There is virtue in the blood of Christ, to staunch the bloody issue of corruption: he was wounded and crucified for sin, and sin was wounded and crucified with him. And thus Christ doth, by a holy kind of revenge, repay his death upon the old man, that put him to death. And therefore says the Apostle, Rom. vi. 6: "Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed:" and, in the former verses, he speaks of being "baptized into the death of Christ, and of being planted together in the likeness of his death:" all which intimates the death of sin, to be inflicted by the death of Christ.

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