The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 10
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Volume 10 concludes Manton’s exposition of Matthew 25, with sermons on the contrast Jesus draws between the sheep and the goats. This volume also contains 32 sermons on Jesus’ prayer for himself and Jesus’ prayer for his disciples in John 17.
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Key Features
- Contains Manton’s exposition of Matthew 25
- Provides sermons focusing on the contrast between sheep and goats
- Includes 32 sermons on Jesus’ prayers in John 17
Contents
- Several Sermons upon the Twenty-Fifth of St. Matthew
- Sermons upon the Seventeenth Chapter of St. John
Top Highlights
“This was, as it were, his dying blaze. Natural motion is swifter and stronger in the end; so was Christ’s love hottest and strongest in the close of his life; and here you have the eruption and flame of it. He would now open to us the bottom of his heart, and give us a copy of his continual intercession. This prayer is a standing monument of Christ’s affection to the church; it did not pass away with the external sound, or as soon as Christ ascended into heaven, and sat at the right hand of the Father; it retaineth a perpetual efficacy; the virtue remaineth, though the words be over.” (Page 109)
“When he travailed under the greatness of our sins, his posture is humble; but now, when he is treating with God for our mercies, he useth a gesture that implieth a more elevated and generous confidence. Gestures, being actions suited to the affections, are significant, and imply the dispositions of the heart.” (Page 111)
“In the scriptures there is a draught of God; as coin bears the image of Cæsar, but Cæsar’s son is his lively resemblance. Christ is the living Bible; we may read much of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We shall study no other book when we come to heaven.” (Page 123)
“Strong affections cannot be confined to thoughts: Ps. 39:2, 3, ‘My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned; then spake I with my tongue.’” (Page 115)
“Till we sin, Satan is a parasite; but when once we are in the devil’s hands, he turns tyrant” (Page 345)
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. 10
- Author: Thomas Manton
- Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
- Publication Date: 1872
- Pages: 490
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.