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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.
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It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).
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Not lost, but gone before.
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
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No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.
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Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
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If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
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None so blind as those who will not see.
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Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
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To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.
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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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No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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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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Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
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The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
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Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!
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No man will say, There is no God 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
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Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
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