Laws
Practical Treatise

UPON

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION:

EIGHTH EDITION.

WITH HIS

ABSOLUTE UNLAWFULNESS

OF THE

STAGE ENTERTAINMENT,

LATELY PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOP,

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I. Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to

the state and condition of all orders of Christians,
by W. LAW, A. M. The sixteenth edition, cor-
rected; to which is added some account of the
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published in any of his works; also Two Letters
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TREATISE

UPON

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION:

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDEV, BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

The Absolute unlawfulness

OF THE

STAGE ENTERTAINMENT

FULLY DEMONSTRATED.

BY WILLIAM LAW, A. M.

THE EIGHTH EDITION,
With a Preface, contuining an Account of the Work, and

Extracts from Bishop Horne.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect.

Phil. iii. 32.

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CONTENTS.

THE INTRODUCTION.

CHAP. I.

PAGE

The nature and design of Christianity, that its

sole end is to deliver us from the misery and

disorder of this present state, and raise us to

a blissful enjoyment of the divine nature. 9

CHAP. II.

Christianity requires a change of nature, a

new life perfectly devoted to God

26

CHAP. III.

Chistianity requireth a renunciation of the world,

and all worldly tempers

43

CHAP. IV.

A continuation of the same subject

60

CHAP. V.

A further continuation of the same subject 79

CHAP. VI.

Christianity calleth all men to a state of self-

denial and mortification

103

CHAP. VII.

Some farther considerations upon the reasonable-

ness of self-denial

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