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In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained. He resided at Cambridge, teaching and taking occasional duty until the accession of George I, when his conscience forbade him to take the oaths of allegiance to the new government and of abjuration of the Stuarts. His Jacobitism had already been betrayed in a tripos speech which brought him into trouble; and he was now deprived of his fellowship and became a non-juror.
For the next few years he is said to have been a curate in London. By 1727 he was domiciled with Edward Gibbon (1666-1736) at Putney as tutor to his son Edward, father of the historian, who says that Law became the much honored friend and spiritual director of the whole family. In the same year he accompanied his pupil to Cambridge, and resided with him as governor, in term time, for the next four years. His pupil then went abroad, but Law was left at Putney, where he remained in Gibbon's house for more than ten years, acting as a religious guide not only to the family but to a number of earnest-minded folk who came to consult him. The most eminent of these were the two brothers John and Charles Wesley, John Byrom the poet, George Cheyne the physician and Archibald Hutcheson, MP for HastingsThis is about Hastings in England. There are other uses of the name Hastings Hastings is a town in southeastern England, in the county of East Sussex. Population (2000) about 84,000. Now known as a seaside resort and education centre (Hastings College and.
The household was dispersed in 1737Events 12 February The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force the first city-paid force. In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lo. Law was parted from his friends, and in 1740 retired to Kings Cliffe, where he had inherited from his father a house and a small property. There he was presently joined by two ladies: Mrs Hutcheson, the rich widow of his old friend, who recommended her on his death-bed to place herself under Law's spiritual guidance, and Miss Hester Gibbon, sister to his late pupil. This curious trio lived for twenty-one years a life wholly given to devotion, study and charity, until the death of Law on the 9th of April 1761.
Law was a busy writer under three heads:
In this field he had no contemporary peer save perhaps Richard BentleyRichard Bentley ( January 27, 1662 July 14, 1742) was an English scholar and critic. Bentley was born at Oulton near Wakefield, Yorkshire. His grandfather had suffered for the Royalist cause following the English Civil War, leaving the family in reduced c. The first of his controversial works was Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor (1717), which were considered by friend and foe alike as one of the most powerful contributions to the Bangorian controversyBangorian Controversy The Bangorian controversy was a theological dispute in the early 18th century which originated in 1716 with the posthumous publication of George Hickes's ( bishop of Thetford) Constitution of the Christian Church, and the Nature and on the high church side. Thomas SherlockThomas Sherlock ( 1678 July, 1761), English divine, the son of William Sherlock, was born at London. He was educated at Eton and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 1704 succeeded his father as master of the Temple, where he was very popular. declared that Mr Law was a writer so considerable that he knew but one good reason why his lordship did not answer him. Law's next controversial work was Remarks on MandevilleBernard de Mandeville ( 1670- January 19 or 21, 1733?), was a philosopher and satirist. He was born at Dordrecht in the Netherlands, where his father practised as a physician. On leaving the Erasmus school at Rotterdam he showed his ability by an Oratio s's Fable of the Bees (1723), in which he vindicates morality on the highest grounds; for pure style, caustic wit and lucid argument this work is remarkable; it was enthusiastically praised by John SterlingJohn Sterling ( July 20, 1806 September 18, 1844), was a British author. He was born at Kames Castle on the isle of Bute. He belonged to a family of Scottish origin which had settled in Ireland during the Cromwellian period. His father was Edward Sterling, and republished by FD Maurice. Law's Case of Reason (1732), in answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation is to a great extent an anticipation of Bishop Butler's famous argument in the Analogy. In this work Law shows himself at least the equal of the ablest champion of Deism. His Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Church of Rome are excellent specimens of the attitude of a high Anglican towards Romanism. His controversial writings have not received due recognition, partly because they were opposed to the drift of his times, partly because of his success in other fields.