A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton…

Yet in very different proportions, that he might have some to feed his Lambs, as well as others to feed his Sheep. The Generality of good Preachers have made it their business to preach Christ, and the exceeding Riches of his Grace, and to study matter rather than words, upon Mr. Perkins his old Principle, Verba sequentur res. But all have not had alike fertile Invention, or solid Judgment, or alike Skill and Learning in Languages and Arts, &c. Some particular Persons have been blessed with them all, by which they have made Stars of the first Magnitude in the Church of God. Such, Reader, we take the Reverend Author of these Sermons to have been; in all whose Writings thou shalt find a quick and fertile Invention, ⟨image 4⟩governed with a grave and solid Judgment, and the Issue of both expressed in a grave and decent Style, so as it is not easy to say, what one would desire in a Divine, that was wanting in him. He had an Heart full of Love and Zeal for God and his Glory, and out of the abundance of his Heart, his Mouth continually spake. So frequent, yet so learned and solid Preaching by the same person, was little less than miraculous. But he was a Scribe fully instructed in the things of the Kingdom of God, and like a good Householder, was continually fetching out of the Store-house of his knowing and judicious Soul, things both old and new. He was no studier of Words and Phrases, he abhorred such a Pedantry, and debasing the Authority of Gospel Propositions; but a grave and serious Soul, fitted with his skill in Arts, and Languages, neither ever did, nor could want Expressions, above the scorn of the most wanton Word-dressers, thó beneath the expectations of such as can be pleased with the timeableness of Paranomasiaes, or the rollings of six-footed words. He was a good, and learned, a grave and judicious person, and his Auditory never failed (though he laboured more than the most Preachers, his constant course of Preaching being for many years Five times, and till near his End, three times a Week) to hear from him a pious, learned and most judicious Discourse. This, those who never heard him may easily believe, by his printed Commentaries and Sermons, in which we never met with any that complained for want of any thing fit for a Divine.

Yet in very different proportions, that he might have some to feed his Lambs, as well as others to feed his Sheep. The Generality of good Preachers have made it their business to preach Christ, and the exceeding Riches of his Grace, and to study matter rather than words, upon Mr. Perkins his old Principle, Verba sequentur res. But all have not had alike ferile Invention, or solid Judgment, or alike Skill and Learning in Languages and Arts, &c. Some particular Persons have been blessed with them all, by which they have made Stars of the first Magnitude in the Church of God. Such, Reader, we take the Reverend Author of these Sermons to have been; in all whose Writings thou shalt find a quick and fertile Invention,