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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.

In the former passage we read: “Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord … Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is”; and in the latter: “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.” The two are used as words of the same import in Ps. 78:22, where the Lord complains of the faithlessness of his people, “Because they believed not in God, and
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