The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 1
Overview
Volume 1 begins with a biographical memoir of Thomas Manton by William Harris, which traces the formative events of Manton’s childhood and education. The remainder of Volume 1 contains a 253-page line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer, seven sermons on the temptation of Christ, seven sermons on the transfiguration of Christ, and seven sermons on Christ’s eternality.
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- Includes a biographical memoir of Thomas Manton
- Traces the formative events of Manton’s childhood and education
- Offers a line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer.
- Some Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Manton, DD (William Harris, DD)
- A Practical Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer
- Preface
- Introduction
- An Exposition
- Christ’s Temptation and Transfiguration: Practically Explained and Improved in Several Sermons
- To the Reader
- The Temptation of Christ
- The Transfiguration of Christ
- Christ’s Eternal Existence and the Dignity of His Person: Asserted and Proved, in Opposition to the Doctrine of the Socinians
- To the Christian Reader
- Redemption by Christ
Top Highlights
“It is one thing to do good works, only that they may be seen; it is another thing to do good works, that they may not only be seen, but also be imitated, to win others by them to give glory to God. It is one thing to do good works for the glory of God, another thing to do them for the glory of ourselves.” (Page 5)
“They mock God that pray they might do his will, yet have no care to do it, that declaim against their lusts, yet hug them and keep them warm in their bosoms. We oftener pray from our memories than our consciences, and oftener from our consciences than our affections. From our memory, as we repeat words by rote, without sense, or feeling, or consideration of the importance of them. From our consciences, rather than affections. Austin observes of himself: while he was under the power of his lusts he would pray against concupiscence, but his heart would say, At noli modo, timebam enim ne me exaudiret Deus; ‘But, Lord, not yet; for I am afraid lest God should hear me.’” (Pages 126–127)
“Thus many times the children of God, after solemn assurances of his love, are exposed to great temptations.” (Page 260)
“Without pardon all the good things of this life will do us no good.” (Page 167)
“That temptations come not by chance, not out of the earth, nor merely from the devil; but God ordereth them for his own glory and our good. Satan was fain to beg leave to tempt Job: Job 1:12, ‘And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon himself put not forth thine hand;’ there is a concession with a limitation. Till God exposeth us to trials, the devil cannot trouble us, nor touch us.” (Page 259)
How hard and successful a student he was, and how frequent and laborious a preacher, and how highly and deservedly esteemed; all this, and more, is commonly known.
Ministers who do not know Manton need not wonder if they are themselves unknown.
The fertility of his mind seems to have been truly astonishing. Every page in his books contains many ideas . . . I regard Manton as a divine of singularly well-balanced, well-proportioned, and scriptural views. . . . As an expositor of Scripture, I regard Manton with unmingled admiration.
Perhaps few men of the age in which he lived had more virtues and fewer failings.
—William Harris
- Title: The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 1
- Author: Thomas Manton
- Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
- Publication Date: 1870
- Pages: 536
Thomas Manton (1620–1677) was an English Puritan clergyman. He was born in 1620 in Somerset, England. He attended Oxford University, and graduated in 1639. At age 19, he was ordained as a deacon, and became the town lecturer of Collumpton in Devon. He began preaching at St. Mary’s Church in 1644, and became lecturer at Westminster Abbey in 1656. He also participated in the Westminster Assembly and preached before Parliament. In 1662, Manton was forced to leave the Church of England for nonconformity. He was imprisoned—as were many Puritans—in 1670 for preaching illegally. He also crafted the Fundamentals of Religion with Richard Baxter during this time. Throughout his lifetime, Thomas Manton was a devoted follower and ardent defender of Reformed theology. He died in 1677.