Now, this sanctifying Spirit, whereof believers partake, is unto them a spirit of mortification; "through the Spirit they mortify the deeds of the body," Rom. viii. 13. Sin is crucified in them, Gal. v. 24. They are planted together, namely, with Christ, in the likeness of his death, which was a lingering death, Rom. vi. 5. Sin in the saint, though not quite dead, yet is dying. If it were dead, it would be taken down from the cross, and buried out of his sight: but it hangs there as yet, working and struggling under its mortal wounds. So, where the sanctifying Spirit comes, and breaks the power of sin, there is a gradual ceasing from it, and dying to it, in the whole man.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on sanctification as a benefit of union with Christ, p. 200
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