The True Convert: An Exposition of the Parable of the Lost Son is a penetrating verse by verse and sometimes word by word examination of Luke 15:11-32. Rogers uncovers things, which most interpreters completely ignore. He looks at conviction of sin, repentance, genuine faith and other doctrines as if he were using a microscope. Such thoroughness is not found in works today at all. What should be one of the main controversies of our own time, but sadly is not, is the question of whether a person can be a true convert and yet have his life baron of fruit. Rogers spends much time on this. One of his illustrations of the foolishness of a fruitless profession follows: “A man may be acquainted with them many years, yet not know of what religion they are of...a man cannot tell by their profession. If they be Christians, a man had need be told so, for it doth not appear by their works and actions. Look what course the foolish painter doth take with his ill-favored pictures, writing underneath their names, as, this is a bear, or this a lion, that so all may know them; the same course had we need to take with these, that they may be known to be believers and professors. But let such know, that had they true grace, it would break forth like fire, after it hath been long kept in, and discover itself both by deeds and words (Jeremiah 20:9).” 312 pages. Hardback.

A thorough treatment of Jesus’ parable from Luke 12:16-22. Rogers’ original volume was published posthumously by his son in 1662.
Nehemiah Rogers’ exposition of the parable is brilliant. He draws out over fifty doctrines from the text which he handles thoroughly. Some of the doctrines included are: A man may be very Wealthy, and yet very Wicked; Sins of Thoughts are displeasing unto God as well as Sins of Acts; They that place their Happiness in Riches are egregious Fools; A carnal Man delights in a voluptuous Life; The Purposes of Sinners are oftentimes disappointed by God; Worldly prosperity breeds Sloth and carnal Security; A Night of Sorrow succeeds the Day of Pleasure to a Sinner; The Loss of the Soul is the greatest Loss; and Worldly Riches, immoderately loved, expose a Man to God’s heavy Wrath. Below are some quotes from the book:
“Where we take our chief strength to lie, that certainly we most trust unto; if it be in our barn, and in our goods, then, without doubt, our goods are our God, and our barn is our temple. Our greedy getting riches is our devotion, Amos 8:5, our coffers and chests, our heaven; in a word, we make the earth our throne, and heaven our footstool, as one speaks aptly.”
“Now suppose that there were an open window into thy heart, so that everyone that passeth by, might see all thy thoughts, as transparently as thy actions, in an open market; would it not cause thee to be as careful of them as thou art of thy outward behavior and carriage?” “No part of man can sin without the heart; the heart can sin without the rest.”
Hardback. 378 pages.