Both yield a great deal of comfort to those that have interest in Christ: he bare their guilt, and he bare their punishment. It is comfort when their hearts are ready to sink within them under the multitude and greatness of their provocations: Ps. xxxviii. 4, 'Mine iniquities are gone over my head, as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.' Oh, it is heavy and sad with that soul that is compassed about with innumerable evils! Oh, consider you are not to bear your sins, but Jesus Christ; see all this load transacted upon the back of Jesus Christ: Mat. xi. 28, 'Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' By putting the burden upon his own back, he bare our sins.
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. 53:12, p. 481
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