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Oh, then be ashamed, Christians, that worldlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls.
Thomas Adams.

Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.
JOHN NEWTON Taken from one of his Letters.

Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.- JOHN OWEN

Assurance I consider as the ring which God puts upon faith's finger..."A weak hand may tie the marriage-knot; and a feeble faith may lay hold on a strong Christ"... A wife may lose her wedding ring. But that does not dissove the marriage-relation. She continues a lawful wife still. And yet she is not easy until she find her ring again.-- A. Toplady--Works, p.442

When the witness and the fruit of the Spirit meet together, there can be no stronger proof that we are of God.-- John Wesley , letter: 31 March 1787