 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up 'Law's6 Serious Call to a Holy Lift,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in the author of the best French comedy after Mollere, was atrabilious, and Moliere himself saturnine.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...When at Oxford, I took up 'Law's 6 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (us such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in the author of the best French comedy after Molière, was atrabilious, and Molière himself saturnine.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pages
...A still higher testimony to Law's powers is furnished by Dr Johnson : " When at Oxford," says he, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same work, it is stated, produced such an effect on John Wesley, that no sooner had he perused... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...religion, 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...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry. FALSE TEACHING. I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the... | |
 | 1867 - 548 pages
...insensible to the earnestness which breathes in Law's practical writings. " When at Oxford," he says, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it ; but I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was... | |
 | 1868 - 846 pages
...took up Law's Serious Cull to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion He (Johnson) much commended Law's Serious Call, which he said was the finest piece of hortatory theology... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1870 - 590 pages
...effect on Dr. Johnson. "When at Oxford," says Johnson, "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." * Ibid. vol. xi., p. 352. 1727 Wesley's intentions were as sincere and pure as... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 pages
...Life, expecting to tlud it a dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps laugh at it. But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after 1 became capable of rational inquiry.' . . . Ho [Johnson } much commended Law's Serious Call, which,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pages
...Treatise 011 Christian Perfection, are still aniuug our most popular works ou practical religion. - \Mi-ii at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy...dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for m«; and this wae the first occasion of my thinking... | |
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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... 
