1. _Without Christ, my Lord, I am a lost and condemned creature. I am
without God and hope in this world, separated from God and under the
sentence of damnation._
2. _By nature I am in the power of sin, death, and the devil. I belong
to Satan's kingdom. Sin, death, and the devil were my masters._
3. _In this dreadful distress no man was able to help me. Only Christ
could redeem me, for He is the God-man; and He has redeemed me and all
the world._