Manton: measured by your mouth

Puritan pastor Thomas Manton makes a point…
The ox bellows, the ass brayeth, goats and sheep may be known by their bleat; and so is a man by the tenor of his discourse. As the constitution of the mind is, so are the words. …. Still the tap runs according to the liquor [...]

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Manton: Knowledge & effect

” We are apt to abuse our knowledge. Saving [spiritual] knowledge makes us more humble; but carnal [sinful] knowledge more proud. … The more we know God or ourselves by a divine light, the more humble we shall be. … When Adam’s eyes were opened he ran into the bushes, he was ashamed; [...]

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Manton: choose eternal things over temporal…

“It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the word of God, and the way He prescribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things,” says puritan Thomas Manton while preaching on Psalm 119:12.
In an extended “Tuesday with Thomas Manton” let me share all three points [...]

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Manton: Get God’s help with God’s Word

Friend, you need God’s help to profit from God’s Word. Puritan Thomas Manton makes this point today in the excerpt below….
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“If we would profit by the word of God, we must go to God, and desire the light and strength of His grace. If we would enjoy the blessed God, according to [...]

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Manton on “desiring God” (long before John Piper)

Careful reading of the following quotation will yield much reward. Here, puritan Thomas Manton reminds us that God is content and happy in Himself, and the one who comes to know God (and love what He loves) will share in this great happiness. Manton, and all the puritans really, were “Christian hedonists” long [...]

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Manton: Get & keep the Word in your Heart

If you are to store up God’s word in you heart (Psalm 119:11), what must you be careful to do? Puritan Thomas Manton speaks plainly about two vital steps to take:

Oh, therefore, let us get it into our hearts; let it not only move the lighter part of the soul, bet get rooting, that [...]

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Manton: A ready Word really helps

Commenting further on Psalm 119:11 — I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you — puritan Thomas Manton lists practical helps to the believer who has memorize Scripture:

HIDE GOD’S WORD IN YOUR HEART
1. It will prevent vain thoughts.
2. A source of comfort, when you [...]

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Manton: Got God’s Word in your heart?

Psalm 119 has the perfect verse to direct us to memorize Scripture:
119:11, I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Thomas Manton tells us several good reasons to do this, including that we may have it ready for our use:
When it is hid in the [...]

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Tuesdays with Thomas Manton

Psalm 119:11 says, I have stored up [KJV 'hid'] your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Manton points out: A thing may be hidden two ways, either to conceal it, or else to cherish and keep it. And it is kept in the heart, not the brain, [...]

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Tuesdays with Thomas Manton…

LET ME NOT WANDER. Psalm 119:10 says,
10 With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
Puritan divine Thomas Manton says,
“God’s children are a generation of seekers. They find hereafter, but now they seek. Their great business is to be seeking after God, more ample and full [...]

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