SALVATION-ASSURANCE-GENERAL
None have
assurance at all times. As in a walk that is shaded with trees and chequered with light and shadow, some tracks and paths in
it are dark and others are sunshine. Such is usually the life of the most
assured Christian.
Ezekiel Hopkins
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 22
Sense of sin
may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man
feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body;
yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the
whole body.
Thomas Adams
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 23
It may be you
have been more earnest and vehement for assurance, and the effects of it, viz.,
joy, comfort, and peace, than you have been for grace and holiness, for
communion with God, and conformity to God. It may be your requests for
assurance have been full of life and spirits, when your requests for grace and
holiness, for communion with God, and conformity to God, have been lifeless and
spiritless. If so, no wonder that assurance is denied you. Assurance makes most
for your comfort, but holiness makes most for God’s honour.
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest
happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 25
Assurance
made David divinely fearless, and divinely careless.
Thomas Brooks
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 27
Every brand
of theology that is not grounded in the particularism
which is exemplified in sovereign election and effective redemption is not
hospitable to this doctrine of the assurance of faith.
John Murray
The Assurance of Faith, Collected writings of John
Murray, 1977.
By permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
Doubts
never send anyone to hell, but deception always does.
Author Unknown