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No Crofs, No Crown:

The DENIAL of SELF, and daily bearing of
CHRIST's CROSS, is the alone Way to the
Reft and Kingdom of GOD.

To which are added,

The living and dying TESTIMONIES of many Perfons of
Fame and Learning, both of Ancient and Modern Times,
in Favour of this Treatife.

In TWO PARTS.

By WILLIAM

PENN.

And Jefus faid unto them all; If any Man will come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his daily Cross, and follow me.
LUKE ix. 23.
I have fought a good Fight, I have finished my Course, I have kept
the Faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a CROWN of
Righteoufnefs, &c.
2 TIM. iv. 7, 8.

The

TWELFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY JAMES PHILLIPS,
GEORGE-YARD, LOMBARD-STREET.

M. DCC. LXXXII.

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THE

PREFACE.

READER,

THE great bufinefs of man's life, is to anfwer the end for which he lives; and that is, To glorify God, and fave his own foul this is the decree of heaven, as old as the world. But fo it is, that man mindeth nothing less than what he should most mind: and defpifeth to enquire into his own being, its original, duty, and end; chufing rather. to dedicate his days (the steps he should make to bleffedness) to gratify the pride, avarice, and luxury of his heart; as if he had been born for himself, or rather given himself being, and fo not fubject to the reckoning To this and judgment of a fuperior power.

wild and lamentable pass hath poor man brought himself by his disobedience to the law of God in his heart, by doing that which he knows he should not do, and leaving undone what he knows he should do. And as long as this disease continueth upon man, he will make his God his enemy, and himself uncapable of the love and falvation that he hath manifefted

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