Although temporary believers and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions that they are in the favor of God and in a state of salvation, such a hope on their part will perish. Yet those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus and love him in sincerity and who endeavor to walk in all good conscience before him may be certainly assured in this life that they are in the state of grace and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And such a hope shall never make them ashamed.