Assurance: Problematical but Possible

In our English Bible the term Assurance appears only six or seven times, not at all to imply that the doctrine of assurance has but meager place in the Word of God. For it is a very strong vein running all through the whole strata of Scripture. Nor is it presented in the Word of Truth as having only minor importance, for it is given as an inseparable element of faith. Nor is it a quality which is to be looked for in the Christian in but weak and scant form. For in half of the occurrences of the...