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Christ Is Yours: The Assurance of Salvation in the Puritan Theology of William Gouge is unavailable, but you can change that!

Maintaining hope in Christ for the weary soul. In the face of trials and tribulations, persevering in the faith can be a difficult task. For Puritan pastor-theologian William Gouge, this question was of critical importance for those he shepherded. His theology of assurance during the difficult seasons in life provided direction and help to weary souls. In Christ Is Yours, Eric Rivera explores...

is a direct act; but when we know that we do believe, and that we do repent, this is a reflex act.”32 While the practical syllogism is not a method of reasoning employed by John Calvin, the relationship between justification and sanctification is not absent from his thought. Calvin understands justification and sanctification to be reflections of God’s “double grace” or duplex gratia. God’s justifying work in the believer where he unites the believer with Christ by faith through imputation is the
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