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 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Rom. 6, 6.

2 Cor. 5, 15. Rom. 12, 1. 2. Rom. 6, 12. 13.

That in my greatest temptations I may be assured that Christ, my Lord, by His in­expressible anguish, pains, and terrors which He suffered in His soul on the cross and be­fore, has redeemed me from the anguish and torment of hell.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death pre­vented me. Ps. 18, 4, 5.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matth. 27, 46.

Hos. 13, 14. Ps. 116, 3.

First, by His resurrection He has over­come death, that He might make us partakers of the righteousness which by His death He has obtained for us. Secondly, we