A 5.745' CALL TO CHRISTIANS: SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE. BY WILLAM LAW, A. M. REVISED AND ABRIDGED BY HOWARD MALCOM, D.D. WITH A NEW MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, Philadelphia: AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY. 118 ARCH STREET. Entered acccruing to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by the AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The stereotype plates and copyright of this book were presented to the American Baptist Publication Society by Matthew Vassar, Esq., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Rev. Howard Malcom, D. D., of Philadelphia. ! EDITOR'S PREFACE. The reader is assured that no sentiments are ex punged from this edition of the "Serious Call" but such as are repugnant to the views of the great bulk of Christians, or are redundant. In no case has any senti ment of the Editor been foisted into the book. It was not deemed proper to make great alterations in the diction, though in many respects this has necessarily been done to meet the present standard of taste. In the original work, though the author was an Episcopal minister, some of the prominent errors not only of Jacob Behmen, and Madame Guion, but of the Romish Church, constantly occur, beside many peculiarities which have never been adopted by any body of Christians, or perhaps by any other individual. The intrinsic excellence of a large part of the book has, however, notwithstanding these blemishes, kept it always in demand; eighteen editions having already been printed in this country, beside a still larger number in England. It seemed therefore to the Editor, and to many of his friends, highly important that an expurgated edition should be prepared. This has now been done, with all the care and pains of which the Editor is capable. It must be remembered by the reader, that this book is addressed to professed Christians. Hence it formed no part of the author's plan to exhibit the satisfaction of Christ, or the mode of conversion. These topics he |