Cartwrightiana
Author | : T Cartwright |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134363056 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134363052 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Thomas Cartwright was the leader of the Elizabethan Puritans and his intellectual pre-eminence was widely acknowledged. Standard-bearer of the Prebytero-Puritans against Whitgift, he was held to have vanquished his powerful adversary by the publication of his Rest of the Second Replie (1557) Cartwrightiana is the first of 2 volumes giving authoritative editions of the works of the early Elizabethan Puritans - Cartwright, Browne and Harrison. It contains among others: accounts of Cartwright's examination before the Commissioners in 1590, Resolution of Doubts about entering the Ministry, several of his letters, A Short Catechism (1579), The Holy Exercise of a True Fast (1580) and a Preface to an Hospital for the Diseased 1959