William Law

Gebundenes Buch

The Spirit of Love, Being an Appendix to the Spirit of Prayer

Beschreibung

1752. This book discusses the spirit of love in a letter to a friend. The friend's objections rather tend to stir up the powers of love, than the wrangle of a rational debate, so Mr. Law considered them only as motives and occasions of edifying both his friend and himself with the truth, the power, and divine blessedness of the spirit of love. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.

Autor

William Law, born in 1686, became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1711, but in 1714, at the death of Queen Anne, he became a non-Juror: that is to say, he found himself unable to take the required oath of allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty (who had replaced the Stuart dynasty) as the lawful rulers of the United Kingdom, and was accordingly ineligible to serve as a university teacher or parish minister. He became for ten years a private tutor in the family of the historian Edward Gibbon (who, despite his generally cynical attitude toward all things Christian, invariably wrote of Law with respect and admiration), and then retired to his native King's Cliffe. Forbidden the use of the pulpit and the lecture-hall, he preached through his books. These include Christian Perfection, the Spirit of Love, the Spirit of Prayer, and, best-known of all, A Serious Call To a Devout and Holy Life, published in 1728.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 986g
• ISBN-13: 9781161400335
• ISBN-10: 1161400338
• Artikelnr.: 31109213