Excerpt from An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Philip Henry: Minister of the Gospel Near Whitchurch, in Shropshire, Who Died June 24, 1696, in the Sixty-Fifth Year of His Age, With Dr. Bates's Dedication
His _father' 3 name was John Henry, the fon of Henry Williams of Britton' s Ferry, betwixt Neath and Swanfey, In Glamorganihire. According to the old Welfh cullom, (fome fay conformable to that of the ancient Hebrews, but now almoft In all places laid afide, ) the father's Chriftian name was the fon's fir name. He had left his native country, and his father's houfe very young, unprovided for by his relations; but it pleafed God to blefs his ingenuity and induitry with a confiderable income afterwards, Wth enabled him to live comfortably himfelf, to bring. Up his child ren well, and to be kind to many of his relations but public events makin a ainft him at his latter end, when he died he left little behind him for his children.
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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.
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