William Law’s importance as a master of the spiritual life was acknowledged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by persons as diverse as John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, Samuel Johnson, the renowned lexicographer, and John Henry Newman, the leader of the Oxford Movement, subsequently Cardinal, although such admirers did not follow Law’s teachings blindly and without criticism. An Anglican who remained loyal to the dethroned Stuarts, and thus a non-Juror, Law represented the heart