A review of the writers in the
controversy
with the Bishop of
Bangor.
Bangor.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
.
.
.
1717.
A Second Letter to the Bishop of Bangor. . . . 1717.
A Reply to the Bishop of Bangor's Answer to the Representation of the
Committee of Convocation. . . . 1719.
Remarks upon A Late Book, Entituled, The Fable of the Bees. . . . 1724.
The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage-Entertainment Fully Demonstrated
. . . 1726.
A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection. . . . 1726.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. Adapted to the State and
Condition of All Orders of Christians. . . . 1729.
The Case of Reason, or Natural Religion, Fairly and Fully Stated. In
Answer to a Book, Entituld Christianity as old as the Creation. . . .
1731.
A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors Of a late Book, called
A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, &c. . . . 1737.
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, or, the New-Birth. . . .
1739.
An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr Trapp's Discourse of the Folly, Sin,
and Danger, of being Righteous over-much. . . . 1740.
An Appeal to all that Doubt, or Disbelieve The Truths of the Gospel. . . . To
which are added, Some Animadversions upon Dr Trapp's Late Reply. . .
1740.
The Spirit of Prayer; or, The Soul rising out of the Vanity of Time, into the
Riches of Eternity. In Two Parts. Part 1. 1749. Part II. 1750.
The Way to Divine Knowledge. . . . 1752.
The Spirit of Love. Part the First. 1752. The Second Part. 1754.
A Short but Sufficient Confutation of . . . Warburton's Projected Defence
(As he calls it) of Christianity, in his Divine Legation of Moses. . . . 1757,
of Justification by Faith and Works. A Dialogue between A Methodist and
A Churchman. . . . 1760.
A Collection of Letters. . . . 1760. (In which is included (pp. 141-62) a tract
called Christian Piety, freed from The many Delusions of Modern
Enthusiasts. . . . By Philalethes, 2nd edn, 1756. ]
An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy. . . . 1761.
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Letters to a Lady inclined to enter into the Communion of the Church of
Rome. . . . 1779.
[These were written in 1731-2, to Miss Dodwell, daughter of Henry
Dodwell, the nonjuror, but were not published until 1779. They are
therefore not in the collected edition of the Works, 1762. See Morgan's
edition, 1892-3. )
[Three more letters written by Law [to Langcake? ] in 1749, 1750, and
1753, were printed in]
A Serious and Affectionate Address to All Orders of Men. . . . Bath:. . . 1781.
:
C. Modern Reprints of Single Works (Selected List)
Remarks on the Fable of the Bees, with an Introduction by Maurice, F. D.
Cambridge, 1844.
A Serious Call. Ed. Overton, J. H. 1898. Ed. Bigg, C. 1899.
Liberal and Mystical Writings of William Law. Edd. Scott Palmer, W.
and Du Bose, W. P. 1908.
D. Unpublished MSS
The Walton Collection in Dr Williams's Library, Gordon Square, W. C.
(This is a unique and valuable collection, made by Christopher Walton
(1809-77), an ardent admirer of Law and Boehme. It consists (a) of
MSS, (b) of printed books. The MSS are principally: unpublished
MSS and letters of Law (see 1146. 1. 1. 75; 11. 10, 11. 11); letters written
to Law by various people; Freher's writings and drawings, of which there
are duplicates in the B. M. (see under Freher, below); copies of Freher's
works in Law's handwriting; Dr Francis Lee's MSS (see under Lee,
below); a mass of Walton's own MSS, preparatory to his projected
work on Law, Boehme, Freher, Lee and other mystics. The printed
books are a valuable collection of mystical writings, of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries principally. )
E. Controversial Works answered by Law or connected
with his Writings
(1) Bangorian Controversy.
Hickes, George. The Constitution of the Catholick Church, and the Nature
and Consequences of Schism. . . . 1716.
Hoadly, Benjamin (bp of Bangor and of Winchester). A Preservative against
the Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors. . . . 1716.
The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church, of Christ. . . . 1717.
An Answer to the Representation drawn up by the Committee of the
Lower-House of Convocation. . . . 1718.
- A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper. . . . 1735.
The Works of Benjamin Hoadly, D. D. 3 vols. . . . 1773.
Philanagnostes Criticus. An Account of the Pamphlets in the Bangorian
Controversy (1719). Hoadly's Works, vol. 11, pp. 381-401.
