When Pighius
asks me how I know that I am elected, my answer is, "Christ
is, to me, more than a thousand witnesses." For when I find myself
engrafted into His body, my salvation rests in a place so safe, secure,
and tranquil, that it is as if I already realised it in heaven. If Pighius
says, in reply, that the eternal election of God cannot be judged of
by present grace, I will not attempt, on my part, to bring forward
as proofs those feelings which believers experience in this matter,
because it is not given unto "strangers" even to taste that
bread on which the "children" of God feed. -- John Calvin
Calvin's Calvinism - Section IV
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