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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.
First, The light of Knowledge, Rom. 10.1, 2, 3. Read the words again and again, and as often as you read this Paper. Many professors of the ⟨p. 50⟩Law then, were very zealous of Establishing their own Legal Righteousness, and many professors of the Gospel, now, are as zealous, to establish their own Legal Righteousness, and not Christs. O! say some, If I could pray so, mourn so as others do; if I were so Holy and so Humble, &c. then I would believe. O! say others, if I could get power over my Corruptions, and strength against Satan's Temptations, and Victory over the allurements of this present evil World, then I would believe: But I have a Heart full of vile affections, vain thoughts and doubts, that I cannot believe.
First, The light of Knowledge, Rom. 10.1, 2, 3. Read the words again and again, and as often as you read this Paper. Many professours of the ⟨p. 50⟩Law then, were very zealous of Establishing their own Legal Righteousness, and many professors of the Gospel, now, are as zealous, to establish their own Legal Righteousness, and not Christs. O! say some, If I could pray so, mourn so as others do; if I were so Holy and so Humble, &c. then I would believe. O! say others, if I could get power over my Corruptions, and strength against Satans Temptations, and Victory over the allurements of this present evil World, then I would believe: But I have a Heart full of vile affections, vain thoughts and doubts, that I cannot believe.
Consider, Are Praying, Mourning, Humbling our Souls, Gospel Duties? even so is believing a Gospel Duty, which God Commands, 1 Joh. 3.23. And he threatens to Damn them that hear the Gospel preached, and will not believe,