Reformation CD#4 - Thomas Manton & Christopher Love
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Thomas Manton's Works (1/2),Christopher Love'sVindication, George Gillespie, James Begg, John Calvin, the Westminster Divines, the Covenanted Church of Scotland (General Assembly), Christopher Love, the famous Synod of Dort (1618-1619), Thomas Manton, Samuel Rutherford, Matthew Henry, C.H. Spurgeon,Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, John Brown (of Wamphray), John Brown (of Haddington),Francis Turretin,James Durham, John Howie, William Hetherington,David Steele, Samuel Miller,John Girardeau, J.A. Wylie,Edward Fisher, Robert Shaw, A.W. Pink, Loraine Boettner, Augustus Toplady, Andrew Symington, Patrick Fairbairn, William Roberts, James Douglas, Richard Baxter, William Cunningham, John Anderson, Andrew Clarkson,David Scott, John Cunningham, George Smeaton, Larry Birger, Francis Rouse,Dr. F. Nigel Lee, Bill Mencarow, the Reformed Presbytery (RPNA), James Douglas, Michael Wagner, the Puritan Reformed Church of Edmonton (Session), Greg Price, Lyndon Dohms (on PRCE session), Greg Barrow, Reg Barrow, et al.

Thomas Manton was "one of the most eminent of the Nonconformist divines." He was born in 1620 and died in 1677. He was chosen to write "The Epistle to the Reader: Especially Heads of Families" of the famous Westminster standards. "Received episcopal institution in 1661. Resigned in 1662, 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 episcopally ordained" and, most evil of all, "a 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.Sermons of the Great Ejection by Iain Murray[Banner of Truth, reprinted 1962]).He was a man of great learning and extensive reading, of a sound judgement, andhad the art of reducing volumes of divinity into a narrow compass.According to Charnock, he was the best collector of sense of the age.Dr. Bates says , 'A clear judgement, rich fancy, strong memory, and happy elocution, met in him, and were excellently improved by diligent study'" (James Darling,Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, 1854, pp. 1953-1954). Manton's better known volumes, such as his commentary on James and Jude and his Sermons on Psalm 119, as well as a host of other practical preaching, teaching and Scriptural exposition, are all found in his Works. The 22nd volume contains two large indices (by subject and text).

Love, a staunch Covenanted Presbyterian, was executed by the English army during Cromwell's usurpation -- or as John Gerstner writes, "he was martyred for the zeal of the Cromwellian Independents." Gerstner continues, "at the end of the 20th century, the Protestant church has fewer Christopher Loves and needs them more. Though he died at 33 years of age, his wisdom is for the ages, especially the impending 'Third Christian Millennium'... Christopher Love made all the actors on the religious scene of his day more or less his enemies because he told the truth across the board. As I said above, we can use a few more Loves for the 21st century... Love was ajure divino(divine right) Presbyterian... With Samuel Rutherford in Scotland, Gisbert Voetius in Holland, and Christopher Love in England, this was the gold age for church order, not for top-down (Episcopacy) or bottom-up (Independency) but top-down and bottom-up (Presbyterianism). That a stickler for regulations would be the devout pietist of the letters here included, is instructive. High Calvinistic theology, meticulous discipline, and heart religion were providentially and sanctifyingly mixed together and out came Christopher Love. He had to die young" (from the Foreword to Don Kistler'sA Spectacle Unto God: The Life and Death of Christopher Love, pp. viii-ix). After Love's execution, the PresbyterianThomas Manton (a close friend of Love's) ignored threats by Cromwell's sectarian soldiers (who said they would shoot him if he preached at Love's funeral) to preach Love's funeral sermon anyway (and he was not shot).

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