Prat, D.
A review of the writers in the controversy with the Bishop of
Bangor. . . . 1717.
For further literature on this subject, see B. M. catalogue, under
Hoadly, also under Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Pyle, John Jackson and
A. Snape; and cf. Figgis, J. Neville, Hoadly and the Bangorian Contro-
versy, The Guardian, 11 Oct. 1905, p. 1679.
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512
Bibliography
•
•
(2) Attack on the Stage.
Dennis, John. The Stage Defended, . . . Occasion'd by Mr Law's late
Pamphlet against Stage-Entertainments. . . . 1726.
Law Outlaw'd: Or, A Short Reply to Mr Law's Long Declamation against
the Stage. . . . 1726.
(3) Reply to Mandeville,
Mandeville, Bernard de. The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick
Benefits. . . . 1714.
[The poem was first printed in 1705, in a 6d. pamphlet, under the title
The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves turn'd Honest. ]
(4) The Deist Controversy.
(Tindal, Matthew. ) Christianity as old as the Creation. Vol. 1. 1730. (The
second volume was destroyed in MS by bp Gibson, to whom it had been
bequeathed. ]
(5) Answer to Dr Trapp. Ó'
Trapp, Joseph. The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous
over-much; with a particular view to the Doctrines and Practices of
certain Modern Enthusiasts. 3rd edn. . . . 1739.
(6) Warburton.
Warburton, William (bp of Gloucester). The Divine Legation of Moses. . . .
2 vols. 1738-41.
The Works of William Warburton. 7 vols. . . . 1788. [For Warburton's
remarks about Law, see specially The Doctrine of Grace, Works, vol. IV,
pp. 565, 624, 626, 699-707. ]
Payne, John. A Letter occasioned by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester's
Doctrine of Grace. . . . 1763.
Hartley, Thomas. A Short Defence of the Mystical Writers; against some
Reflections in a late Work, intitled The Doctrine of Grace; (appended
to] Paradise Restored. . . . 1764.
Horne, George (bp of Norwich). Cautions to the Readers of Mr Law.
(c. 1750? ) (Printed in Appendix to] Memoirs of George Horne, . . . by
William Jones. . . . 1795, pp. 198–204.
A Letter to a Lady on the Subject of Jacob Behmen's Writings. April
8, 1758. [In Appendix, ibid. pp. 205-21, see, also, ibid. pp. 73-4. )
:
F. Biographical and Critical Works
A Letter to Mr Law; Occasion'd by reading his Treatise on Christian
Perfection: By a Lover of Mankind. . . . 1728.
A Short Account of the two charitable Foundations at Kings-Cliffe, Stamford.
1755.
Article on Law in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. xx, 1815.
Four Letters on Law and his works (by W. Hamilton Reid, Z. Cozens,
"Quranius' and 'Theophilus') in The Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1800,
pp. 1038-41.
(Langcake, Thomas. ] A Serious and Affectionate Address to all orders of
Men. . . in which are earnestly recommended the Works of . . . William
Law. . Bath . . . 1781.
[Moreton, G. ] Memorials of the Birthplace and Residence of . . . Law at
King's Cliffe, . . . Guildford, 1895.
Overton, J. H. The Nonjurors, their lives, principles and writings. 1902.
William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. 1881.
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Tighe, Richard. A Short account of the Life and Writings of . . . Law. . . . 1813.
[Walton, Christopher. ] Notes and Materials for an adequate Biography
of . . . Law. . . . 1854.
[A mine of information in all that relates to Law and Boehme, as well
as to many other mystics,
principally of the eighteenth century. The part
more directly relating to Law will be found imbedded in a footnote, which
runs from p. 334 to p. 628. ]
IN
II. FOLLOWERS OF LAW
A. John Byrom
An Epistle to a gentleman of the Temple. . . . 1749.
Enthusiasm; a Poetical Essay. 1751.
Miscellaneous Poems. 2 vols. Manchester. 1773. Rptd at Leeds, 1814.
Francis Okely collected and printed those of Byrom's poems which
are paraphrased from Law, under the title:
Seasonably Alarming and Humiliating . . . Truths . . . in a Metrical Version
of certain select passages taken from the works of . . . William Law. . . .
1774.
The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Ed. Parkinson,
R. 4 vols. Chetham Society. 1854–7.
The Poems of John Byrom.
