The Nature and Design of Christianity
Subtitle: Extracted from a Treatise on Christian Perfection
By: [By William Law, D.D.] ....
Contributors: Law, William, 1686-1761.
Edition: 'The Seventh Edition'.
Publisher: Printed for J. Richardson, in Pater-noster-Row
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Wesley, John, -- 1703-1791.
Notes: Author supplied by H&L, ESTC and evidence in text.

'In [1626] appeared the first of [Law's] practical treatises on 'Christian Perfection', which impressed Bishop Wilson as well as Wesley and the early methodists. It is said that an anonymous stranger presented him with 1,000 l. after reading it' [DNB]

List of 'Books written by William Law, M.A. and Sold by J. Richardson, in Pater-noster-Row' on verso of final leaf.

The author's 'A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection', of which this work is an extract, first published, 1726; John Wesley produced an abridgement of this first chapter of the original 'Treatise', in 1784; this is the version which appears in theB.L. and NUC catalogues. According to the DNB, Law's 'works were collected in nine volumes, with a title-page dated 1762. Each tract was also published separately, and with various dates'.

At foot of title-page: '[Price 2d. or 12s. a Hundred to those that give them away].

ESTC735L40 [var].