Nearly every Christian will experience doubt about the validity of their salvation at various times in their lives. This book, excerpted from Fraser’s Memoirs, candidly recounts his own struggle with assurance by listing 20 grounds for doubting and then answering each from Scripture and his own experience. Although his answers read more like bullet points than fully developed ideas, the meaning is understandable and the result is a helpful encouragement to those in seasons of doubt. 

Our will, like children, is not our well; and it is a mercy to be crossed in this. God knows what is best for us. [29]

Feelings represent God falsely; it is to feelings and imaginations that God thus appears [strange and cross, unlike a Father], not to faith. We should take other interpreters than feelings. [30]

The answer of prayers is not ordinarily direct and plain in the terms of our petition, but indirect; you have not the same thing you seek, but you are answered equivalently as good. [34]

Look not to what you have done, but to what Christ has done; you neither share in whole nor in part with Christ: good works are mentioned, not to buy or purchase glory by, but to evidence an interest in Christ and sincerity in grace. [61]

God does, as it were, act my conversion over and over again. He convinces me more and more, not only of my actual and my open sins, but still more now of my secret and my soul-sins, of the plague of my own heart, and of that fountain-sin of my very nature, which carries me away from God and from his holiness continually. He convinces me also that this is a matter in which I cannot really lhelp myself, or redeem myself, or in any way cure myself, do all I can. And all that, till I am shut up to believe, and to trust, and to live in and on Christ as never before. [73] 

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