But alas! the unconverted man is dead in the pit, and cannot help himself either of these ways: not the first way; for the first text tells us, that when our Lord came to help us, "we were without strength," unable to recover ourselves. We were ungodly, therefore under a burden of guilt and wrath: yet "without strength," unable to stand under it, and unable to throw it off, or get from under it: so that all mankind had undoubtedly perished, had not "Christ died for the ungodly," and brought help to them, who could never have recovered themselves. But when Christ comes and offers help to sinners, cannot they take it? Cannot they improve help when it comes to their hands? No; "No man can come unto me," that is, believe in me, "except the Father draw him."
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on man's utter inability to recover himself, pp. 118-119
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