The Sound Believer, Index
A TABLE OF the principall Contents.
A.
ADoption, what it is.
pag. 280
The manner thereof.
282
B.
Beleevers in a blessed condition.
251
C.
Conviction of sinne wrought in every Beleever.
6
What that sin is which the Lord first convinceth of.
9
How the Lord doth convince the soule of sinne.
23
What measure and degree of conviction God workes in all his.
32
Conviction of sin to be first preached.
34, 96
A sad thing to stand out against conviction.
36
Meanes of conviction.
39
Compunction immediately followes conviction.
45
The Necessity thereof.
48
Rules observable about compunction.
49
Wherein it doth consist.
65
What measure of compunction God workes in the Elect.
84
How and where the Soule should come to Christ.
177
Meanes of enabling the Soule to come to Christ.
239
In what manner we should come to him.
248
E.
What evill in sinne God most affects the heart withall.
89
A three-fold evill of sinne.
91
F.
Feare of Gods displeasure necessary to conversion, and wherein it consists.
66
The nature of Faith.
156
The efficient cause thereof.
163
The subject matter of Faith.
173
The Forme thereof.
178
The end of Faith.
198
The ground and meanes of Faith.
215
How to discern Faith from presumption.
169
Whether an absolute testimony of actuall favor and justification be not the first ground of Faith.
227
G.
Glorification, what it is.
313
Greatnesse of mens sinne in not comming to Christ.
246
H.
Humiliation for sinne, what it is.
125
What need there is of it.
126
What meanes the Lord useth to worke this.
129
What measure of Humiliation is necessary.
138
Wherein to expresse Humiliation.
150
I.
A Christian is not justified before faith is sought.
107
Sanctification does not goe before justification.
109
What true justification is.
253
Who is it that justifieth, and why.
256
The meanes whereby the Father justifieth.
257
Who are the persons the Lord doth justifie.
261
L.
Loosening from sinne, how wrought in the soule.
88
A life of Love requisite in beleevers.
328
The life of Love appears in 5. things.
338
The Law not to be slighted.
334
P.
How Christ doth save by his Power.
4
Audience of Prayers, a speciall priviledge.
305
What are those Prayers, that Christ will hear.
306
Why God heareth Prayers.
311
R.
A double Resistance of grace in men.
100
Regenerate and unregenerate, how differenced.
194
Reconciliation with God, wherein it consists.
274
S.
What is it to see sinne.
43
Sense of Mercy cannot turn a soule to Christ, without the Sight of sinne.
59
Sorrow for sinne accompanies Conversion, wherein it consists.
73
Separation from sin, wrought in Beleevers.
82
What true Sanctification is.
289
The benefits thereof.
294
V.
Union unto Christ, goes before Communion with him.
101
Whether Vocation doth not goe before Iustification.
102
Vocation is not all one with Sanctification.
113
The nature of true Vocation.
217
The necessity thereof.
224
How it is a ground of Faith.
225
W.
The Whole soul goes to Christ in conversion.
183
How to know when the Whole soule comes to Christ.
190
FINIS.
End of the text · Thomas Shepard, The Sound Believer (1645)