The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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Cf'nfonant to the mind and meaning of the holy Ghoft.
Secondly, I anfwer more diro^ly thus, that ChriA doth h^'re
complain to his Father againf) the malignant Jews, bccaulc tlicy
didmoftunjuftly lay many faile and grievous imputations ot lin to
his charge •,
yea, through this whole Pfaim, our Savior doth complain
t) God againft the malignant Jews, for imputing io many
iinful crimes to his charge ;
and in the fift verfe he doth appeal to
God to judge in the cafe, faying, Gtd, thou k»owefi mj f—UJhseSt
Mud my gui/ti»efes '^
if any (uchbeasmy malignant Adverlarics
do charge me withal : and this appeal is like to that which David
makes in 77^/7. ^. LordmjCtd^ if 1 have done thu things if
there he any^ickedtttfs in mj hands
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thenc^c. and in this TCry
ftnfe Chrilt faith, O God, Thou knou elt my wickcdnefj, whether
I am a Blafphemer, or an Impoi^or, or a TrayCor againO Cafar,
as my malignant Adverfarics do charge me.
And thus Chrift bare our fins, by bearing patiently our fald* Imputations
of fin *, But he doth not complain again!) God for loading
him with our fins by his imputation j neither the phrafe, uoc
die coherence v, ill accord to that fenfe.
Tradef. J'lV, I dare not gmnf^j any tfytttr Interpretations hitherto,
andyet I am notfatt^fedin thefotnt in ijueftion : and there*
fore Idefire to profound the next verfe to your confderation ;
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3 6. y^tf W# iikf /beep have gone afhay, ve have turned
every one to ht^own >ifay •, and the Ltrd hath
laid upon him tha inicjHity of us all.
Ki'^g James Tranflntien doth render the laji clanfe thfiSy The Lord
hath madetheinicjtiity of MS alltomeetHponhim-^ namely, hj imputing
all our fins to him ; andfo confequentlj. The Lord did imj>ofe
t^pon him all our defervedpuniPments.
Divine, I fee that the common Dochinc of Imputation is Ycry
flrongly faftned in your mind, and thaeforeyou do readily take
the advanrage of every wrrd that liatli but any (hew of a literal
fenfc that wav, though in the true f«nfe of the place it looks a quite
contrary way.
But for the better undcrftanding of this Text, I will propound
twoqutrftiopt.
1 Whofe fins did the Lord lay upon Chrift
2. After what manner, and for what end didthe Lord lay all
our fins and iniquities upon Chrift/ F To
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