Is Christ’s blood shed? Here is comfort against death. A dying Saviour sweetens the pangs of death. Is thy Lord crucified? Be of good comfort, Christ by dying has overcome death. He has cut the lock of sin, where the strength of death lay. Christ has knocked out the teeth of this lion. He has pulled the thorn out of death, that it cannot prick a believer’s conscience. ‘O death, I will be thy plagues’ (Hos. 13:14). Christ hath disarmed death, and taken away all its deadly weapons;  so that, though it may strike, it cannot sting a believer. Christ has drawn the poison out of death, nay, has made death friendly.