William Law Resource Page

God, the only Good of all intelligent Natures, is not an absent or distant God,
but is more present in and to our Souls, than our own Bodies.
And we are Strangers to Heaven, and without God in the World,
for this only Reason, because we are void of that Spirit of Prayer,
which alone can, and never fails to unite us with the One, only Good,
and to open Heaven and the Kingdom of God within us.

Primary Sources:
A Sermon Preached at Hazelingfield (July 7, 1713)
1. Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor
2. Remarks upon a Late Book entitled, "The Fable of the Bees"
The Case of Reason or Natural Religion Fairly and Fully Stated
The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage-Entertainments Fully Demonstrated
3. A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
4. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
5. A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors of a Late Book called,
A Plain Account of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
The Grounds and Reason of Christian Regeneration
6. An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr Trapp's Discourse
of the folly, Sin and Danger of Being Righteous Over-Much
An Appeal to All that Doubt or Disbelieve the Truths of the Gospel
7. The Spirit of Prayer or The Soul Rising out of the Vanity
of Time into the Riches of Eternity. In Two Parts
The Way to Divine Knowledge: being several Dialogues between
Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus and Theophilus
8. The Spirit of Love. In Two Parts
A Short but Sufficient Confutation of the Rev. Dr Warburton's
Projected Defence of Christianity
9. Of Jusification by Faith and Works
An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy
A Collection of Letters on the Most Interesting and Important Subjects
Letters to a Lady Inclined to Enter into the Communion of the Church of Rome

Secondary Sources:
Christopher Walton: Notes for an Adequate Biography of William Law, London 1854
Howard Brinton: Mystic Will (PhD Thesis on Behmen)
Henry Brooke: The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland 1781 (abridged and ed. by John Wesley)
John Byrom: Seasonly Alarming and Humiliating ...Truths...in a Metrical Version of Passages
taken from W. Law (Francis Okely, ed. 1774)
Stephen Hobhouse: Selected Writings of William Law
Stephen Hobhouse: William Law and 18th Century Quakerism
Stephen Hobhouse: The Book which Introduced Behmen to Law (Jour of Theo Studies, Oct 1936)
Canon Overton: The Life of the Rev. William Law
W. Scott Palmer: Liberal and Mystical Writings of William Law
Henri Talon: William Law: A Study in Literary Craftsmanship
Tighe: Brief Memorial of Mr Law
Alexander Whyte: Characters and Characteristics of William Law