A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, by William Law / God With Us, a Life of Jesus for Young Readers; By Marianne Radius / The Minor Prophets, by Jack P. Lewis / Calvinism, Its History, Principles and Perspectives, by Simon Kistemaker / “Herman Bavinck en Zijn Tijdgenoten,” Dr. R. H. Bremmer

A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE, by William Law; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1966; 313 pp., $1.95, paper. This paperback is an Eerdmans re-publication of a book first published in 1728. William Law, the author, was born in 1686, a time which puts this book in the era of dead orthodoxy in England. And it is this dead orthodoxy which is challenged by the book. Law writes in protest against the external religious practices of the day and calls the church to live a holy and devout...