Excerpt from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians Made manifest, that any course of life which holds not every thing secondary to the exercises of devotion, is just as irrational as it is unsaintly - that religion and good sense, piety and honour, impiety and de gradation, are not only reconcilable, but in native alliance; and of course, that to speak of rank or taste or genius or learning as incompatible with the strict est piety is to trifle in logic as well as to err in heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.