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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
Author
Theologian
Writer
Sir y Fflint
Education
Men
Polite
Liberal
Learning

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Our creature comforts
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A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.
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Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
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Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
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We should take heed of pride it is a sin that turned angels into devils.
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We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.
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As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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None so blind as those who will not see.
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He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
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Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
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None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God and God will not do without us.
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Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
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Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.
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Esther came to a proud imperious man we come to the God of love and grace.
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He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
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Their own second and sober thoughts.
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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.
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Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.
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