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Gardiner Spring (1785-1873) tackles the difficult question of How do I know I am saved? Spring’s thesis is that there are distinguishing traits to show that one has been saved, traits that indicate God has begun a good work in the believer. Relying on scripture passages such as 1 John 5:13, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Matthew 7:21 and others, the author insists those who claim to be saved must do as Paul...

A man may converse on the subject of religion as though his lips were touched with a coal from off the altar, and yet be at heart ignorant of those things in which he is the instructor of others. Oh, it is a lamentable thought, but it is nevertheless true that “a man may preach like an apostle, pray like an angel, and yet have the heart of a fiend.”