William Law's Unconventional Advice On Lasting Love
Law teaches that if god is our greatest good, then the wisest way to live is to please god through a life of worship, adoration, and devotion. Since many fail to live this way, law. The electronic ascii version of william law's the spirit of love in two parts, etc was transcribed in 1995 by warner white working from the 1974 georg olms verlag (hildesheim newyork). This doctrine of pure and universal love may be too refined and imaginary, because you find that however you like it, yet you cannot attain to it, or overcome all that in your nature which is. Love has to rule as william law reiterates time and again:
All its gifts and graces are the gifts and graces of love. Love breathes the spirit of god. This double selection, edited from first texts instead of. Law‟s last work, the spirit of love shows that law forsook the more practical approach to christianity as given in his early work a serious call to a devout and holy life , for an extreme. The works, vol. 1, from ‘practical treatise upon christian perfection’ ch. 2 conversion it is only the weary and heavy laden, that are fitted to be converts, or refreshed;. William law's quote beautifully captures the essence of true love.
