No Cross, No Crown. (MSF Early Quakers Series) - Softcover

Penn, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975677994 ISBN 13: 9781975677992

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The classic treatise “No Cross, No Crown” was first written while William Penn was imprisoned for his faith in the Tower of London in 1668, when only twenty-four years of age. Later in life, Penn greatly enlarged upon the original publication, treating exhaustively upon the particular sins of pride, avarice, and luxury, and adding two lengthy collections of testimonies from other authors in order to further substantiate his position. This edition is unique in that it offers the reader a careful modernization of Penn's beautiful but somewhat archaic English, and has been abridged to contain only the principal and indispensable chapters of the treatise, wherein Penn clearly presents the nature, power, and experience of the daily cross of Christ, explaining what it is, where and how it is to be taken up, and the manner of its working in the true disciples of Christ.

About this title

About the Author:

William Penn (1644–1718), best known as the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, was a man courted for his talents and accomplishments, admired for his genius intellect, and beloved for his amiable and humble disposition. He was born into a family of wealth and prominence, educated in the finest schools in London, and as a young man had the road to honor and preferment opened wide before him. But, having tasted something of the true power and purity of Christ in a meeting of the despised people called Quakers, he relinquished his prospects of honor and advantage, renounced the patterns and customs of the world, and lived a life of self-denial as a meek follower of Jesus Christ.

Review:

This contemorary version of No Cross, No Crown provides a great reminder of William Penn's influen ce in the founding of the United States, and, more importantly, Penn's timeless message of our individual need to be on fire for Christ. --Alan Garner, President & CEO, Volunteers of America of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's beautiful capitol building honors our Commonwealth's founder, William Penn, both with mosaic of his famous prayer, that God would make his land the seed of a nation, and with a set of murals depicting his faith conversion and voyage to the New World. No, through this modern translation of his book, we are afforded a deeper look at this great man. What a gift! --Michael Geer, President, Pennsylvania Family Institute

No Cross, No Crown is a timeless adventure into the words and thoughts of William Penn. His vast, spiritual knowledge provides an inspiring, educational, and motivating study of Christ and his cross. --Donna Watson, PhD, Author

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975677994
• ISBN 13: 9781975677992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102
• Editor: Henderson Jason R.