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The Sincere Convert
The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true believers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepherd ....The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ....
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Humphrey Blunden, 1641
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Contents of this Treatise.
That there is a God. Page, 3, 4. That this God is most Glorious. p. 16. The happiness of them, that forsake all for this God. p. 15. A Discovery of Atheism. p. 10. Whence terrors of Conscience arise. p. 8. An Explanation of Gods Attributes, p. 17. We should make God to be Our God. p. 14. God made all Mankind at first in a glorious and happy estate. p. 25. Wherein this glory or blessedness of man did appear. p. 26. How Adams estate was Ours. p. 29. We are more perfectly righteous in Christ, then we could ever have been in Adam. p. 32. How to get the Image of God, renewed in us. p. 40. ⟨image 9⟩A Discovery of such as content themselves, with a certain measure of holiness. p. 34. How justly God may require perfect obedience, to all the Law, of every man, and curse him if he cannot perform it. p. 30. Mans misery in respect of Sin. p. 42. Every natural man is dead, while he lives. p. 48. The heinousness of Adams sin. p. 96. Sins of the Heart, are worse then sins of the Life. p. 55. Every Action of wicked men is sinful. p. 57. Whether good duties ought to be performed by natural men, seeing their best Actions are si•nes. p. 61. Mans misery in respect of the Consequents of sin. p. 63. Mans fearful slavery under Satan. p. 67. How to prove there will be a day of Judgement. p. 80. The time and manner of that day. p. 81. How Jesus Christ doth redeem men. p. 98, ⟨image 9⟩Whom Christ doth redeem. p. 108. Upon what conditions Christ may be had. p. 110. The great evil of rejecting Christ. p. 115. Who they are, that reject him. p. 114. The Paucity of true believers. p. 122. The Difficulty of saving Conversion. p. 144. Wherein a child of God, goes beyond a hypocrite. p. 139. Every easy way to heaven, is a false way. p. 148. Nine easy ways to heaven. p. 150. Four strait gates to heavens p. 147. The grand-cause of mans ruin, is from himself. p. 156. How men do plot their own ruins. p. 157. A Discovery of unsound Professors. p. 158. Ten false principles, by which men are deceived in their spiritual estates. p. 163.