Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“Whom God helps he helps right early, Ps. xlvi.”
“Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.”
“Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. He despised the sacrifice of torn and broken beasts, but he will not despise that of a torn and broken heart. He will not overlook it; he will not refuse or reject it; though it make God no satisfaction for the wrong done him by sin, yet he does not despise it.”
“but the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all sin, and after it there needs no cleansing.”
“That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected , and near his heart to be beloved.”
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“As those who live and die unsanctified go out of the world with their hell about them, so those who are sanctified and renewed go out of the world with their heaven about them.”
“Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.”
“God will own his own people, though ever so poor and despicable, and will find a time to plead their cause.”
“is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.”
“ (2.) A severe penalty: The Lord will not hold him guiltless; magistrates, who punish other offences, may not think themselves concerned to take notice of this, because it does not immediately offer injury either to private property or the public peace; but God, who is jealous for his honour, will not thus connive at it.”
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“All that are to be employed for God are to be sanctified to him.”
“Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.”
“Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.”
“Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?”
“Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.”
“The calamities of the righteous are preparing them for their future blessedness, and the wicked, while their days are prolonged, are but ripening for ruin. There is a judgment to come, which will rectify this seeming irregularity, to the glory of God and the full satisfaction of all his people, and we must wait with patience till then.”
“Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.”
“Jesus Christ is our great peace-offering; for he made himself a sacrifice, not only to atone for sin, and so to save us from the curse, but to purchase a blessing for us, and all good.”
“drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.”
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“is.32.8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.†”
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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.