(Owen) "We are crucified with him..."

"We are crucified with him meritoriously, in that he procured the Spirit for us to mortify sin; efficiently, in that from his death virtue comes forth for our crucifying; in the way of a representation and exemplar we shall assuredly be crucified unto sin, as he was for our sin. This is that [which] the apostle intends: Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, has so killed sin as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion."

"Let faith look on Christ in the gospel as he is set forth dying and crucified for us. Look on him under the weight of our sins, praying, bleeding, dying; bring him in that condition into your heart by faith; apply his blood so shed to your corruptions."

So the Spirit may convict...
"...the first thing that the Spirit does in order to the mortification of any lust whatsoever--it convinces the soul of all the evil of it, cuts off all its pleas, discovers all its deceits, stops all its evasions, answers its pretenses, make the soul own its abomination and lie down under the sense of it. Unless this be done all that follows in in vain.

The Spirit alone reveals unto us the fullness of Christ for our relief;
The Spirit alone brings the cross of Christ into our hearts with its sin-killing power;
The Spirit is the author and finisher of our sanctification;
In all the soul's addresses to God in this condition, it has support from the Spirit."
Owen, John, Kelly M. Kapic, and Justin Taylor. Overcoming Sin & Temptation. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006. 137-38. Print.