Quotes On Assurance From Old Dispensationalist Authors

James Hall Brookes

 James Hall Brookes (1830 – 1897)
Take the text, “He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him.” (1 John 3:24.) This cannot give assurance; for every true Christian, unless deluded by Satan, will confess that he fails to observe them in many particulars; that when he would do good evil is present with him; and that ‘no mere man, since the fall, is able, in this life, perfectly to keep (The Way Made Plain)

Charles Henry Mackintosh 1820 –  1896

They are looking for what they can never find. They are seeking for a ground of peace in a sanctified nature instead of in a perfect sacrifice—in a progressive work of holiness instead of in a finished work of atonement. They deem it presumptuous to believe that their sins are forgiven until their evil nature is completely sanctified; and, seeing that this end is not reached, they have no settled assurance of pardon, and are therefore miserable. (Sanctification: What Is It? )

Cyrus Scofield (1843 – 1921)

Assurance is the believer's full conviction that, through the work of Christ alone, received by faith, he is in possession of a salvation in which he will be eternally kept. And this assurance rests only upon the Scripture promises to him who believes. (Scofield's Reference Notes)

D. L Moody (1837 – 1899)

There is no doubt about assurance in the Word of God. A person said to me some time ago: "I think it is a great presumption for a person to say she is saved." I asked her if she was saved. "I belong to a Church," she sobbed. "But are you saved?" "I believe it would be presumption for me to say that I was saved." "Well, I think it is a greater presumption for any one to say: 'I don't know if I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,' because it is written, "He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life." [Jn. 6:47.] It is clearly stated that we have assurance (Anecdotes and Illustrations)

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871 – 1952)

No very deep conviction of assurance can grow in any heart where the mind is still wondering whether it has really believed in a saving way, and where no impressions of certainty are allowed to take root. 

Such a precious experience as is described by these passages may become clouded by sin or lost in the depression of some physical weakness, and were we depending upon the experience as primary evidence that we are saved, all grounds of assurance would be swept away. (Salvation)

Alexander Marshall (1846-1928)

But if God declares you may be sure, and tells you how you may be sure, wouldyoucall it “presumption” to believe Him? “ Assuredly not.” Then listen to Him : “ These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know That ye have eternal life” (i. John v. 13). (God's way of salvation)

Watchman Nee (1903 – 1972)

“Every believer can know whether or not he has eternal life. Men often think, ‘We can only hope that we are saved, and we can only know if we are saved after we die or at the time of judgment.’ This is not the teaching of the Bible. The Bible teaches that a man can know whether or not he has eternal life in this age.”