Matthew Henry Quotes

Theologian from Wales; (1662-1714)

Matthew Henry (October 18, 1662 – June 22, 1714) was a Welsh non-conformist clergyman. He became minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester in 1687, removing in 1712 to Mare Street, Hackney. Two years later, he died suddenly of apoplexy at Nantwich while on a journey from Chester to London. 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. Its simple piety and its practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its racy English style, made it one of the best works of its type.

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Alternative Names: Mathew Henry • Reverend Mathew Henry

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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Those that are above business.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

None so blind as those that will not see.

Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. More souls are ruined by pride than by any other sin whatever.