The Full Assurance of Faith, or Warning Against the Doubts of the Papist (2)

Our fathers at Dordt said that those who deny that the believer in this life normally comes to the complete assurance that he is a child of God are guilty of introducing into the churches "the doubts of the papist."1 Over against the comfortless lies of Rome, the Reformed churches emphasized the comfort of the child of God. This comfort the child of God can and does experience only when he is assured that he has found grace in God's sight and that he will forever dwell in the house of his God....