Quotes from Matthew Henry

That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

An earnest exhortation to stand fast in the liberty of the gospel. (1-12)

We may depend upon God's promises, for He will be as good as His Word. He is so kind that He cannot deceive us, so true that He cannot break His promises.

All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices (1 Pet. 2:5)

It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do it, who are so peculiarly bound to trust him.

The tremendous judgments of God, executed on those that are daringly profane and atheistical, are intended as warnings to those who profess religion to take heed of every thing that has the least appearance of, or tendency towards, profaneness or atheism. Even

Wicked Israelites are as abominable to God as wicked Canaanites, and more so, and will be as soon spued out, or sooner. Such

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

As soon as ever God by his Spirit convinces our consciences of any sin or duty we must immediately set in with the conviction, and prosecute it, as those that are not ashamed to own our former mistake.

The gospel dispensation is not properly a dispensation of fear, sorrow, and dread, but of peace and joy. Terror and astonishment may well attend mount Sinai, but exultation and joy mount Zion, where appears the eternal Word, the eternal life, manifested in our flesh.

Grace in this life. Glory in the next life.

Strong faith is often exercised with strong trials and put upon hard services.

Uno absurdo dato, mille sequuntur – Admit but a single absurdity, you invite a thousand. The way of sin is downhill.

Those, and those only, shall find God to their comfort, who seek him with all their heart, that is, who are entirely devoted to him, earnestly desirous of his favour and solicitous to obtain it.

Nor is any service pleasing to God till the guilt of sin be removed by our interest in the great propitiation.

Grace in the soul is a new life in the soul.

It is the grace of God only that will secure us, and that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor

though he offered himself once for all, yet that one offering thus becomes a continual offering.

when God pleads his people's cause he can deal with giants as with grasshoppers. No

It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness

Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse

thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.

Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves