One lively lust will sometimes lie so heavy on a child of God, that he can no more remove it than a child could throw a giant from off him. How then are they supported under a whole body of death? Their support is from the root that bears them, from the everlasting arm that is underneath them. His grace is sufficient for them, 2 Cor. xii. 9. The great stay of the believer is not the grace of God within him; that is a well whose streams sometimes run dry: but it is the grace of God without him, the grace that is in Jesus Christ; which is an ever flowing fountain, to which the believer can never come amiss.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on support as a benefit of union with Christ, p. 215
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