A PRACTICAL TREATISE UPON Christian Perfection BY WILLIAM LAW, M.A. = AUTHOR OF A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE' EDITED BY L. H. M. SOULSBY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY 1901 PREFACE WILLIAM LAW, 1686-1761, was born two years before the Revolution, and died a year after George III. came to the throne. His career as a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was interrupted by his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to George I. He came into notice soon afterwards by his Letters in reply (from the High Church standpoint) to a Broad Church sermon of Bishop Hoadley of Bangor, Letters which Bishop Ewing ranks with Pascal's Provincial Letters. Next came his defence of morality, which had been attacked by Mandeville in The Fable of the Bees, an essay in which John Sterling found 'a weight of pithy, right reason, such as fills one's heart with joy.' This controversial work was done when he was between thirty and forty, and then came his main works on practical religion-A Practical V |