Make sure work, as to your knitting with the stock, by faith unfeigned; and beware of hypocrisy: a branch that is not sound at the heart, will certainly wither. The trees of the Lord's planting are trees of righteousness, Isa. lxi. 3. So when others fade, they bring forth fruit. Hypocrisy is a disease in the vitals of religion, which will consume all at length. It is a leak in the ship, that will certainly sink it. Sincerity of grace will make it lasting, be it ever so weak: as the smallest twig, that is sound at the heart, will draw nourishment from the stock, and grow; while the greatest bough that is rotten, can never recover, because it receives no nourishment.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on fruitfulness as a benefit of union with Christ, p. 209
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