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No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest tha...

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The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God t...

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Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

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

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, b...

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Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

To fish in troubled waters.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Enhanced Version

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the st...

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous...

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, ...

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confus...

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

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

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Prophets often foretold destruction and sometimes the destruction did not come, yet this did not dis...

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We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that i...

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Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second because although they took my purse th...

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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.

After a storm comes a calm.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

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Matthew Henry

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Born: 1662-10-18

Died: 1714-06-22

Matthew Henry (October 18, 1662 – June 22, 1714) was an 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.More