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THE
CONQUEST OVER
DEATA!
ED75C.
I.
his
friends;
John
'xv. 13.
Hereby
perceive
we
the
love
of
'God,
because he died
f
ör
us;
' John
iii.
16.
Rom.v.
8.
Many terrible attendants
of
death
did
our Lord meet
and
struggle with beyond
what
any
of
his
saints
can feel.
Death,
like
a
lion,
ran
furious upon
him, as
it
does
upon a sinner,
its
proper
prey.
He
met death in
its full
strength
and
dominion, for
he
had
all
our
sins
upon
him;
and death
had
its own
sharp
sting when
our Lord enter-
ed the combat.
There
was
the wrath of
God
which
was
threatened
in
the
broken
law
to mingle with
his
pangs and
agonies
of
nature
:
This
made
his soul
exceeding
sor-
rowful
;
all
his
inward powers
were amazed,
and
his
heart
oppressed
with
heaviness;
Mark
xiv. 33,
34.
He
was almost overwhelmed in the garden, before the thorns
or
the nails
came
near him;
and
on the cross he
com-
plains
of
the
forsakings
of God
his
almighty friend,
when
death
his
mighty
enemy
was
just
upon
him
;
and all,this,
saith
he,
to every believer,
I
bore
for
thy
sake
:
My love
was
stronger than
death.
SECTION
II.
Death
is
the
last
Enemy.
I
proceed
now
to
the
second general proposed,
and
that
is
to enquire,
in
what
sense
death
is
said to
be
the
last
enemy,
or
the
last that
shall
be
destroyed; For
we
may
join
this
word
last,
either
to death,
or
to
destruction;
and
in
each sense it affords comfort
to
the
saints.
1.
It
is
The
last enemy
that
the saints have
to
grapple
with
in
this
World.
The
three
great
adversaries
of
a Chris-
tian
are
the
flesh,
the world,
and
the
devil,
and they
as-
sault
him
often
in
this
life.
Death
comes behind,
and
brings up
the
rear;
the saint combats
with this enemy,
and
finishes all
the
war.
Every believer
has listed
himself
under
the
banner
of
Christ,
who
is
the Captain
of
his
Salvation. When
he first gives
himself up to the
Lord,
he renounces
every
thing
that
is
inconsistent
with his
faith
and
hope,
he
abandons
his
former
slavery,
undertakes
the spiritual
warfare, and
enters
the
field
of
battle.
It
is
a
necessary
character of
the
followers
of
Christ,
that
they
fight with
the
flesh,
subdue
corrupt
nature, sup-
press their
irregular
appetites,
give daily wounds to
the
body
of
sin
;
Col. iii.
5.
Rom. viii,
13,
They
fight
against