Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
James 2:19
- Nothing that damned men do, or ever will experience, can be any sure sign of grace.
- No degree of speculative knowledge of things of religion, is any certain sign of saving grace.
- For persons merely to yield to a speculative assent to the doctrines of religion as true, is no certain evidence of a state of grace.
- [Converted men] have been the subjects of very great distress and terrors of mind, through apprehensions of God’s wrath, and fears of damnation.
- It may be further inferred from the doctrine, that no work of the law on men’s hearts, in conviction of guilt, and just desert of punishment, is a sure argument, that a person has been savingly converted.
- It is no certain sign of grace, that persons have earnest desires and longings after salvation.
- Persons who have no grace may have a great apprehension of an external glory.
