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The life which he recommended in his practical treatises , and lived himself to the
very letter , was about as different as one can conceive from the easy - going life
of the eighteenth century ; while even those who were stirred to the inmost ...
The life which he recommended in his practical treatises , and lived himself to the
very letter , was about as different as one can conceive from the easy - going life
of the eighteenth century ; while even those who were stirred to the inmost ...
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Law himself thought his remarks upon the stage so important that he transferred
them almost word for word to the pages of his ' Christian Perfection , the first of his
great practical treatises , which was published in the same year as the Tract on ...
Law himself thought his remarks upon the stage so important that he transferred
them almost word for word to the pages of his ' Christian Perfection , the first of his
great practical treatises , which was published in the same year as the Tract on ...
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Intending the work to be exclusively what he termed it , “ a practical treatise , ' he
carefully avoided all nice points of doctrine , and defined Christian perfection , at
the outset , in a way to which no one who accepted Christianity at all could take ...
Intending the work to be exclusively what he termed it , “ a practical treatise , ' he
carefully avoided all nice points of doctrine , and defined Christian perfection , at
the outset , in a way to which no one who accepted Christianity at all could take ...
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... and the practical good which it effected far overbalanced the possible harm
which a misuse of some of its sentiments may to a slight extent have caused .
Weighty testimony to the beneficial effects which it produced might be multiplied
to an ...
... and the practical good which it effected far overbalanced the possible harm
which a misuse of some of its sentiments may to a slight extent have caused .
Weighty testimony to the beneficial effects which it produced might be multiplied
to an ...
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3 And , not to weary the reader , it may suffice to quote one more very practical
illustration of the influence which the Christian Perfection ' exercised . Shortly
after its publication , it is reported that as Law was standing in his publisher's
shop , in ...
3 And , not to weary the reader , it may suffice to quote one more very practical
illustration of the influence which the Christian Perfection ' exercised . Shortly
after its publication , it is reported that as Law was standing in his publisher's
shop , in ...
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