2. How many things are necessary for you to know, that in this comfort you may live and die blessedly?
Three things:1 the first, how great my sin and misery is;2 the second, how I am redeemed from all my sins and misery;3 the third, how I am to be thankful to God for such redemption.4
1 Luke 24:46,47. 1 Cor 6:11. Titus 3:3-7.
2 John 9:41. John 15:22.
3 John 17:3.
4 Eph 5:8-11. 1 Pet 2:9-12. Rom 6:11-14.
* Rom 7:24, 25.
* Gal 3:13.
* Col 3:17.
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