I have lost the motivation to pursue this issue further, at the moment. Let me just state it like this: Assurance of salvation starts at the wrong end if it starts with me. If Christ’s humanity is the ground of my humanity through Spirit wrought participation with His; then the issue and question of assurance should be part and parcel with union with Christ. If someone is united to Christ by a Spirit anointed trust in Him; then this becomes the basis for knowledge of salvation. Analogically, we would never presume that Jesus was asking questions of His relationship to the Father; the Son was never looking at his miracles and good works as “proof” and “certitude” for His relationship to the Father. Likewise, as we participate out of this kind of relationship with the Father through the Son’s humanity by adoption; we shouldn’t be looking to any of the works of Christ in us as a place to insure that we indeed are “saved.” Union with Christ, by definition, does not allow for this kind of self-seeking; in fact salvation in Christ does just the opposite, it causes us to look away from ourselves to Christ and then our neighbors. The category of “assurance of salvation” is a non-starter within a “Christian” framework; since salvation in a “Christian” framework begins and ends in Christ’s relationship to the Father by the Son. Or, it is a Trinitarian framework, meaning that “salvation” or “eternal life” is God-shaped through and through; and thus self-pre-occupation (such as “assurance of salvation” frameworks pivot on) in a “Christian” system has no teeth.