A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life edition by William Law Religion Spirituality eBooks
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"...We are to look wholly unto Him, and act wholly for Him; that we are only to pray in such a manner, for such things, and such ends, as are suitable to His glory."
A Serious Call provides a solemn injunction for Christians to live "lives worthy of their calling." Since God is considered the greatest good, what ought this mean for the Christian life? This text has made an indelible impression on generations of Christians; of this number are George Whitefield and the Wesley brothers.
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life edition by William Law Religion Spirituality eBooks
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life edition by William Law Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
I read this book when I heard Jack Hayford mention it during one of his sermons. Given the title and era in which it was written, I expected it to contain some pretty weighty material about Christian living. I was not disappointed.
In this book, Law challenges the reader to respond to his "serious call" (and he was very serious when he wrote it) to devout living. The author makes a very solid case for this approach to Christian living for two main reasons. First, he is dead right about most topics he covers. His main point is that many Christians (I fall into this category) take for granted what God has done for us. There is no higher call than to love and serve Him. Yet we do not place as much value on spending time in devotion (prayer, reading scripture, praising, worshiping, serving) to God as we should. Instead we lived unbalanced lives in which God has a secondary role, instead being the primary focus of our existence.
Secondly, as another reviewer mentioned, his message is as relevant today, if not more so, than when it was written. We live in a day were modesty and pious living are completely ignored. It was refreshing to read a book which calls Christians to a much higher standard - we should not crave the things of this world. It is something I have struggled with, and continue to struggle with everyday that I live in overly abundant America. This book has helped me regain a more proper perspective on the importance of living for God (and what that means) versus living for the world.
I highly recommend this book to any Christian looking for a well written resource about living a life devoted to God. Law provides a lot of deep thought about the subject, and practical ways to try and live it out. At times, he goes a little bit too much into legalism for my taste, but overall he is on the mark with his approach and logic for his "serious call".
Do not purchase. Number of typos on the book is beyond annoying. 88 pages, 3 columns per page, 10% of the text on each page is garbled or in cypher text.
For putting us in a fitting frame of mind, for impressing upon us the deeper things of the faith, for shaking folly off, for directing our gaze heavenward, this book is worthy of being called "a classic in the realm of Christian literature".
I first read about "Serious Call" in a biography of Samuel Johnson. That brilliant man, who gave us our first important dictionary of the English language, was deeply convicted by it. If such a clear thinker as he, an unbeliever, found it compelling, it must be good! And indeed, it is. Very good.
My "but" is that having read more of his work, I realize that Law had some strange beliefs. Therefore I cannot fully endorse him as a teacher. These beliefs are, for example, expressed in The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration Or the New Birth. And his error is also revealed, in my view, in the rigid and unrealistic prayer regime that he recommends. (He would deny that it is unrealistic.) Otherwise, however, "Serious Call" is largely free from teachings that would mislead, and Law does show with lucid argument and from the scriptures why "extremeness" is the true Christian way; by this he would mean extreme charity, humility and meekness, trust in God, self-denial, and shunning the ways of the world. Some of his memorable sayings
"The fuller of pride any one is himself, the more impatient will he be at the smallest instances of it in other people."
"The best way for any one to know how much he ought to aspire after holiness, is to consider, not how much will make his present life easy, but to ask himself, how much he thinks will make him easy at the hour of death."
Again, in some areas it seems Law was undiscerning - too accepting, for example, of some of the mystics. Apparently others have had similar concerns, so some caution is advisable. However this book is valuable for putting us in a right frame of mind for devotion and obedience. It is worthy to be read and re-read.
I was aware of this book as a young believer, but not very interested in it because I was not that interested in living a devout and holy life. I wanted to be good and serve the Lord and did seek the Lord fairly diligently, but preferred to avoid radical holiness. After going through some rather severe chastisement from the Father (see Hebrews chap. 12) I became very interested in becoming a partaker of His holiness. I strongly desired the "peaceable fruit of righteousness" promised to them that are "exercised thereby." This book is great for helping the serious reader come into a devout and holy life. I recommend it to all believers -- that they take the Lord's demands for holiness seriously. It could help you avoid some serious problems. The cited chapter in Hebrews says that all God's children are partakers of chastisement, but some is much more severe than other spankings.
And our desire for holiness should not be mainly to avoid chastisement, but to please the Lord. That is one of Mr Law's main points -- Christians are not living holy lives because they have never set their hearts to please the Lord in all things. We need to do that.
The first paragraph is a disclaimer that as an historic text an- being created using character recognition software-may have typos. What an understatement-it is virtually illegible. Returning and buying a real copy made with human eyes. Maybe this was mentioned in the description and I didn’t notice.
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