Top 15 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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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

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

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

After a storm comes a calm.

Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.

Judas had given them the slip.

Saying and doing are two things.

Those that are above business.

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