Confident Assurance before Melanchthon

For You are my hope; Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.  Psalm 71:5  NASB My confidence – The NASB translation of Hebrew 11:1 is “ Now faith is the certainty of things [a]hoped for, a [b]proof of things not seen” (online version), but in the 1995 edition, the verse reads “ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”  You…