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The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister…
The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister of the Gospel Mr. Hanserd Knollys who dyed in the ninety third year of his age written with his own hand to the year 1672 ; and continued in general in an epistle by Mr. William Kiffin.
London: printed for John Harris, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: Mr. Knollys's last Legacy to the Church, written a little before his Death.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We have cause to repent of our Formality, and Laodicean Lukewarmness, especially for want of zeal for the House of God, Psal. 69.9. Rev. 3.19. Col. 4.12, 13. Joh. 2.17.
Secondly, I Counsel you to be zealous: Zeal is a fervent and constant affection of a gracious Soul, in a good thing, managed with Discretion, Gal. 4.18. If our zeal be not fixed upon a right Object, and good Matter; it may be hot, and great, but it cannot be good. Compare the zeal of Paul, Phil. 3.6. with the zeal of Epaphras, Col. 4.12, 13.
To guide our zeal aright, two things especially ought to accompany it.