 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." About his particular studies at Oxford not much is known. What he read solidly there was, he tells... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." About his particular studies at Oxford not much is known. What he read solidly there was, he tells... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester) - Theology - 1899 - 572 pages
...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...earnest of religion after I became capable of rational enquiry.' Again : ' he much commended Law's Serious Call, which, he said, was the finest piece of hortatory... | |
 | 1877 - 992 pages
...Call, "expecting to find it," as he confessed, " a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it" He added : " But I found Law quite an overmatch for me : and this...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." Boswell states that from that time religion became the predominant object of Johnson's" thoughts. "Wesley... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are). But I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'1 But it was on the leaders of the Evangelical revival—on those of the second as well as... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens - 1879 - 500 pages
...perhaps to laugh at it. These are his own words, but says he, ' I found Law an overmatch for me, and that was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry. Now of this book I intend always to read a chapter every morning ; I am sure it will be of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...Life,' expecting to find it a doll book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. Bat I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was...predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian, he lamented that bis practice of its duties fell far short... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - Great Britain - 1881 - 272 pages
...Doctor, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call,' expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally are. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." In another place Dr. Johnson says that Law's " Serious Call " " is the finest piece of hortatory... | |
 | John Henry Overton - Mysticism - 1881 - 504 pages
...Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are). But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this...was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.' 2 On another occasion he called it 'the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language,' and on... | |
 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...Serious Call to a Holy Life,' " he says, "expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally are, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The solemnity of feeling in regard to religious subjects he never afterwards lost, although he himself... | |
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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... 
