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See also:LAW, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1686-1761) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Cliff e, See also:Northamptonshire. In 17o5 he entered as a See also:sizar at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected See also:fellow of his college and was ordained. He resided at Cambridge, teaching and taking occasional See also:duty until the See also:accession of See also:George I., when his See also:conscience forbade him to take the oaths of See also:allegiance to the new See also:government and of See also:abjuration of the Stuarts. His Jacobitism had already been betrayed in a tripos speech which brought him into trouble; and he was now deprived of his fellowship and became a non-juror. For the next few years he is said to have been a See also:curate in See also:London. By 1727 he was domiciled with See also:Edward See also:Gibbon (1666–1736) at Putney as See also:tutor to his son Edward, See also:father of the historian, who says that Law became " the much honoured friend and spiritual director of the whole See also:family." In the same See also:year he accompanied his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil to Cambridge, and resided with him as See also:governor, in See also:term See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, for the next four years. His pupil then went abroad, but Law was See also:left at Putney, where he remained in Gibbon's See also:house for more than ten years, acting as a religious See also:guide not only to the family but to a number of See also:earnest-minded folk who came to consult him. The most eminent of these were the two See also:brothers See also:John and See also:Charles See also:Wesley, John See also:Byrom the poet, George See also:Cheyne the physician and See also:Archibald See also:Hutcheson, M.P. for See also:Hastings. The See also:household was dispersed in 1737. Law was parted from his See also:friends, and in 174o retired to King's Cliffe, where he had inherited from his father a house and a small See also:property. There he was presently joined by two ladies: Mrs Hutcheson, the See also:rich widow of his old friend, who recommended her on his See also:death-See also:bed to See also:place herself under Law's spiritual guidance, and See also:Miss Hester Gibbon, See also:sister to his See also:late pupil. This curious trio lived for twenty-one years a See also:life wholly given to devotion, study and charity, until the death of Law on the 9th of See also:April 1761.
Law was a busy writer under three heads:
1. Controversy.—In this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field he had no contemporary peer See also:save perhaps See also:Richard See also:Bentley. The first of his controversial See also:works was Three Letters to the See also:Bishop of See also:Bangor (1717), which were considered by friend and foe alike as one of the most powerful contributions to the
Bangorian controversy on the high See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:side. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Sherlock declared that " Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one See also:good See also:reason why his lordship did not See also:answer him." Law's next controversial See also:work was Remarks on See also:Mandeville's See also:Fable of the Bees (1723), in which he vindicates morality on the highest grounds; for pure See also:style, See also:caustic wit and lucid See also:argument this work is remarkable; it was enthusiastically praised by John See also:Sterling, and republished by F. D. See also:Maurice. Law's See also:Case of Reason (1732), in answer to See also:Tindal's See also:Christianity as old as the Creation is to a See also:great extent an anticipation of Bishop See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler's famous argument in the See also:Analogy. In this work Law shows himself at least the equal of the ablest See also:champion of See also:Deism. His Letters to a See also:Lady inclined to enter the Church of See also:Rome are excellent specimens of the attitude of a high See also:Anglican towards Romanism. His controversial writings have not received due recognition, partly because they were opposed to the See also:drift of his times, partly because of his success in other See also:fields.
2. See also:Practical Divinity.—The Serious See also:Call to a Devout and See also:Holy Life (1728), together with its predecessor, A See also:Treatise of See also:Christian Perfection (1726), deeply influenced the See also:chief actors in the great Evangelical revival. The'Wesleys, George See also:Whitefield, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Venn, Thomas See also:Scott and Thomas See also:Adam all See also:express their deep See also:obligation to the author. The Serious Call affected others quite as deeply. See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, Gibbon, See also:Lord See also:Lyttelton and Bishop See also:Horne all spoke enthusiastically of its merits; and it is still the only work by which its author is popularly known. It has high merits of style, being lucid and pointed to a degree. In a See also:tract entitled The See also:Absolute Unlawfulness of See also:Stage Entertainments (1726) Law was tempted by the corruptions of the stage of the See also:period to use unreasonable See also:language, and incurred some effective See also:criticism from John See also:Dennis in The Stage Defended.
3. See also:Mysticism.—Though the least popular, by far the most interesting, See also:original and suggestive of all Law's works are those which he wrote in his later years, after he had become an enthusiastic admirer (not a See also:disciple) of See also:Jacob See also:Boehme, the See also:Teutonic theosophist. From his earliest years he had been deeply impressed with the piety, beauty and thoughtfulness of the writings of the Christian mystics, but it was not till after his accidental See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with the works of Boehme, about 1734, that pronounced mysticism appeared in his works. Law's mystic tendencies divorced him from the practical-minded Wesley, but in spite of occasional See also:wild fancies the books are See also:worth See also:reading. They are A Demonstration of the See also:Gross and Fundamental Errors of a late See also:Book called a " See also:Plain See also:Account, &c., of the Lord's Supper " (1737) ; The Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Regeneration (1739) ; An See also:Appeal to all that Doubt and Disbelieve the Truths of See also:Revelation (1740); An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr Trapp's See also:Sermon on being Righteous Overmuch (1740); The Spirit of See also:Prayer (1749, 1752) ; The Way to Divine Knowledge (1752) ; The Spirit of Love (1752, 1754) ; A See also:Short but Sufficient Confutation of Dr See also:Warburton's Projected See also:Defence (as he calls it) of Christianity in his " Divine See also:Legation of See also:Moses " (1757) ; A See also:Series of Letters (176o) ; a See also:Dialogue between a Methodist and a Churchman (1760); and An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the See also:Clergy (1761).
Richard See also:Tighe wrote a short account of Law's life in 1813. See also See also:Christopher See also:Walton, Notes and Materials for a See also:Complete See also:Biography of W. Law (1848) ; See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, English Thought in the 78th See also:century, and in the Dict. Nat. Biog. (xxxii. 236) ; W. H. See also:Lecky, See also:History of See also:England in the 18th Century; C. J. See also:Abbey, The English Church in the 18th Century; and J. H. Overton, William Law, Non-juror and Mystic (1881).
End of Article: LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)
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