The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 22
Volume 22 contains 11 sermons from 2 Samuel, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and several New Testament texts. The final part of this volume contains the sermon preached by William Bates at Thomas Manton’s funeral, and contains perhaps the most vivid biographical account of Manton’s life and work. This volume also contains a 200-page subject index for the entire 22-volume collection.
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Key Features
- Includes 11 sermons from 2 Samuel, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and other New Testament texts
- Provides the sermon preached at Thomas Manton’s funeral
- Contains a vivid biographical account of Thomas Manton’s life and work
Contents
- Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture
- Sermon upon Proverbs 6:6–8
- Sermon upon Proverbs 3:18
- Sermon upon Psalm 91:1
- Sermon upon John 19:34–37
- Sermon upon Matthew 19:30
- Sermon upon 1 John 1:7
- Sermon upon Job 10:2
- Sermon upon Acts 7:55, 56
- Sermon upon 2 Samuel 24:24
- Sermon upon 1 John 2:20
- Sermon upon Hebrews 12:24
- A Funeral Sermon Preached upon the Death of the Reverend and Excellent Divine Dr. Thomas Manton
- Funeral Sermon
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Texts
- Index of Principal Texts
Top Highlights
“Fear serveth God with a kind of reserve; it is a force put upon us, and therefore doth no more than needs must. But love is sensible that our obligation is far beyond our ability to recompense, and hath such a delight in God’s service, it can never do enough for him; it counts nothing too good or too much, but all is short and too little.” (Page 83)
“for the new covenant is not set up to make us innocent, but pardonable upon certain terms” (Page 52)
“Neither did he entertain his hearers with impertinent subtleties, empty notions, intricate disputes, dry and barren without productive virtue; but as one that always had before his eyes the great end of the ministry, the glory of God and the salvation of men, his sermons were directed to open their eyes, that they might see their wretched condition as sinners, to hasten their flight from the wrath to come, to make them humbly, thankfully, and entirely receive Christ as their prince and all-sufficient saviour, and to ‘build up the converted in their most holy faith, and more excellent love,’ that is ‘the fulfilling of the law.’ In short, to make true christians eminent in knowledge and universal obedience.” (Page 144)
“But faith is a strange grace; it trusts God wonderfully, and can reconcile all contradictions; it can see Isaac offered, and yet kept still, and a father of many children; gain in loss, and life in death; something in nothing. Well, then, a sound believer will not grudge at trials; when he is put upon the most difficult cases, he saith, ‘Shall I serve God with what costeth me nought?’ No, God shall have the best: if he will have Isaac, let Isaac go.” (Page 83)
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. 22
- Author: Thomas Manton
- Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
- Publication Date: 1875
- Pages: 460
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.