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The Spirit of Love

The Spirit of Love

by William Law

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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First published
1754
Category
Devotional
Length
62k words · about 4 hours
Chapters
14

About this book

A late work of William Law, published in 1754, on the spirit of love as the very life of God and the true end of religion. Law argues that wrath, pride, and selfhood belong to the fallen nature, while love is God's own nature to be formed in us. Earnest and searching, it gathers the central burden of his later devotional writing.

Contents

  1. Part I. In a Letter to a Friend · Part 1
  2. Part I. In a Letter to a Friend · Part 2 🔒
  3. Part I. In a Letter to a Friend · Part 3 🔒
  4. Dialog 1 · Part 1 🔒
  5. Dialog 1 · Part 2 🔒
  6. Dialog 1 · Part 3 🔒
  7. Dialog 1 · Part 4 🔒
  8. Dialog 2 · Part 1 🔒
  9. Dialog 2 · Part 2 🔒
  10. Dialog 2 · Part 3 🔒
  11. Dialog 3 · Part 1 🔒
  12. Dialog 3 · Part 2 🔒
  13. Dialog 3 · Part 3 🔒
  14. Dialog 3 · Part 4 🔒

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