CHARACTERS OF THIS WORK. 1. By Dr. Johnson. When at Oxford, I took 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, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.—Vide Boswell's Life of Johnson, 3rd edit. vol. 1. p. 43. 2. He much commended Law's Serious Call,' which he said was the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.—Ibid. vol. 2. p. 118. t 3. This excellent treatise is wrote in a strong and nervous style, and abounds with many new and sublime thoughts: in a word, one may say of this book, as Sir Richard Steel did of a Discourse of Dr. South's, that it has in it whatever wit or wisdom could put together; and I will venture to add, that whoever sits down, without prejudice, and attentively reads it throughout, will rise up the wiser man and better Christian.-Vide Gents. Mag. Nov. 1800. 4. The Writings of the Rev. Wm. Law will remain an everlasting testimony of the strength and purity of the English language.-John Wesley. ΤΟ Α DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE, ADAPTED TO THE STATE AND CONDITION OF ALL ORDERS BY WILLIAM LAW, A. M. Eighteenth Edition, CORRECTED. To which is added, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR, AND THREE LETTERS TO A FRIEND, Not before published in any of his Works. Also, TWO LETTERS from He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.-St. LUKE viii. 8. And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me.➡REV. xxii. 12. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BAYNES, 54, PATER- NOSTER-ROW; BY J. AND J. JACKSON, MARKET-PLACE, LOUTH. 1816. CM |