 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 páginas
...Law's * Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry."2 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow in 1711,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian, he lamented that his practice of its duties fell far short... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 páginas
...that there he took up Law's Serious Call and found it quite an overmatch for him. ' This,' he said, ' was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of rational enquiry.' During the vacation of 1729 he had a serious illness (ante, \. 73), which most likely was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 480 páginas
...up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh 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.... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1893 - 760 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 386 páginas
...Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...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... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 402 páginas
...Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...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.... | |
 | 1893 - 1110 páginas
...of his nature. It was at Oxford that, after reading Law's 'Serious Call,' he wrote in his diary : " This was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." But doubtless the soil was well prepared ; he had a devout nature and a religious mother, and the impressions... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 páginas
...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... | |
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Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I... 
