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Part I. Redemption andJafliJicatioH cleerej,
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Mojt Interpreters cencludefrom this Text, that God did fcrja^
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his Sen in Anger, becaufe he hud imputed to him all our fins'.
Divine. Many Divines I coiifclTc, dj make fuch an Ejrp' (Ttion
upon the vfovdforfaken, in iLis text, as jou do, but yet other Di-
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'vines do differ fiom chem.
Mr, Broughton faith , My Go J my God , pjeW^eth that Chnfi
c.hu(i -,-,, not
VAi notferfaksnofGodMt that GedwasftilUns hope. Secondly ^^'f .f" ^
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faith he, The word forfaken ts not %n the text, but why doft thou
leave mc, bm namely, ^hj dofl thou leave me to tU griefs fclioW-
ing from the malice of the lav^, as they are exprejfed in the body
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the ^x\mt.T\i\A\y[a\\h\\t, None ever expounded one matter,
and made bis amplifcation ofanother.
Buc Pfii hath amph'ficationofgriefes caufcdby men, and
not trorn Gods anger. Therefore the propofition in Ver. i, is not
a comp laint ro God, that he (brfbokc his foule in anger for our fins.
M. Robert IVilmot aifo in his Treatife upon the Articles of
Chriflde cent into HellyOicwcth at lzrgz,that thetearm forfa^cu,
ts not fo proper in thu place, as the tearme Icarc ; and he doth parallel
it wi:n rh- word leave, in Pf 16.10.
M. Ainfworth faith that this Hebrew word in Pf. ii.i. whic'i
we tranfla.c Forfaken, may be tranflated, Vohy leavefl thou me, and
fairh M. Ainf^^onh m a Letter to my fche. There is no material
difference betweene leaving and forfakeina , fo as the meaning be
kiftfound, for as g od did never forfake his Son, loh. 16,11. foGod
did never leave his Son, loh. 7. 29. Pf. i6.%. But effecially, god
did not forfake his So>7 in
anger, ^htn he performed the highift alt
of obedience that ever Godrecjuired, or that the Son cuuld'perfoytn;
Tvhcnhe mtde his foule a AfediatoriaU Sacrifice of Atonement]
jea, Chriji himfelfe doth teflifie that his Father did r,ot forfak^ him
then,butonthecoyitrarie, that he did thenflandat his rim hand
to afjifi him, that he might not be moved Pfi6.%. Pf 10^. 51. Pf
y-. 6. Ffi. 50. 7. lo.yea , he doth tefttfie that he did alnajes, a-
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tn his I at hers love, becaufe he did alwaies keep his Commandmats,
'oh. 15. 10.
Thtrcforeitf.JIfwcs b;goodconf quence, tliat Chrift doth
no:coniplaineia/y.2 2. that God had forfaken him in anger for
cur fills; Bj: our Saviours c:mplaint muft run thus, why haft
ihou lectins into :hc haudi ofmy Malignant advafarics, to he
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