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Commentary on the Book of James (The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 4) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In addition to his sermons, Manton is perhaps best known for his detailed commentary on the book of James, which he finds “full of useful and practical matter.” He affirms its divine authority, its canonicity, and its catholicity, paying particular attention to Luther’s objections to James. James, more than any other book, shows the church that “faith is not an idle grace.”

ΠΡΟΛΕΓΌΜΕΝΑ OR A PREFACE WHEREIN, BESIDES AN EXPLICATION OF THE TITLE, SEVERAL NECESSARY PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS ARE HANDLED AND DISCUSSED I INTEND, by the assistance of God’s Holy Spirit, in the weekly returns of this lecture, to handle the Epistle of James. It is full of useful and practical matter. I have the rather chosen this scripture that it may be an allay to those comforts which, in another exercise, I have endeavoured to draw out of the 53d of Isaiah. I would, at the same time, carry on
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