Of Assurance of Grace and Salvation
True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken…by God’s withdrawing the light of His countenance, and suffering even such as fear Him to walk in darkness and to have no light.
This obscure statement reminds me of “The Dark Night of the Soul”, a poem by St John of the Cross, a sixteenth century Roman Catholic mystic. I cannot relate to it. If it is true, it is beyond me.
