Secondly, Christ supports his people under a weight of inward troubles and discouragements. Many times heart and flesh fail them; but then "God is the strength of their heart," Psa. lxxiii. 26. They may have a weight of guilt pressing them. This is a load that will make their back bend, and the spirits sink: but he takes it off, and puts a pardon in their hand, while they cast their burden upon him. Christ takes the soul, as one marries a widow under a burden of debt; and so when the creditors come to Christ's spouse, she carries them to her husband, confesses the debt, and lays all upon him. What else keeps him from sinking utterly under discouragements, but that the everlasting arms of a Mediator are underneath him, and that he relies upon the great Surety?
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on benefits flowing from union with Christ, p. 215
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