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1 | Deception of Assurance Alone | Mark 4:17 | DocTrinsograce | 165479 | ||
"How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance? How oft then in a year may a believer be no believer? even as often as God withdraws and leaves the creature in the dark. Assurance is like the sun-flower, which opens with the day and shuts with the night. It follows the motion of God's face; if that looks smilingly on the soul, it lives; if that frowns or hides itself, it dies. But faith is a plant that can grow in the shade, a grace that can find the way to heaven in a dark night. It can 'walk in darkness, and yet trust in the name of the Lord.'" --William Gurnall (1617-1679); Puritan, Rector of Lavenham in Suffolk | ||||||
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