An excellent 19th century edition of a classic Puritan exposition. C.H. Spurgeon, in Commenting and Commentaries, describes Davenant on Colossians as in the first rank of commentaries on this Pauline epistle and approvingly quotes the opinion of Charles Bridges: ‘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 parts . . . in depth, accuracy, and discursiveness.’ 

John Davenant (c. 1576-1641), was a graduate of Cambridge. At the age of thirty-three he was awarded his D.D. and was made Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity in the University. A member of the Church of England delegation to the Synod of Dort, King James I later appointed him Bishop of Salisbury in 1621, a position he was to retain until his death in 1641.

John Davenant. An Exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians, by the Right Rev. John Davenant, D. D. Lord Bishop of Salisbury; President of Queen's College, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge: Originally Delivered, in a Series of Lectures, Before the University. Translated from the Original Latin; with a Life of the Author, and Notes Illustrative of the Writers and Authorities Referred to in the Work: By Josiah Allport, Minister of St. James's, Birmingham. To the Whole is Added, a Translation of Dissertatio De Morte Christi, by the Same Prelate. Vol. I-II. London. Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1831. 548pp. + 600pp.

A very good copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.