William Law (1686–1761) was an English Anglican priest and spiritual writer. A fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he lost his post as a nonjuror, refusing to swear allegiance to George I, and spent his later years in devout retirement at King's Cliffe. His A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729) deeply influenced John Wesley and Samuel Johnson; our library also holds The Spirit of Prayer and his treatise on Christian perfection.
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William Law's refutation of the rationalistic theology fashionable in his day, published in 1727. Law, later known for A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, here argues that reason detached from revelation cannot reach the truth of religion, and he exposes the errors he found in the writers he opposed. An early work of a searching and uncompromising mind.