in the face of life’s realities? Does it not grasp after something that is denied us as changeable men? Is it not a postulate designed to help us over the uncertainty accompanying our transitoriness? Does not this doctrine hitch its wagon to a star? We can see how much the questions about perseverance touch ordinary life. The perseverance of the saints is unbreakably connected with the assurance of faith, in which the believer faces the future with confidence—not with the idea that all dangers and
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