The growing Christian grows proportionably, in all the parts of the new man. Under the kindly influences of the Sun of Righteousness, believers "grow up as calves of the stall," Mal. iv. 2. You would think it a monstrous growth, in these creatures, if you saw their heads grow, and not their bodies; or if you saw one leg grow, and another not: if all the parts do not grow proportionably. Aye, but such is the growth of many in religion. They grow like rickety children, who have a big head, but a slender body: they get more knowledge into their heads, but no more holiness into their hearts and lives. They grow very hot outwardly, but very cold inwardly; like men in a fit of the ague. They are more taken up about the externals of religion, than formerly; yet as great strangers to the power of godliness as ever.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on growth in grace as a benefit of union with Christ, pp. 206-207
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