7 o Chap. 7, AnE xpofition upon the Hookof J QB. Verf. aa;. it up like a mighty Sampfon, andjcarried it out for us. The fcape- Goate was a type of,this, Levit. 6. 2.2. And the Goate ,/hall bear upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited ; or a land cut off and feparated fromother lands and people, figuring hereby the total abolifhing ofour fins, which being carried into a land, where noman dwells, Dial/ be as loft and gone for ever, not to be found when they (hall be fought for: who can find that, which is where no man ever was ; pardon'd fin is carried and (as it were) hid out of the fight both of God and man, for it is not ; and that which is not, is not (according to man)to be feen. In allufion to all which, ChriÑ (Jo. i. ag.) ispointed at by the Baptift,with, Behold the Lamb of God that taketb away thefins of the world ; he takes fin offfrom the world, upon himfelf, and carries it away no man knowes whither. That for the fiat word,pardon, why doeft thou not pardon my fin. The tecond word is rendred by our Tranftatours, Take away, Ell fir li why doeff thou not take away mine iniquity ? Others thus, Why Rev p. r rrir<,, doeft thou not cauje mine inquity to pafs away? Or why doeft z.interire,peri' thou not put away mine iniquity ? So we tranflate,z,Sam.I z.13 re,v nefcere, where affoon as David confeil his fin, Paying, Ihave finned, Na- eaori; than anfwers, and the Lord bathput away thyfin, he hatk made it to pats away. The word fignifies, lira, limply, to pats away or to pals by. Secondly, to dye, perithor vanilh away, that which pattes by . us is vani(hed,as to us: So the word is taken, Pfal. 37. 36. where David (peaking ofthe flourifhing cfface of wicked men, faith, I have feen the wicked ingreat profperity, ffourifbing as agrees: bay tree, yet hepall away and loe be was not : A man unpardoned, fees, or (hould fee,his fins growing up as a mighty tree :lfìn unpardon- ed, -flourifhcs like a green bay -tree, it roots in the foul, and guilt nourithes it ; but when pardon comes, fin palles away, and it is not, becaufe that which gave it Pap, is not. ¢ddo dicitnr Further, this word (which is veryconfiderable) is applied to de, orI ta), the committing offin, as well as to the pardoning of fin : For pap}o,jurdrnen- when it is joyned with thole words, The Commandments of to,frgY cfio° God, tbe. Statutesof God, the Word ofGod, or the like it fig ¢range nifies to violate,to break ttie bounds, to tranfgrefs : for in finning ure, peccare, a man panes by the Word and- Commandment ofGod, the pre- cepts which God hath given, and the charge God bath laid upon hims he goeth away form all ; when man. fins he paffes by the Coln-,
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