Great, therefore, as was its moral and spiritual power among large classes of the people, Methodism was never able to take rank among great national reformations.Law willingly acknowledged the justice of many of their arguments, but maintained that the opinions mla footnote website they impugned were simply a mistaken view of true Christianity.When he writes more coolly and reflectively we are reminded not of the first fanatical originators of that sect, but of what their distinguished apologist, Barclay, has said of those 'pangs of the new birth' which have often accompanied the sudden awakening to spiritual life in persons of strong and undisciplined feelings.His works would demand more attention at this point, were they not to a great degree an echo in rhyme of William Law's prose works.Yet these are blemishes which lie mla footnote website comparatively on the surface.About his path and about his bed, around his ears and under his eyes, an infinite play of spiritual life seethed and swarmed or shone and sang.William Law's writings will not be rightly estimated unless it be remembered that in his time orthodox theology in England scarcely allowed of any other than those scholastic and forensic notions of the mla footnote website Atonement which he deprecates.He learnt to combine with earnest piety and strong convictions an unreserved sympathy, as far as possible removed from the sectarianism of religious parties, with all that is good and Christlike wherever it might be found, wherever the Light that lighteth every man shines from its inward temple.' 'Our guilt is transferred upon Him in no other sense than mla footnote website as He took upon Him the state and condition of our fallen nature.' Some years afterwards he retracted this expression, as being far too strong.
