EARNEST AND AFFECTIONATE

ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY,

BY

WILLIAM LAW, A. M.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER

TOR LIBRAI

NEW-Y

PUBLISHED BY

JOHN TOWNSEND, WEST PHILADELPHIA.

Wm. S. Young, Printer, Rear of 50 N. Sixth St.

SOME ACCOUNT

or

WILLIAM LAW,

AUTHOR OF THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS, AND DIVERS OTHER RELIGIOUS TRACTS.

He was born at King's Cliff, a market town in Northamptonshire, Great Britain, in the year 1687. His parents were of good repute, and in circumstances which enabled them to give him a liberal education. He was sent early to the University of Cambridge, and was of Emanuel College, where his superior genius soon distinguished itself by three Letters to (Hoadly) the Bishop of Bangor so greatly, that upon their publication the celebrated Bishop Atterbury waited upon him and made him this compliment:" Mr. Law, from your writings, instead of seeing a youth, I should have expected to see gray hairs." The universal applause those three Letters met with, instead of filling his mind with pride and vanity, the too pregnant attendants of superior abilities and human applause, only served to make him the more retired