If thou be a branch ingrafted in Christ, the root beareth thee. The believer leans on Christ as a weak woman, in a journey, leaning upon her beloved husband, Can. viii. 5. He stays himself upon him, as a feeble old man stays himself on his staff, Isa. l. 10. He rolls himself on him, as one rolls a burden, he is not able to walk under, off his own back, upon another who is able to bear it, Psa. xxii. 8. Marg. There are many weights to hang upon, and press down the branches in Christ the true vine. But you know, whatever weights hang on the branches, the stock bears all; it bears the branch and the weight that is upon it too.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on support as a benefit of union with Christ, p. 214
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