SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE. ADAPTED TO THE STATE AND CONDITION OF ALL ORDERS OF CHRISTIANS. BY WILLIAM LAW, A. M. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, BY THE REV. DAVID YOUNG, PERTH. GLASGOW: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM COLLINS; WILLIAM WHYTE & CO. AND WILLIAM OLIPHANT, EDINBURGH; "LAW's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life" is a master-piece in its department. Taking up his position on the principles of a sound Theology, instructed and illumined from the Word of God, he shows his reader, with a most arousing force of argument, that devotion is not an affair of circumstances, and seasons, and ceremonies, but the business of a lifetime, or the consecration of a man, in soul, and body, and spirit, and amidst all the incidents which chequer his lot, to the spiritual service of the Father of Spirits that piety and pure morality are not detached, but correlate attainments, arising from the same source, bearing on the same end, tending to foster each other in their growth to perfection, and waxing or waning in company-that the all-pervading cause of a partial or total impiety, is the obstinate atheism of the human heart-that nothing short of a purpose of piety, deliberately formed and vigorously prosecuted as the great end of human life, can be pleasing to God, or accordant with the dictates of sound wisdom, or warrant the hope of shelter from the wrath which is to come. He farther |