The 1689LBCF | Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation - Paragraph 4
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Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation PARAGRAPH 4 True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it,13 by falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit;14 by some sudden or vehement temptation,15 by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light,16 yet are they never destitute of the seed of God17 and life of faith,18 that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived,19 and by the which, in the meantime, they are preserved from utter despair.20 13 Cant. 5:2–3,614 Ps. 51:8,12,1415 Ps. 116:11; 77:7–8, 31:2216 Ps. 30:717 1 John 3:918 Luke 22:3219 Ps. 42:5,1120 Lam. 3:26–31
