2. The happiness of those whose sins are borne by Christ. No guilt can be charged upon them, no punishment can be laid upon them, no sins, no guilt shall be laid upon them ; the scapegoat hath carried them away into a land of darkness : Jer. l. 20, 'In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquities of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none ; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found.' So Ps. ciii. 12, 'As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.' They are quite out of sight ; our iniquities are not where we are. No punishment is to be laid upon us ; God will not exact the debt twice, of us and Christ too.
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. 484
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