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I'd highly enourage you all to read Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections. It is a rather meaty book, but it is well worth the read.

Here is the chapter that pertains specifically to our feelings of assurance:

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True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin