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Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 2. 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 testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing wit...

Larger Catechism Q 80. Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation? A. Such as truly believe in Christ, and endeavor to walk in all good conscience before him, 1 may, without extraordinary revelation, by faith grounded upon the truth of God's promises, and by the Spirit enabling them to discern in themselves th...

Confession of Faith Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation 1. Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor 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 sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscien...

Confession of Faith Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints 3. Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; 1 and, for a time, continue therein: 2 whereby they incur God's displeasure, 3 and grieve his Holy Spirit, 4 come to be deprived of...

Confession of Faith Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints 2. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; 1 upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, 2 the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them, 3 and the nat...