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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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Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.
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We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
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Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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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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Their own second and sober thoughts.
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The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
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If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.
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The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.
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Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.
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None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
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The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.
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Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
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They that die by famine die by inches.
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. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.
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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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What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.
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The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
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For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love it is the sum of his law and gospel.
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Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.
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