To beseech you to believe this truth, that your iniquities are cast upon Christ. A man hath no benefit by it till he believeth. There is as much need of your believing as of Christ's suffering. Believe in 'the Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world.' 1. As soon as you feel sin a burden, ease yourselves by considering it is laid upon Christ. Free grace, as it doth not exclude the merits of Christ, so not the application of faith: Rom. iii. 25, 'Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.' The business was transacted between God and Christ before all worlds. Faith gets it copied out to the soul.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:6, p. 328
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