Second London Baptist Confession of Faith · Chapter 18

Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

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4. True Believers may have the Assurance of their Salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in preserving of it, by^a falling into some special Sin, which woundeth the Conscience, and grieveth the Spirit, by some sudden, or^b vehement Temptation, by God’s withdrawing the^c 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^d Seed of God, and Life^e 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^f revived; and by the which, in the mean time, they are^g preserved from utter despair.^h

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