Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1809 edition. Extrait: ...de feu ardentes, qui sont les sept esprit de Dieu; et au devant du trone etoit une mer de verre semblable a du cristal; et au milieu du trone quatre animaux pleins d'yeux devant et derriere: et le premier animal etoit sem. blable a un lion, le second semblable a un veau, le troisieme avoit le visage comme celui d'un homme, et le quatrieme etoit semblable a un aigle qui vole. Ces quatre ani. maux avaient chacun six ailes et ils etoient pleins d'yeux; et sans se reposer ni jour ni nuit ils disoient: Saint, Saint, Saint est le Seigneur Dieu tout puissant, qui etoit et qui est, et qui esi a venir. Et quand les animaux donnaient gloire, honneur et action de graces a celui qui etoit assis sur le trone, a celui qui est vivant aux siecles des siecles, les vingt-quatre Anciens se prosternoient devant celui qui etoit assis sur le trone, et ils jetoient leurs couronnes devant le trone, en disant: Seigneur tu es digne de recevoir gloire, honneur et puissance, car tu as cree toutes choses etc. Ces paroles, si elevees et si mysterieuses au lieu d'embarrasser ma tete t ne font qu'enflammer mon coeur, et emporte sur les ailes des animaux, je chante avec eux le cantique de louange et d'honneur, et je me prosterne ensuite avec les Anciens qui adorent la puissance et la grandeur du Seigneur du ciel et de la terre. Vous voyez, que je n'ai pas besoin qu'un savant Grec ou Hebreu vienne m'expliquer ce qu'il faut entendre par les Sept Esprits de Dieu, pourquoi il y a quatre sorLes d'animaux, ayant chacun six ailes, ni...
William Law was an English cleric and theological writer. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was elected a fellow in 1711, the year of his ordination. He declined to take the oath of loyalty to King George I, in 1714, and was deprived of his fellowship. He became the tutor of Edward Gibbon, father of the famous historian. Later he returned to his birthplace of King's Cliffe where he lived the rest of his life, though he was known throughout England for his speaking and writing.
His writing of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), together with its predecessor, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726), deeply influenced the chief actors in the great Evangelical revival.
John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author. The Serious Call also affected others deeply.
William Law, born inKing's Cliffe, England, in 1686, became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1711, but in 1714, at the death of Queen Anne, he became a non-Juror: that is to say, he found himself unable to take the required oath of allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty (who had replaced the Stuart dynasty) as the lawful rulers of the United Kingdom, and was accordingly ineligible to serve as a university teacher or parish minister.
He became for ten years a private tutor in the family of the historian, Edward Gibbon (who, despite his generally cynical attitude toward all things Christian, invariably wrote of Law with respect and admiration), and then retired to his native King's Cliffe. Forbidden the use of the pulpit and the lecture-hall, he preached through his books. These include - Christian Perfection, the Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, Spirit of Prayer, the Way to Divine Knowledge, Spirit of Love, and, best-known of all, A Serious Call To a Devout and Holy Life, published in 1728.
Law's most influential work is A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, written in 1728. In this book, he extols the virtue of living a life totally devoted to the glory of God. Although he is considered a high-churchman, his writing influenced many evangelicals, including George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, Henry Martyn, and others such as Samuel Johnson. In addition to his writing, Law spent the final years of his life founding schools and almshouses, and in other practical ministries.
William Law died in 1761 just a few days after his last book, An Affectionate Address to the Clergy, went to the printers.
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