The True Christian's Faith and Experience Briefly Declared

The True Christian's Faith And Experience Briefly Declared by William Shewen. The book presents a polemical, devotional treatise distinguishing the 'true Christian'—who experiences the inward moving of the Spirit and a life of repentance, mortification, sanctification, and obedience—from the 'titular Christian' who merely professes faith without inward transformation. It surveys a Christian anthropology and soteriology across many topics: God as pure spirit; Jesus Christ as savior and sanctifier; the Holy Spirit's indwelling; the authority of Scripture; true repentance, turning from evil; daily mortification and self-denial; sanctification and cleansing; justification by faith and the ongoing living by grace; baptism and the Lord's Supper as inward rites; the universal love of God toward all; the possibility of election and the danger of reprobation; and the inevitability of temptation and spiritual warfare. It denounces religious hypocrisy, institutional churches, and persecutions in favor of a religion internal to the heart and lived in daily obedience. The author advocates a gospel-centered life and anticipates a form of early Quaker spirituality—universal salvation through inward transformation.