A Second Letter to the Bishop of Bangor. . . . 1717.
A Reply to the Bishop of Bangor's Answer to the Representation of the
Committee of Convocation. . . . 1719.
Remarks upon A Late Book, Entituled, The Fable of the Bees. . . . 1724.
The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage-Entertainment Fully Demonstrated
. . . 1726.
A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection. . . . 1726.
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. Adapted to the State and
Condition of All Orders of Christians. . . . 1729.
The Case of Reason, or Natural Religion, Fairly and Fully Stated. In
Answer to a Book, Entituld Christianity as old as the Creation. . . .
1731.
A Demonstration of the Gross and Fundamental Errors Of a late Book, called
A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, &c. . . . 1737.
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration, or, the New-Birth. . . .
1739.
An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr Trapp's Discourse of the Folly, Sin,
and Danger, of being Righteous over-much. . . . 1740.
An Appeal to all that Doubt, or Disbelieve The Truths of the Gospel. . . . To
which are added, Some Animadversions upon Dr Trapp's Late Reply. . .
1740.
The Spirit of Prayer; or, The Soul rising out of the Vanity of Time, into the
Riches of Eternity. In Two Parts. Part 1. 1749. Part II. 1750.
The Way to Divine Knowledge. . . . 1752.
The Spirit of Love. Part the First. 1752. The Second Part. 1754.
A Short but Sufficient Confutation of . . . Warburton's Projected Defence
(As he calls it) of Christianity, in his Divine Legation of Moses. . . . 1757,
of Justification by Faith and Works. A Dialogue between A Methodist and
A Churchman. . . . 1760.
A Collection of Letters. . . . 1760. (In which is included (pp. 141-62) a tract
called Christian Piety, freed from The many Delusions of Modern
Enthusiasts. . . . By Philalethes, 2nd edn, 1756. ]
An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy. . . . 1761.
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511
Letters to a Lady inclined to enter into the Communion of the Church of
Rome. . . . 1779.
[These were written in 1731-2, to Miss Dodwell, daughter of Henry
Dodwell, the nonjuror, but were not published until 1779. They are
therefore not in the collected edition of the Works, 1762. See Morgan's
edition, 1892-3. )
[Three more letters written by Law [to Langcake? ] in 1749, 1750, and
1753, were printed in]
A Serious and Affectionate Address to All Orders of Men. . . . Bath:. . . 1781.
:
C. Modern Reprints of Single Works (Selected List)
Remarks on the Fable of the Bees, with an Introduction by Maurice, F. D.
Cambridge, 1844.
A Serious Call. Ed. Overton, J. H. 1898. Ed. Bigg, C. 1899.
Liberal and Mystical Writings of William Law. Edd. Scott Palmer, W.
and Du Bose, W. P. 1908.
D. Unpublished MSS
The Walton Collection in Dr Williams's Library, Gordon Square, W. C.
(This is a unique and valuable collection, made by Christopher Walton
(1809-77), an ardent admirer of Law and Boehme. It consists (a) of
MSS, (b) of printed books. The MSS are principally: unpublished
MSS and letters of Law (see 1146. 1. 1. 75; 11. 10, 11. 11); letters written
to Law by various people; Freher's writings and drawings, of which there
are duplicates in the B. M. (see under Freher, below); copies of Freher's
works in Law's handwriting; Dr Francis Lee's MSS (see under Lee,
below); a mass of Walton's own MSS, preparatory to his projected
work on Law, Boehme, Freher, Lee and other mystics. The printed
books are a valuable collection of mystical writings, of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries principally. )
E. Controversial Works answered by Law or connected
with his Writings
(1) Bangorian Controversy.
Hickes, George. The Constitution of the Catholick Church, and the Nature
and Consequences of Schism. . . . 1716.
Hoadly, Benjamin (bp of Bangor and of Winchester). A Preservative against
the Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors. . . . 1716.
The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church, of Christ. . . . 1717.
An Answer to the Representation drawn up by the Committee of the
Lower-House of Convocation. . . . 1718.
- A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper. . . . 1735.
The Works of Benjamin Hoadly, D. D. 3 vols. . . . 1773.
Philanagnostes Criticus. An Account of the Pamphlets in the Bangorian
Controversy (1719). Hoadly's Works, vol. 11, pp. 381-401.
Prat, D.
A review of the writers in the controversy with the Bishop of
Bangor. . . . 1717.
