The Christian improves by trial

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Thomas Boston (Works, 8:221):

The Christian improves by his trial; and is so far from being damaged, that he is benefited by it, as it discovers what hold the soul has of Christ, and what hold Christ has of the soul. And look, as the wind in the bellows, which would blow out the candle, blows up the fire; even so it often comes to pass, that such temptations enliven the true Christian, awakening the graces of the Spirit in him; and by that means, discover both the reality and the strength of grace in him. And hence, as Luther, that great man of God, saith, “One Christian, who hath had experience of temptation, is worth a thousand others.”
 
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