Lord’s Day 21, Chapter 4: Assurance of Membership (2)

For proper self-examination leads to repentance. Its fruit is never morbid doubt or unbelief, but a walk in sanctification and the assurance that we are, indeed, members of the Church, living members of the body of Christ. And the assurance of present membership is, at the same time, the certainty of abiding, eternal membership. The latter is inherent in the former. The two cannot be separated. Even as calling and election are inseparable, so the assurance of the one is never without the...