Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“If we are prudent and diligent in our affairs, we may trust Providence to furnish us with the bread of the day in its day.”
“Note, The best way of manifesting our affection to our friends is by praying and giving thanks for them.”
“When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.”
“Good instructions from parents and ministers will but aggravate our condemnation if we do not live up to them.”
“We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law.”
“The saving of churches and kingdoms from ruin is owing to the satisfaction and mediation of Christ.”
“We cannot be built up in Christ, unless we be first rooted in him.”
“See the reasons of free grace; we are not beloved for our own sakes, but for his sake who is the great trustee of the covenant.”
“The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than of soldiers that they die on the bed of honour. Abel’s death has not only no curse in it, but it has a crown in it;”
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“It is better to have one fountain that a thousand cisterns, one all-sufficient God than a thousand insufficient ones.”
“it. Philosophy may instruct men to be calm under their troubles; but Christianity teaches them to be joyful, because such exercises proceed from love and not fury in God.”
“Those that cast off the duties of religion in their prosperity cannot expect the comforts of it when they come to be in distress. Justly”
“The times of the gospel are the last times, the gospel revelation is the last we are to expect from God.”
“In a day of prosperity we are in great danger of forgetting God, our dependence upon him, our need of him, and our obligations to him. When”
“is no breach of the law of meekness to show our displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked.”
“III. He exhorts to holy joy and delight in God: Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice, v. 4. All our joy must terminate in God; and our thoughts of God must be delightful thoughts. Delight thyself in the Lord (Ps. 37:4), in the multitude of our thoughts within us (grievous and afflicting thoughts) his comforts delight our souls (Ps. 94:19), and our meditation of him is sweet, Ps. 104:34. Observe, It is our duty and privilege to rejoice in God, and to rejoice in him always; at all times, in all conditions; even when we suffer for him, or are afflicted by him.”
“The greatest sign of God's displeasure against any person or people is his taking his law from them.”
“It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration,”
“Eaten bread must not be forgotten. God's miracles and mercies are to be had in everlasting remembrance, for our encouragement to trust in him at all times.”
“The relics of idolatry ought to be abolished as affronts to the holy God and a great reproach to human nature.”
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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.