where is the power that can put us back into the pit again? It is Jehovah who says, “I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.” Some of us recollect the time when the Lord did thus send us forth. None but he could have done it; but he did it, and did it thoroughly; he snapped every fetter that was upon us, lifted us right up out of the abyss, and fully and for ever emancipated us,—all glory to his ever-blessed name! Then our text tells us how God did it: “By the blood of