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Early Modern · 1729
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
William Law · 1686–1761
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What it is
An argument, carried by a gallery of sharply drawn character sketches, that the reason most Christians never become devout is not weakness but that they never seriously intended to.
Why it lasted
The book that shook the Wesleys, Whitefield, and Samuel Johnson, and one of the direct causes of the Evangelical Revival.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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