Inspirational Quotes by Matthew Henry
“The graces and comforts of the Spirit are communicated to the soul by the enlightening of the understanding.”
“It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice,”
“Those who have their eyes opened, and have some understanding in the things of God, have need to be more and more enlightened, and to have their knowledge more clear, and distinct, and experimental.”
“An apostle is a prime-minister in the kingdom of Christ, immediately called by Christ, and extraordinarily qualified; his work was peculiarly to plant the Christian church, and confirm the Christian doctrine.”
“Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there.”
“Christ has a table in his kingdom, at which all his saints shall for every eat and drink with him, Luke 22:30.”
“The most quieting considerations under affliction are those that are fetched from the word of God.”
“Those whom God employs to speak for him ought to depend upon him for instructions, and it shall be given them what they shall speak,”
“He that speaks evil of his brother is said to speak evil of the law, and consequently of the Law-maker,”
“In all God's providences it is good to observe the fulfilling of scripture, and to compare God's word and his works together, which if we do we shall find an admirable harmony and agreement between them, and that they mutually explain and illustrate each other.”
“If God be not sanctified and glorified by us, he will be sanctified and glorified upon us.”
“When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction,”
“The more we fix our hopes on the recompence of reward in the other world, the more free and liberal shall we be of our earthly treasure upon all occasions of doing good.”
“As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.”
“Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.”
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“The wisdom of God is to be observed in the gradual advances of the church's interests.”
“No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.”
“The providence of God is to be acknowledged in the comfortable meeting of relations and friends.”
“Pure hands must be lifted up without wrath, and all our gospel feasts kept with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
“Where God sets up the tabernacle of his ordinances he will himself dwell.”
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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.