The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 3
Volume 3 contains 18 sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2, in which Manton encourages his listeners to stand firm and prepare—in hope—for the day of the Lord. The second half of Volume 3 contains “A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah,” in which he peels back the theological, pastoral, and practical implications of the life and death of the suffering servant.
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Key Features
- Contains 18 sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2
- Includes Manton’s “A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah,”
- Examines Christ as the suffering servant
Contents
- Eighteen Sermons on the Second Chapter of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
- A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah
Top Highlights
“It is so full and clear, that it rather needs meditation than a comment, faith more than learning, to conceive of it” (Page 191)
“called the gospel than the prophecy of Isaiah. It contains so ample and clear a discovery of Jesus Christ” (Page 191)
“God did not create us merely that he might create us, but that he might communicate himself to us, and manifest more of his glory, and that we might see more of his wisdom, and goodness, and power.” (Page 411)
“Sin is not so sweet as the sinner imagines. Christ suffered bitter things when he bore it in his body upon the tree” (Page 278)
“godliness, and none ever disbelieved it but those the interest of whose lusts engaged them to question” (Page 6)
Praise for the Print Edition
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
Product Details
- Title: The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 3
- Author: Thomas Manton
- Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
- Publication Date: 1871
- Pages: 494
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.