Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.”
“Whom God helps he helps right early, Ps. xlvi.”
“Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.”
“We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;”
“The restraints and warnings of the divine law are all intended for our good, and to keep us out of that danger into which we should otherwise, by our own folly, run ourselves.”
“God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.”
“(1.) That as there is a world of wicked, malicious spirits that fight against Christ and his church, and all particular believers, so there is a world of holy, blessed spirits engaged and employed for them. In reference to our war with devils, we may take abundance of comfort from our communion with angels.”
“That which ministers have received of the Lord they must deliver to his people, and keep back nothing that is profitable.”
“It is the will of God that his ministers should be well provided for with food convenient; and what is given to them he accepts as offered to himself, if it be done with a single eye.”
“There is in every wilful sin an interpretative contempt of the goodness of God; it is spurning at his bowels, particularly the goodness of his patience, his forbearance and long-suffering,”
“Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The”
“Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.”
“In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.”
“is a great vexation to the spirits of good ministers to see people deaf to all the fair warnings given them, and running headlong upon ruin, notwithstanding all the kind methods taken to prevent it.”
“All the enemies of Christ shall be made his footstool, either by humble submission and entire subjection to his will casting themselves down at his feet, or by utter destruction;”
“I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee,”
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“Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.”
“The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.”
“It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.”
“God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.”
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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.