A Body of Practical Divinity

3. True Assurance is built upon a Scripture-basis; the Word saith, The effect of Righteousness shall be Quietness and Assurance for ever, Isa. 32.17. A Christians Assurance is built upon this Scripture; God hath sown the Seed of Righteousness in his Soul, and this Seed hath brought forth the Harvest of Assurance▪ But Presumption is a spurious thing, it hath no Scripture to show for its Warrant; it is like a Will without Seal and Witnesses, which is null and void in Law; Presumption wants both the Witness of the Word, and the Seal of the Spirit.

3. True Assurance is built upon a Scripture-basis; the Word saith, The effect of Righteousness shall be Quietness and Assurance for ever, Isa. 32.17. A Christians Assurance is built upon this Scripture; God hath sown the Seed of Righteousness in his Soul, and this Seed hath brought forth the Harvest of Assurance▪ But Presumption is a spurious thing, it hath no Scripture to shew for its Warrant; it is like a Will without Seal and Witnesses, which is null and void in Law; Presumption wants both the Witness of the Word, and the Seal of the Spirit.

4. Assurance flowing from Sanctification always keeps the Heart in a lowly posture: Lord, saith the Soul, what am I, that passing by so many, the Golden Beams of thy Love should shine upon me? St. Paul had Assurance; is he proud of this Jewel? No. Ephes. 3.8. To me who am less than the least of all Saints. The more love a Christian receives from God, the more he sees himself a Debtor to free Grace, and the sense of his Debt, keeps his Heart Humble, but Presumption is bred of Pride. He who Presumes, Disdains; he think himself better than others,