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This collection contains the following books:
A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors Of a late book, called A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
An Appeal To all that Doubt, or Disbelieve The Truths of the Gospel, Whether They be Deists, Arians, Socinians, Or Nominal Christians
An Humble, Affectionate, and Earnest Address to the Clergy
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, Or the New-Birth Offered to the Consideration of Christians and Deists
The Way to Divine Knowledge being several Dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus As preparatory to a new edition of the works of Jacob Behmen; and the right use of them
A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects, and On Several Occasions
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), together with its predecessor, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726), deeply influenced the chief actors in the great Evangelical revival. John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author. The Serious Call also affected others deeply. Samuel Johnson, Gibbon, Lord Lyttelton and Bishop Home all spoke enthusiastically of its merits; and it is still the only work by which its author is popularly known. It has high merits of style, being lucid and pointed to a degree. In a tract entitled The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments (1726) Law was tempted by the corruptions of the stage of the period to use unreasonable language, and incurred some effective criticism from John Dennis in The Stage Defended.
A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors Of a late book, called A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
An Appeal To all that Doubt, or Disbelieve The Truths of the Gospel, Whether They be Deists, Arians, Socinians, Or Nominal Christians
An Humble, Affectionate, and Earnest Address to the Clergy
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, Or the New-Birth Offered to the Consideration of Christians and Deists
The Way to Divine Knowledge being several Dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus As preparatory to a new edition of the works of Jacob Behmen; and the right use of them
A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects, and On Several Occasions
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), together with its predecessor, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726), deeply influenced the chief actors in the great Evangelical revival. John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author. The Serious Call also affected others deeply. Samuel Johnson, Gibbon, Lord Lyttelton and Bishop Home all spoke enthusiastically of its merits; and it is still the only work by which its author is popularly known. It has high merits of style, being lucid and pointed to a degree. In a tract entitled The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments (1726) Law was tempted by the corruptions of the stage of the period to use unreasonable language, and incurred some effective criticism from John Dennis in The Stage Defended.
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William Law was an English cleric and theological writer. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was elected a fellow in 1711, the year of his ordination. He declined to take the oath of loyalty to King George I, in 1714, and was deprived of his fellowship. He became the tutor of Edward Gibbon, father of the famous historian. Later he returned to his birthplace of King's Cliffe where he lived the rest of his life, though he was known throughout England for his speaking and writing.
His writing of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), together with its predecessor, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726), deeply influenced the chief actors in the great Evangelical revival.
John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author. The Serious Call also affected others deeply.
William Law, born inKing's Cliffe, England, in 1686, became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1711, but in 1714, at the death of Queen Anne, he became a non-Juror: that is to say, he found himself unable to take the required oath of allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty (who had replaced the Stuart dynasty) as the lawful rulers of the United Kingdom, and was accordingly ineligible to serve as a university teacher or parish minister.
He became for ten years a private tutor in the family of the historian, Edward Gibbon (who, despite his generally cynical attitude toward all things Christian, invariably wrote of Law with respect and admiration), and then retired to his native King's Cliffe. Forbidden the use of the pulpit and the lecture-hall, he preached through his books. These include - Christian Perfection, the Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, Spirit of Prayer, the Way to Divine Knowledge, Spirit of Love, and, best-known of all, A Serious Call To a Devout and Holy Life, published in 1728.
Law's most influential work is A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, written in 1728. In this book, he extols the virtue of living a life totally devoted to the glory of God. Although he is considered a high-churchman, his writing influenced many evangelicals, including George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, Henry Martyn, and others such as Samuel Johnson. In addition to his writing, Law spent the final years of his life founding schools and almshouses, and in other practical ministries.
William Law died in 1761 just a few days after his last book, An Affectionate Address to the Clergy, went to the printers.
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