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Berkhof wrote Assurance of Faith in the conviction that the doctrine of assurance deserves more attention than it often receives. He chronicles the history of the doctrine from the Reformation, through the confessional period, and into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He also explains the connection between faith, belief, and the assurance of salvation.

the Holy Spirit.” And again: “No man,” I say, “is a believer but who, trusting to the security of his salvation, confidently triumphs over the devil and death.” At the same time it is clear that he did not mean to teach that true believers never battle with doubts and uncertainties. Says he: “When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but rather affirm that believers have a perpetual
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