Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry
Matthew Henrywas a Nonconformist minister and author, born in Wales, United Kingdom but spending much of his life in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth18 October 1662
beautiful flower sun
The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
prayer giving people
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
men good-man benefits
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.
hunger inches famine
They that die by famine die by inches.
prayer promise
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
comfort creatures creature-comforts
Our creature comforts
religious men understanding
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.
joy hook mouths
JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
book long way
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
sober
Their own second and sober thoughts.
men littles too-much
We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.
heart feet arms
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head to be his mental superior, and did take him from that which is nearest his heart, that he might love her, and that which is under his arm, that he might protect her.
heaven earth may
Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.
love-is brotherly-love christ
Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.