Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I have just come across this rather interesting comment from William Bradshaw in the preface to one of Thomas Cartwright's books:
Many have been sorry (good Reader) to see some writings of this learned and godly Author come forth in public, since his death, with so many defects and maims. To give an instance hereof, there is an exposition of the Epistle to the Colossians, published under his name; wherein he hath had very much wrong done to him: it being nothing else but a bundle of raw and imperfect notes, taken by some unlearned hearer, never perused (or so much as seen) by the Author himself. Wherein there is scant any good coherence of matter to be found, or any perfect periods and sentences handsomely knit together, or suitably depending one upon another.
William Bradshaw, ‘To the Christian reader’ in Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), unpaginated.
Tentmaker recently reprinted Cartwright's Colossians commentary and I am wondering if anyone here knows whether or not it is based on a better edition than the one Bradshaw criticises?
Many have been sorry (good Reader) to see some writings of this learned and godly Author come forth in public, since his death, with so many defects and maims. To give an instance hereof, there is an exposition of the Epistle to the Colossians, published under his name; wherein he hath had very much wrong done to him: it being nothing else but a bundle of raw and imperfect notes, taken by some unlearned hearer, never perused (or so much as seen) by the Author himself. Wherein there is scant any good coherence of matter to be found, or any perfect periods and sentences handsomely knit together, or suitably depending one upon another.
William Bradshaw, ‘To the Christian reader’ in Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), unpaginated.
Tentmaker recently reprinted Cartwright's Colossians commentary and I am wondering if anyone here knows whether or not it is based on a better edition than the one Bradshaw criticises?
