{"id":"18.4","chapter":18,"number":4,"text":"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’s withdrawing the Light of his Countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in Darkness, and to have no Light; yet are they never destitute of the Seed of God, and Life of Faith, 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; and by the which, in the mean Time, they are preserved from utter Despair.","segments":[{"text":"True Believers may have the Assurance of their Salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it, by","proofs":["Song of Solomon 5:2–3, 6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Song of Solomon 5:2–3, 6","osis":["Song.5.2-Song.5.3","Song.5.6"]}],"note":null},{"text":"falling into some special Sin, which woundeth the Conscience, and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden, or","proofs":["Psalm 51:8, 12, 14"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 51:8, 12, 14","osis":["Ps.51.8","Ps.51.12","Ps.51.14"]}],"note":null},{"text":"vehement Temptation; by God’s withdrawing the","proofs":["Psalm 116:11","77:7–8","31:22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 116:11","osis":["Ps.116.11"]},{"printed":"77:7–8","osis":["Ps.77.7-Ps.77.8"]},{"printed":"31:22","osis":["Ps.31.22"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Light of his Countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in Darkness, and to have no Light; yet are they never destitute of the","proofs":["Psalm 30:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 30:7","osis":["Ps.30.7"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Seed of God, and Life","proofs":["1 John 3:9"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 John 3:9","osis":["1John.3.9"]}],"note":null},{"text":"of Faith, 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","proofs":["Luke 22:32"],"refs":[{"printed":"Luke 22:32","osis":["Luke.22.32"]}],"note":null},{"text":"revived; and by the which, in the mean Time, they are","proofs":["Psalm 42:5, 11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 42:5, 11","osis":["Ps.42.5","Ps.42.11"]}],"note":null},{"text":"preserved from utter Despair.","proofs":["Lamentations 3:26–31"],"refs":[{"printed":"Lamentations 3:26–31","osis":["Lam.3.26-Lam.3.31"]}],"note":null}],"relations":{"lbcf1689":["18.4"]},"diffs":[],"page":"66","leaf":66}