...think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When .it nvited myself, to several parts of the kingdom ; and will not From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just...

...MD Published by Millar in 1753. Gent. Mag. 1753, p. 202. 3 'When I was at Oxford,' said Johnson, ' 1 took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me.' Life, i. 68. 4 A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, by the late Rich. Helsham, MD Gent. Mag....

...Law's other excellent treatise, the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : 'Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' 'Mr. Law's...

...Law's other excellent treatise, the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : ' Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' ' Mr....

...up Law's 'Serious Call,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry."* This book also deeply influenced Wesley, Venn, and other leaders in the Evangelical Revival of the...

...obligations to the " Serious Call." "When at Oxford," he says, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." By the same robust writer the " Serious Call " was further described as " the finest...

...at Oxford," he says, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book and perhaps to laugh at it. Bat I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." By the same robust writer the " Serious Call " was further described as " the finest...

...will be but an irksome task.' Johnson, though not a diligent, was a voracious and feverish reader. book, as such books generally are, and perhaps to...this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest about religion.' The non-juror's strangely impressive blending of masculine common sense, literary...

...Protestants. For example, we have the testimony of no less a person than Dr. Johnson, who said : — When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Call to a...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry. The Wesleys walked from Oxford to Putney on foot, from time to time, in order to see Law, who was then...

...not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. After we came out of the church, we stood talking...prove the nonexistence of matter, and that everything From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just...