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The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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Theologian
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Sir y Fflint
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Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.
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Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him take him for your prophet, and hear him take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.
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A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.
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Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
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Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.
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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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No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.
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Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.
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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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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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Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
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None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.
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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.
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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
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The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.
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They that pray in the family do well they that pray and read the Scriptures do better but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
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