Cartwrightiana
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Cartwrightiana
（Elizabethan non-conformist texts, v. 1）
Routledge, 2003
Available at 5 libraries
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Reprint. Originally published: London : George Allen & Unwin , 1951
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cartwright's Examination in 1590 and the Oath Ex Officio Mero.
- Chapter 2 Resolution of Doubts About Entering the Ministry.
- Chapter 3 Letters.
- Chapter 4 The Holy Exercise of a True Fast, Described out of Gods Word.
- Chapter 5 A Short Catechism
- Chapter 6 Preface to An Hospitall for the Diseased.
- Chapter 7 Speech at Daughter's Betrothal.
- Chapter 8 Works of Doubtful Authorship
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