Thomas Manton

Usually they are dearer to us that have suffered anything for our sakes, than they that have otherwise done us good. And therefore Christ, to set off his love, spent a miserable thirty-two years and upwards in the world,…

Here is a sealing of your comfort, it was merited by Christ: you can do nothing to merit it, but Christ did. What is free grace to you is due debt to Christ. Alas! what can you do to find so much grace with God as to pre…

We speak to God in prayer, God answereth us in the word; God speaks to us in the word, and we return and echo back again to him in prayer. In the word God comes down to us, and in prayer we get up to God; therefore, if y…

In vain he is called a preacher that never preacheth, so he is in vain called a Christian that never prayeth. As things of an airy nature move upward, so the saints are carried up to God by a kind of naturality, when the…

Such is God's condescension to the saints, that he hath not only provided an advocate to present our petitions in court, but a notary to draw them up; not only appointed Christ for help against our guilt and unworthiness…

Christ was fain to come down, and to take a mother upon earth, that we might have a Father in heaven.

Adoption is an act of free grace, by which we that were aliens and strangers, servants to sin and Satan, are, in and by Christ, made sons and daughters of God, and accordingly are so reckoned and treated with, to all int…

The flesh is for sparing and favouring the body; but faith is for saving the soul.