For further literature on this subject, see B. M. catalogue, under
Hoadly, also under Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Pyle, John Jackson and
A. Snape; and cf. Figgis, J. Neville, Hoadly and the Bangorian Contro-
versy, The Guardian, 11 Oct. 1905, p. 1679.
## p. 512 (#536) ############################################
512
Bibliography
•
•
(2) Attack on the Stage.
Dennis, John. The Stage Defended, . . . Occasion'd by Mr Law's late
Pamphlet against Stage-Entertainments. . . . 1726.
Law Outlaw'd: Or, A Short Reply to Mr Law's Long Declamation against
the Stage. . . . 1726.
(3) Reply to Mandeville,
Mandeville, Bernard de. The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick
Benefits. . . . 1714.
[The poem was first printed in 1705, in a 6d. pamphlet, under the title
The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves turn'd Honest. ]
(4) The Deist Controversy.
(Tindal, Matthew. ) Christianity as old as the Creation. Vol. 1. 1730. (The
second volume was destroyed in MS by bp Gibson, to whom it had been
bequeathed. ]
(5) Answer to Dr Trapp. Ó'
Trapp, Joseph. The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous
over-much; with a particular view to the Doctrines and Practices of
certain Modern Enthusiasts. 3rd edn. . . . 1739.
(6) Warburton.
Warburton, William (bp of Gloucester). The Divine Legation of Moses. . . .
2 vols. 1738-41.
The Works of William Warburton. 7 vols. . . . 1788. [For Warburton's
remarks about Law, see specially The Doctrine of Grace, Works, vol. IV,
pp. 565, 624, 626, 699-707. ]
Payne, John. A Letter occasioned by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester's
Doctrine of Grace. . . . 1763.
Hartley, Thomas. A Short Defence of the Mystical Writers; against some
Reflections in a late Work, intitled The Doctrine of Grace; (appended
to] Paradise Restored. . . . 1764.
Horne, George (bp of Norwich). Cautions to the Readers of Mr Law.
(c. 1750? ) (Printed in Appendix to] Memoirs of George Horne, . . . by
William Jones. . . . 1795, pp. 198–204.
A Letter to a Lady on the Subject of Jacob Behmen's Writings. April
8, 1758. [In Appendix, ibid. pp. 205-21, see, also, ibid. pp. 73-4. )
:
F. Biographical and Critical Works
A Letter to Mr Law; Occasion'd by reading his Treatise on Christian
Perfection: By a Lover of Mankind. . . . 1728.
A Short Account of the two charitable Foundations at Kings-Cliffe, Stamford.
1755.
Article on Law in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. xx, 1815.
Four Letters on Law and his works (by W. Hamilton Reid, Z. Cozens,
"Quranius' and 'Theophilus') in The Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1800,
pp. 1038-41.
(Langcake, Thomas. ] A Serious and Affectionate Address to all orders of
Men. . . in which are earnestly recommended the Works of . . . William
Law. . Bath . . . 1781.
[Moreton, G. ] Memorials of the Birthplace and Residence of . . . Law at
King's Cliffe, . . . Guildford, 1895.
Overton, J. H. The Nonjurors, their lives, principles and writings. 1902.
William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. 1881.
•
## p. 513 (#537) ############################################
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513
Tighe, Richard. A Short account of the Life and Writings of . . . Law. . . . 1813.
[Walton, Christopher. ] Notes and Materials for an adequate Biography
of . . . Law. . . . 1854.
[A mine of information in all that relates to Law and Boehme, as well
as to many other mystics,
principally of the eighteenth century. The part
more directly relating to Law will be found imbedded in a footnote, which
runs from p. 334 to p. 628. ]
IN
II. FOLLOWERS OF LAW
A. John Byrom
An Epistle to a gentleman of the Temple. . . . 1749.
Enthusiasm; a Poetical Essay. 1751.
Miscellaneous Poems. 2 vols. Manchester. 1773. Rptd at Leeds, 1814.
Francis Okely collected and printed those of Byrom's poems which
are paraphrased from Law, under the title:
Seasonably Alarming and Humiliating . . . Truths . . . in a Metrical Version
of certain select passages taken from the works of . . . William Law. . . .
1774.
The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Ed. Parkinson,
R. 4 vols. Chetham Society. 1854–7.
The Poems of John Byrom.
