Both Boston and the minister of Mansoul were well-read men also; so, indeed, in as many words, their fine biographies assure us.

But that is just another way of saying what has been said about those two ministers over and over again already.

William Law never was a parish minister.
The English Crown of that day would not trust him with a parish.

But what was the everlasting loss of some parish in England has become the everlasting gain of the whole Church of Christ.

Law's enforced seclusion from outward ministerial activity only set him the more free to that inward activity which has been such a blessing to so many, and to so many ministers especially.