The Days with the Puritans series seeks to make some of the best classic commentaries on Scripture available in bite-size devotional readings that anyone can manage. Five minutes a day will yield some of the choicest fruit of the exegetical masters of the past, whet the appetite for further reading in the Puritans, and, by the Spirit's enabling grace, lift the heart to praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Fifty Days with Thomas Manton in Hebrews culls some of Manton's most insightful comments on each verse and phrase into short, daily readings for the modern devotional reader looking for depth and breadth of commentary. Each selection can be read in about 5 minutes and includes the applicable text of Scripture and brief questions for meditation. These Puritan devotional readings, while retaining the original language and wording of the author, were chosen to engage the modern reader with the light of Scripture as taught by the Puritans.
Thomas Manton was an English Puritan clergyman.
Born at Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, Manton was educated at Blundell's School and then at Hart Hall, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1639. Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich, ordained him deacon the following year: he never took priest's orders, holding that he was properly ordained to the ministerial office. He was then appointed town lecturer of Collumpton in Devon. In the winter of 1644-1645, he was appointed to preach at St Mary's Church in the parish of Stoke Newington in Middlesex, where in 1646 he was joined by Alexander Popham as the parish's ruling elder and began to build a reputation as a forthright and popular defender of Reformed principles.
Although Manton is little known now, in his day he was held in as much esteem as men like John Owen. He was best known for his skilled expository preaching, and was a favourite of John Charles Ryle, who championed his republication in the mid-19th century. His finest work is probably his Exposition of James.
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