch their faith, where having first set forth the heinousness of their sin in murdering the Lord of life, then to raise up their hearts again, (that so seeing Gods end in it, they might be drawn to believe,) he tells them, that All this was done by the determinate counsel of God, ver. 23. and that for a farther end then they imagined, even for the remission of sins through his Name, as in the closure of that Sermon he shows. It was not the malice of the Jews, the falseness of Judas, the fearfulness of Pilate, or the iniquity of the times he fell into, that wrought his death, so much as God his Father complotting with Christ himself, and aiming at a higher end then they did: there was a farther matter in it; it was the execution of an ancient contrivement and agreement, whereby God made Christ Sin, and laid our sins upon him. God was in Christ, (not imputing our sins to us, but) making him sin, 2 Cor. 5. 20. Which Covenant Christ came (at his time) into the world to fulfil: Sacrifice and burnt offering thou wouldst not have, (Heb. 10. 5.) Lo, I come to do thy will, and that will was to take away sins, ver. 4, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16. These words Christ spake when he took our nature, and when he came into the ⟨p. 32⟩world, clothed with infirmities like unto us sinners. Rom. 8. 3. God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh: Mark that phrase [for sin] [[Greek or Hebrew]] is there put for [propter] as John 10. 33. [Greek or Hebrew], not for a good work: That is, not because of a good work, or for a good works sake. So here, [For sin] that is, because of sin; sin was the occasion of his taking the likeness of sinful flesh: what, to increase it? no, but to condemn it, as it follows: that is, to cast and overthrow it in its power and plea against us; that instead of sins condemning us, he might condemn sin, and that we might have the righteousness of the Law, ver. 5. This phrase [for sin] is like unto that in Rom. 6. 10. [He dyed unto sin] that is, for sins cause; for so the opposition that follows, evinceth, [In that he liveth, he liveth unto God] that is, for God and his glory. So he dyed merely for sin, that sin might have its course in Justice, and for its sake suffered death, so putting to silence the clamour of it.
pitch their faith, where having first set forth the hainousnesse of their sin in murdering the Lord of life, then to raise up their hearts againe, (that so seeing Gods end in it, they might be drawne to beleeve,) he tellls them, that All this was done by the determinate counsell of God, ver. 23. and that for a farther end then they imagined, even for the remission of sins through his Name, as in the closure of that Sermon he shews. It was not the malice of the Jews, the falsenesse of Iudas, the fearfulnesse of Pilate, or the iniquity of the times he fell into, that wrought his death, so much as God his Father complotting with Christ himselfe, and aiming at a higher end then they did: there was a farther matter in it; it was the execution of an ancient contrivement and agreement, whereby God made Christ Sinne, and laid our sins upon him. God was in Christ, (not imputing our sinnes to us, but) making him sinne, 2 Cor. 5. 20. Which Covenant Christ came (at his time) into the world to fulfill: Sacrifice and burnt offering thou wouldst not have, (Heb. 10. 5.) Loe, I come to doe thy will, and that will was to take away sinnes, ver. 4, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16. These words Christ spake when he took our nature, and when he came into the ⟨p. 32⟩world, clothed with infirmities like unto us sinners. Rom. 8. 3. God sent his Son in the likenes of sinfull flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh: Mark that phrase [for sin] [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] is there put for [propter] as Iohn 10. 33. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not for a good work: That is, not because of a good work, or for a good works sake. So here, [For sinne] that is, because of sin; sin was the occasion of his taking the likenesse of sinfull flesh: what, to encrease it? no, but to condemne it, as it follows: that is, to cast and overthrow it in its power and plea against us; that instead of sins condemning us, he might condemne sin, and that we might have the righteousnesse of the Law, ver. 5. This phrase [for sinne] is like unto that in Rom. 6. 10. [He dyed unto sinne] that is, for sins cause; for so the opposition that follows, evinceth, [In that he liveth, he liveth unto God] that is, for God and his glory. So he dyed meerly for sin, that sin might have its course in Justice, and for its sake suffered death, so putting to silence the clamour of it.
