Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. Do you deny yourself? Our Lord makes self-denial an essential mark of every true disciple, yet it is lit-tle-understood and much-ignored in our self-gratifying age. A Treatise of Self-denial turns our attention again to Christ’s warning: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself” (Mat 16:24). The book is a Puritan classic: it is thorough, biblical, relevant, insightful, timeless, vital, God-honoring, convicting, and immensely important reading for every Christian. It is especially important for pastors, to restore to their preaching this fundamental doctrine. Manton skillfully and convincingly explores our need to deny self-dependence, self-will, self-love, and self-seeking. We pray your life will be transformed by reading and applying this exhortation.
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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