Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
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Although temporary believers and other unregenerate men, may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God and in a state of salvation, which hope of theirs shall perish; 1 yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him…
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This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of faith, 1 founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the Gospel; 2 and also upon the inward evidence of those graces of the Spirit unto…
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This infallible assurance does not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and struggle with many difficulties before he be partaker of it; 1 yet being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without e…
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True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it, 1 by falling into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit; 2 by some sudden or vehement temptation, 3 by God…
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