Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
4 paragraphs
Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favour of God and estate of salvation, 1 which hope of theirs shall perish: 2 yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sinceri…
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This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; 1 but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, 2 the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, 3 the tes…
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This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict 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…
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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; by falling into some special sin, which woundeth the conscience, and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation; by God…
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