Assurance: Grounded and Experienced

It is not the thrust of the doctrine of as­surance to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs, nor to put a stumbling-block before God’s little ones, but to expose empty profession resting in carnal confidence on promises divine given only to those in Christ (II Cor. 1:20), and to so present the truth that the weak in faith will not conclude that they are unregenerate. Assurance is not reached by a mere bare simple faith in Christ. That never did save. For from a true faith then...