been sick. And this seems to be the best interpretation that I have met with of that difficult place in Mat. 8:16, 17, where it is said, ‘he healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sickness.’ Now, in the like way or manner unto this, of bearing our sicknesses, he might bear our sins too; for he being one with us, and to answer for all our sins, therefore when he saw say of his own to sin, he was
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