Good and necessary consequences are such as the word is designed for. What is deduced from them, so is indeed the sense and meaning of the words; and if you have the words without the meaning of them, or without the full meaning of them, in so far ye come short of the true intent of the words. If I bid a man draw near the fire, do I not desire him to warm himself, though I speak not one word of his warming himself? Were not the Scriptures written for that end, that “we through patience and comfort of them might have hope?” Rom. xv. 4. But this cannot be obtained without the use of consequences. Are they not profitable for doctrine, — “that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works?” 2 Tim. iii. 16. But can this be had without the use of consequences? (Thomas Boston, An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, upon the Plan of the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity, 29).