No Cross, No Crown (Annotated)

No Cross, No Crown is William Penn's classic work of Christian moral exhortation, a searching argument that spiritual glory is inseparable from self-denial. Written in a plain yet forceful prose characteristic of early Quaker apologetic literature, the book attacks vanity, luxury, worldly ambition, and empty religious formalism, urging instead inward discipline, humility, and obedience to the "cro...