The Spirit of Prayer

Name: The Spirit of Prayer
Author: 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: 1750
Category: Prayer
Length: 69k words · about 5 hours
Chapters: 14
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 94% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Kore · American English

About this book

A treatise on the inner life of prayer by William Law, the English devotional writer, published in 1750. Law describes prayer not as occasional words but as the spirit of a life continually turned toward God in humility and desire. Calm and searching, it belongs with his better-known Serious Call as a guide to sincere, wholehearted devotion before God.

Chapter I. Treating of Some Matters Preparatory to the Spirit of Prayer
Chapter II. Discovering the True way of Turning to God, and of Finding the Kingdom of Heaven, the Riches of Eternity in our Souls · Part 1 🔒
Chapter II. Discovering the True way of Turning to God, and of Finding the Kingdom of Heaven, the Riches of Eternity in our Souls · Part 2 🔒
Chapter II. Discovering the True way of Turning to God, and of Finding the Kingdom of Heaven, the Riches of Eternity in our Souls · Part 3 🔒
The First Dialogue · Part 1 🔒
The First Dialogue · Part 2 🔒
The First Dialogue · Part 3 🔒
The Second Dialogue · Part 1 🔒
The Second Dialogue · Part 2 🔒
The Second Dialogue · Part 3 🔒
The Third Dialogue · Part 1 🔒
The Third Dialogue · Part 2 🔒
The Third Dialogue · Part 3 🔒
The Third Dialogue · Part 4 🔒