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    Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF

    Paragraph 18.2

    Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

    This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, the testimony of the Spirit of Adoption witnessing with our Spirits, that we are the Children of God: which Spirit is the Earnest of our Inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the Day of Redemption.

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    Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 18.2

    This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, the testimony of the Spirit of Adoption witnessing with our Spirits, that we are the Children of God: which Spirit is the Earnest of our Inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the Day of Redemption.

    Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 18.2

    This certainty is not a bare conjecturall and probable perswasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but, an infallible assurance of faith, founded, upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, the testimony of the Spirit of Adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God: which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.

    Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 18.2

    This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, the testimony of the Spirit of Adoption witnessing with our Spirits, that we are the Children of God: which Spirit is the Earnest of our Inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the Day of Redemption.

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