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Publication
- Publisher
- Soli Deo Gloria
- Date published
- 1990
- Print status
- Out of stock
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dust jacket
- Yes
- Total pages
- 635 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9791877611161
- ISBN-10
- 1877611166
Reference
- Notes
- Published posthumously in 1659 from Shepard's sermon notes on Matthew 25:1-13, distinguishing true assurance of salvation from antinomian counterfeits. Part 1 treats the visible church's preparation to meet Christ; Part 2, His coming to meet her. Volume 2 of the three-volume Works of Thomas Shepard (with The Sincere Convert and the Sound Believer and Theses Sabbaticae, both catalogued here).
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Contents
- Part 1
- 1. General Scope of the Parable
- 2. The Visible Church
- 3. The Coming of Christ and the Security of Professors
- 4. The Soul that Will Enjoy Communion with Christ Must Be Divorced from All Other Lords, Particularly from Lusts and from the Law. The Manner of Its Espousals unto Christ
- 5. The Marks and Signs whereby the Soul May Know Whether He Be in League or Love with Any Lust or Creature, or Married to the Law
- 6. Motives and Arguments to Persuade Us into the Love of Christ, and to Be Espoused to Him
- 7. All Power for Spiritual Work from Christ
- 8. Christian's Duty of Being Constantly Ready to Meet Christ, and to Enjoy Communion with Him
- 9. A Fourfold Exhortation to Believers
- 10. The Soul's Immediate Closing with the Person of Christ, as the Proper Object of Saving Faith
- 11. True Believers Do with Hope Expect the Second Coming of Christ
- 12. Believers Do Long and Desire for the Appearance and Second Coming of Christ
- 13. There Are Hypocrites in the Best and Purest Churches
- 14. A Discovery of Gospel Hypocrites
- 15. There Is a Vast Difference between a Sincere Christian and the Closest Hypocrite
- 16. The Hypocrisy of the Heart Proceeds from a Want of Saving Illumination in the Understanding
- 17. Hypocrites Discover Themselves in an Ineffectual Use of the Means of Grace
- 18. The Hearts and Souls of Believers Are Made as Vessels Only for the Reception of Christ, His Spirit, and the Graces Thereof
- 19. The Holy Spirit Is in Believers as the Principle of Their Spiritual Life and Holiness
- 20. There Is Such a Fullness or Measure of Grace in the Heart of Believers, which the Most Refined Hypocrites Never Arise Unto
- 21. A More Extended Account of that Fullness of Grace that Is in Believers, and How the Most Glorious Hypocrites Come Short of It
- 22. True Saving Grace in the Hearts of Believers Can Never Fail
- Part 2
- 1. Carnal Security in Virgin Churches
- 2. Carnal Security Comes by Degrees
- 3. Security the Last Sin of Good and Bad
- 4. Christ's Absence the Cause of Security in His Churches
- 5. Christ's Awakening Cry before His Coming
- 6. The Certainty of Christ's Coming
- 7. God's Compassion towards Wise and Foolish Virgins
- 8. Christ's Coming and His Awaking Sleeping Christians
- 9. Christians Trimming Their Lamps, and Holiness the Christian's Glory
- 10. Counterfeit Grace Is Not Lasting
- 11. Unregenerate Persons May Have a Sense of Their Want of Grace
- 12. The Desire of Grace that May Be in Hypocrites
- 13. The Desires and Endeavors of Hypocrites after Grace Are Not Lasting
- 14. The Grace of One Person Will Not Advantage Another that Wants Grace Himself, and the Best Christians Cannot Dispense Grace to Those that Want It
- 15. The Plentiful Dispensing of Grace in the Gospel Ministry
- 16. Concerning Christ's Coming
- 17. Christ's Coming as a Bridegroom to His Own
- 18. Christ Will Not Tarry when Once His Time Is Come, and the Folly of Such Whose Work Is Then to Do; and the Blessedness of Saints Consists in Immediate Communion with Christ
- 19. None Shall Enjoy Christ Hereafter, but Those that Are Prepared Here