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Isaiah 53

2 Of Christ and his kingdom, whose word few will believe. 6 All men are sinners. 11 Christ is our righteousness, 12 And is dead for our sinnes.
1.Who awill believe our report? and to whom is the barme of the Lord revealed?
2.But he shal grow up before him as a branch, and as a croot out of a dry dground: he hath neither form nor beauty: when we shal see him, there shalbe no form that we should desire him.
3.He is despised and rejected of men: he is a man full of sorrows and hath experience of einfirmities: we hid as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
4.Surely he hath born our infirmities, and carried four sorrows: yet we did judge him, as gplagued, and smitten of God, & humbled.
5.But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was broken for our iniquities: the hchastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
6.All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath layed upon him the iiniquity of us all.
7.He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet did he not kopen his mouth: he is broght as a sheep to the slaughter, & as a sheep before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
8.He was taken out from lprison, and from judgement: mand who shal declare his age? for he was cut out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he plagued.
9.nAnd he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no wickedness, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10.Yet the Lord would break him, and make him subject to infirmities: when ohe shal make his soul an offering for sin, he shal see his seed and shal prolong his daies, and the wil of the Lord shal prosper in his hand.
11.He shal see of the ptravaile of his soul, and shalbe satisfied: by his knowledge shal my qrighteous servant justify many: for he shal bear their iniquities.
12.Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and he shal divide the spoil with the strong, because he rhath poured out his soul unto death: and he was counted with the transgressors, and he bare the sin sof many, and prayed for the trespassers.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet shows, that very few shall receive this their preaching of Christ, and of their deliverance by him, John 12.38 and Rom. 10.16.
1-b.
Meaning that none can believe, but whose hearts God touches with the virtue of his holie Spirit.
2-c.
The beginning of Christ’s kingdom shall be small, and contemptible in the sight of man, but it shall grow wonderfully, and florish before God.
2-d.
Read Ch. 11.1.
3-e.
Which was by God’s singular providence for the comfort of sinners, Ebr. 4.15.
4-f.
That is, the punishment due to our sins: for the which he has both suffered, and made satifaciton, Mt. 8.17, 1 Pet. 2.24.
4-g.
We judged evil, thinking that he was punished for his own sins, and not for ours.
5-h.
He was chastised for our reconciliation, 1 Cor. 15.3.
6-i.
Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the faute itself.
7-k.
But willingly, and patiently obeyed his father’s appointment, Mt. 26.63, Acts 8.32.
8-l.
From the cross, and grave after that he was condemned.
8-m.
Though he died for sin, yet after his resurrection he shall live forever, and this his death is to restore life to his members, Rom. 6.9.
9-n.
God the Father delivered him into the hands of the wicked, and to the powers, of the world to do with him what they would.
10-o.
Christ by offering up himself shall give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.
11-p.
That is, the fruit and effect of his labour, which is the salvation of his Church.
11-q.
Christ shall justify by faith through his word, where as Moses could not justify by the Law.
12-r.
Because he humbled himself, therefore he shall be exalted to glory, Phil. 2.7.
12-s.
That is, in all that believe in him.