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Often appears with: spirit as seal · saul · samuel-like example · providence and divine governance · equity, mercy, and pardon · conversion and faith
Usually: argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
“For the spirit of love was given to Christ alone, that he might instil it into his members.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
He explains that temporary faith can produce real feelings of mercy that later vanish, using analogies of a shallow tree and extinguished rays, while claiming God’s sealing preserves the elect.
objection, that if God truly discovers his grace, it remains for ever; because nothing prevents God from illuminating some with a present perception of his grace, which afterwards vanishes away. XII. Moreover, though faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God towards us, and a certain persuasion of his veracity, yet it is not to be wondered at, that the subjects of these temporary impressions lose the sense of D…