A PRACTICAL TREATISE UPON CHRISTIAN PERFECTION. By WILLIAM LAW, A. M. The THIRD EDITION. Not as though I had already attained, either were LONDON: Printed for W. INNYS and R. MANBY, at the 1419. 52741 THE CONTENTS. HE nature and defign of Christianity, that its fole end is to deliver us from the mifery and dif order of this prefent ftate, and raise us to a The neceffity of divine grace, obligeth all Chriftians to a conftant purity, and holiness of conversation; A PRACTICAL TREATISE UPON Chriftian Perfection. The INTRODUCTION. HRISTIAN Perfection will perhaps seem to the common reader to imply some state of life which every one need not aspire after; that it is made up of fuch ftrictneffes, retirements, and particularities of devotion, as are neither neceffary, nor practicable by the generality of Chriftians. BUT I must answer for myself, that I know of only one common Chriftianity, which is to be the common means of falvation to all men. |