3o8 01t the P affiom , ver ha-<.l done any firr at all, neither r-tJ.Msgu i !e· found in his mou)th *j fo that the judge who: conden1ned him, behaved firfl: to condetnn bitnfelf bya folemn acknowledgn1ent of his· innocence. He had gone up and down alh his days doing good unto men, and feat~ tering·. bleffings where. he can1e; healing . the· fick, refl:oring fight to the blind, and., n1aking the latne to walk, the dun1b .to, fpeak, and the deaf ' to · hear;_ feeding the · hungr.y, and infl:ruCt:ing all that . would vouchfafe to hear· him. For w-hich of alL thefe good works is he puni!hed? Death is the wages of fin: how con1es he to .die that .· knew no fin? The prophet J/aiah gives us the anfwer :.Surely, he hath born our grief!, (md carried our forrows .;· yet we did efieem· him ftricken, Jmitten of God, and affiitled. . Bfd he was wounded for our tranjgreffions,_ he was bruifed for our · iniquities: the cba– flifinent of' our peace was upon binz, and by · his firipes we are ·healed. All we like jbeep, have gone aflray: we have tur-ned every on~ · to his own way, and the ·Lord hath laid tJn · h;m the iniquity ofus.allt. MeJfiah ·was· . .cut off, but n'ot for himfelf+· He bare our · fins in his own body on the tree §; and gave ; his· :t I Pet. ii. 22. t If. hii. 4• 5, 6. I . :f: Dan. be. 26~ § 1 Pet. ii. 24· . . • .
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