...and 'mine he was smitten and afflicted. Nay Christ himself answers you in the words of the prophet : 'Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins ; thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities,' (Isaiah xliii. 24.) As for the cause of his being sentenced as a blasphemer for making himself the...

...with all their failings, short comings, imperfections, and backslidings, have been cast upon him. " Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities." And what follows? " I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, for mine...

...ignorant of it. Hear what Isaiah (xliii. 25,) says, ' I, even I, am he, saith the Lord, that blottcth oui thy transgressions FOR MINE OWN SAKE, and will not remember thy sins :' and again, (ch. 1.2,) ' Is my arm shortened at all, that it cannot redeem ? or have I no power to...

...from the believer's eye, and heals up the wounds of the penitent, saying unto him, " I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins," Isa. xliii. 25. There it is that the believer avails himself of the tender access which God condescends...

...bought me n» sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. r Jer. iv. 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they...

...caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 25 I, even I am he that blolteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together : declare thou, that thou mayestbe justified. 27 Thy...

...everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." " I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will notremember thy sins." Oh, my brethren! let me congratulate you, and shall we not congratulate one...

...bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy...

...and his price was thirty pieces of silver. But what is most strange is, that he is our servant : " Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities." Yea, take it from his own moujih:. " I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Which is greater,...

...thine iniquities ; yet sovereign grace breaks forth in Israel's favour, and Jehovah adds, I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins ; Isaiah xliii. 24, 25. I knew thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor...