But the cross of Christ, by which appellation the saint's troubles are named, is a kindly name to the believer. It is a cross indeed; not to the believer's graces, but to his corruptions. The hypocrite's seeming graces may indeed breathe out their last on a cross, as those of the stony-ground hearers did, Matt. xiii. 6. "When the sun" of persecution, ver. 21, "was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away." But never did one of the real graces in a believer die upon the cross yet. Nay, as the candle shines brightest in the night, and the fire burns fiercest in intense frost; so the believer's graces are commonly most vigorous in a time of trouble.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on the husbandman’s care as a benefit of union with Christ, p. 217
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