For years Robert A. Peterson taught on the assurance of salvation in seminary and in Sunday school classrooms, and he was troubled to find how many people, for a variety of reasons, were unable to grasp the certainty of their own salvation.

This book identifies those troublers of assurance and provides the remedy to each. Peterson's argument is that difficult backgrounds and experiences, intellectual doubts, tender consciences, habitual sins and overconfidence are the enemies of assurance, and that each requires a different answer from Scripture rather than the same general reassurance. For a reader who has doubted, and for those who counsel them.