Exhaustive Regeneration

Regeneration makes not only a new head, for knowledge, but a new heart, and new affections, for holiness—“All things become new,” 2 Cor. 5:17. If a man, having received many wounds, should be cured of them all, save one only, he might bleed to death by that one as well as by a thousand: so, if the change go not through the whole man, it is naught.

 

Thomas Boston, The Whole Works of Thomas Boston: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State and a View of the Covenant of Grace, ed. Samuel M‘Millan, vol. 8 (Aberdeen: George and Robert King, 1850), 86.