Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.”
“Whatever is unclean should be to us an abomination; touch not the unclean thing.”
“Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.”
“True penitents say to their idols, "Get you hence; what have we to do any more with idols?”
“That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.”
“An earnest exhortation to stand fast in the liberty of the gospel. (1-12)”
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“All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices (1 Pet. 2:5),”
“It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do it, who are so peculiarly bound to trust him.”
“The tremendous judgments of God, executed on those that are daringly profane and atheistical, are intended as warnings to those who profess religion to take heed of every thing that has the least appearance of, or tendency towards, profaneness or atheism. Even”
“Wicked Israelites are as abominable to God as wicked Canaanites, and more so, and will be as soon spued out, or sooner. Such”
“By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.”
“As soon as ever God by his Spirit convinces our consciences of any sin or duty we must immediately set in with the conviction, and prosecute it, as those that are not ashamed to own our former mistake.”
“The gospel dispensation is not properly a dispensation of fear, sorrow, and dread, but of peace and joy. Terror and astonishment may well attend mount Sinai, but exultation and joy mount Zion, where appears the eternal Word, the eternal life, manifested in our flesh.”
“Strong faith is often exercised with strong trials and put upon hard services.”
“Those, and those only, shall find God to their comfort, who seek him with all their heart, that is, who are entirely devoted to him, earnestly desirous of his favour and solicitous to obtain it.”
“Nor is any service pleasing to God till the guilt of sin be removed by our interest in the great propitiation.”
“Grace in the soul is a new life in the soul.”
“all these statutes and judgments of the divine law are infinitely just and righteous, above the statutes and judgments of any of the nations. The”
“It is the grace of God only that will secure us, and that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor”
“though he offered himself once for all, yet that one offering thus becomes a continual offering.”
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.