Little needs to be said by way of introduction to this volume, Lloyd-Jones wrote: the verses considered in it are generally agreed to be one of the sublimest portions of Scripture.

Here the apostle brings his argument concerning assurance of salvation to a climax, and the way he advances from argument to argument, piling one upon another, is astonishing - the supreme example of inspired logic. In doing so he brings the reader face to face with the fundamental theme of the Bible: God's plan of redemption conceived before time. Sermons from Westminster Chapel.