Thomas Manton was born in in Somerset, England. He attended Oxford University, and graduated in At age 19, he was ordained as a deacon, and became the town lecturer of Collumpton in Devon. He began preaching at St. He also participated in the Westminster Assembly and preached before Parliament. In , Manton was forced to leave the Church of England for nonconformity.
He was imprisoned—as were many Puritans—in 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 Faithlife Your digital faith community.
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The Complete Works of Thomas Manton (22 vols.)
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Received Episcopal institution in Resigned in , on account of the Act of Uniformity which among other wicked, Satanic enactments, its principal terms required a declaration of unfeigned assent and consent to everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, re-ordination for those not Episcopal ordained — and, most evil of all, — renunciation of the Solemn League and Covenant. Knowing that the Puritans would not submit to such terms, the Authorities framed the Act to secure their expulsion —cf.
He was a man of great learning and extensive reading, of a sound judgment, and had the art of reducing volumes of divinity into a narrow compass. According to Charnock, he was the best collector of sense of the age. Bates says , — clear judgment, rich fancy, strong memory, and happy elocution, met in him, and were excellently improved by diligent study — James Darling, Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, , pp. Includes Manton's better known volumes, such as his commentary on James and Jude and his Sermons on Psalm , as well as a host of other practical preaching, teaching and Scriptural exposition.
The 22nd volume contains two large indices by subject and text. A Practical Exposition of the Lord's Prayer. Christ's Redemption and Eternal Existence. Sermons on Various Texts, including: Two sermons preached before the House of Commons. Four Sermons preached at the Cripplegate Morning Exercises. Manton's Preface to Smectymnuus Redivivius.
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Sermons on Romans 6. Sermons on Romans 8. All ministers were to be ordained or re-ordained by a bishop, they were to renounce the Solemn League and Covenant, promise loyalty to the Prayer Book, and subscribe the Thirty-Nine Articles. Since Manton was on favorable terms with Charles II he was offered the Deanery of Rochester, but he refused on conscience grounds. He also continued to write even when imprisoned for refusing to cooperate for six months in in violation of the Conventicle Act.
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The Declaration of Indulgence was passed in , granting men like Manton a license to preach at home. Manton would later die on October 18, , and was survived by his wife and three children. The Complete Works of Thomas Manton: A memoir by Rev. An Estimate of Manton by J. Twenty Sermons on Important Passages of Scripture. The last sermon he preached after the Great Ejection in The Blessed Estate of them that Die in the Lord. Meat out of the Eater. Preached to the House of Commons June 30,