 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 Seiten
...not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered1. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry3.' From this time forward religion too often happens, intercepted his reformation.' Johnson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 Seiten
...Holy Life. He relates that he took the volume up, expecting to find it dull and open to ridicule. " But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this...earnest of Religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." Henceforth it was impossible for him to live any longer at random; he took a Master, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 Seiten
...for I did not much think against. it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's * Serious...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry."2 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow in 1711,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 Seiten
...for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went .to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's * Serious...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry."2 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow in 1711,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 496 Seiten
...MD Published by Millar in 1753. Gent. Mag. 1753, p. 202. 3 'When I was at Oxford,' said Johnson, ' 1 took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me.' Life, i. 68. 4 A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, by the late Rich. Helsham, MD Gent. Mag.... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 386 Seiten
...Law's other excellent treatise, the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : 'Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' 'Mr. Law's... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 402 Seiten
...Law's other excellent treatise, the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : ' Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' ' Mr.... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1893 - 760 Seiten
...up Law's 'Serious Call,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry."* This book also deeply influenced Wesley, Venn, and other leaders in the Evangelical Revival of the... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 Seiten
...obligations to the " Serious Call." "When at Oxford," he says, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." By the same robust writer the " Serious Call " was further described as " the finest... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 Seiten
...at Oxford," he says, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book and perhaps to laugh at it. Bat I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." By the same robust writer the " Serious Call " was further described as " the finest... | |
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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... 
