"INFERIOR TO NO WRITING OF THE KIND"
DAVENANT, JOHN.
Expositio Epistolae D. Pauli ad Colossenses.
Cambridge, Thomas Buck, 1639.
Folio. In contemporary full calf binding. Blind-tooled framed to boarders of board. Small paper-label pasted on to top of board. Light soiling and wear to boards and capitals chipped. Title within a border of printer's ornaments, woodcut initials and tailpieces and text within ruled border. Occssional light marginal miscolouring, but an overall good copy. (8), 415, (14) pp.
Third edition of Davenant's most important and influential theological work. This classic on Colossians, which includes a biography of Davenant and copious notes by Josiah Allport, minister of St. James’s, Birmingham (who also translated it from Latin in 1831), is based on lectures given to students at Cambridge. “James Hervey said of this commentary, “For perspicuity of style and accuracy of method; for judgment in discerning and fidelity in representing the Apostle’s meaning; for strength of argument in refuting errors, and felicity of invention in deducing practical doctrines, tending both to the establishment of faith and the cultivation of holiness, it is inferior to no writing of the kind; and richly deserves to be read, to be studied, to be imitated, by our young divines.” Charles Bridges said, “I know no exposition upon a detached portion of Scripture (with the single exception of Owen on the Hebrews) that will compare with it in all points.” (Beeke, Meet the Puritans). John Davenant (1572-1641) was an English academic and bishop of Salisbury from 1621. Educated at Queens College, Cambridge, he was elected a fellow there in 1597, and served as its President from 1614 to 1621. From 1609 onward, he served as the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, from which he was called away by James I to represent the Church of England at the Synod of Dort in 1618, along with Samuel Ward, Joseph Hall and George Carleton. The first edition was published in Cambridge in 1627, the second in 1630, and the present third in 1639. Provenance: from a large Danish estate.
Davenant's work delves into the initial two chapters of Paul's letter and offers detailed interpretations and practical insights, examining every part of Colossians with exegetical and homiletical commentary. It was presented during his commencement to the post of Theology Professor at Cambridge.
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