{"id":"18.4","chapter":18,"number":4,"text":"True believers may have the assurance of their salvation various ways shaken, diminished and intermitted, as by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin, which wounds the conscience, and grieves the Spirit, by some sudden or vehement temptation, by Gods withdrawing the light of his countenance, suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness, and to have no light; yet are they neither utterly destitute of that 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 supported from utter despair.","segments":[{"text":"True believers may have the assurance of their salvation various ways shaken, diminished and intermitted, as by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin, which wounds the conscience, and grieves the Spirit, by some sudden or vehement temptation, by Gods withdrawing the light of his countenance, suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness, and to have no light; yet are they neither utterly destitute of that 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 supported from utter despair.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"relations":{"lbcf1689-modernized":["18.4"],"savoy1658":["18.4"],"wcf1646-modernized":["18.4"]},"diffs":[{"source":"lbcf1689-modernized","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"neither utterly","position":null},{"text":"that","position":1},{"text":"supported","position":null}]},{"source":"wcf1646-modernized","type":"earlier","segments":[{"text":"neither","position":null},{"text":"and","position":7}]}],"page":null,"leaf":null}