Comments by Matthew Henry
A song of degrees of David.
Author: Matthew Henry
EXPERIMENTAL RELIGION The graciousness of our Redeemer is best discovered by an experimental taste of it. There must be an immediate application of the object to the organ of taste; we cannot taste at a distance, as we may see, and hear, and smell. To taste the graciousness of Christ experimentally supposes our being united …
MATTHEW HENRY ON CHRISTIAN UNITY There is no greater enemy to Christian love than pride and passion. If we do things in contradiction to our brethren, this is doing them through strife; if we do them through ostentation of ourselves, this is doing them through vain glory: both are destructive of Christian love and kindle …
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love . . . distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Romans 12.10-16.
A WARNING TO THE UNCONVERTED It is no time to dally and trifle, and speak softly when precious souls lie at stake, and their eternal condition is so nearly concerned. Cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. knowing the terrors of the Lord, we persuade men. The blood of your souls …
EXTRACTS FROM MATTHEW HENRY ON JAMES 4. 11-12. “There is one Lawgiver”. God is still to be acknowledged as the supreme lawgiver, who only can give law to the conscience, and who alone is to be absolutely obeyed. His right to enact laws is incontestable, because He has such a power to enforce them. Since …
Prayers of faith are filed in heaven and not forgotten; though the blessing prayed for is not speedily given. Prayers made by persons when young, and coming into the world, are often answered to them when old and going out of it. Zachariah’s prayer was answered, for a son, after he had long ceased to …