Quotes from Matthew Henry

Christ will fold up this world as a garment not to be abused any longer, not to be any longer so used as it has been.

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.

Money is like manure, good for nothing if it is not spread. Evildoers

When God gives law to us, we must give honour to him; when he speaks, we must bow our heads and worship.

Those that would be kept from bad courses must keep from bad company; it is dangerous living in a bad neighbourhood; others' sins will be our snares, if we look not well to ourselves.

God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.

It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.

The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.

Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

All the enemies of Christ shall be made his footstool, either by humble submission and entire subjection to his will casting themselves down at his feet, or by utter destruction;

is a great vexation to the spirits of good ministers to see people deaf to all the fair warnings given them, and running headlong upon ruin, notwithstanding all the kind methods taken to prevent it.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.

Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.

Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The

There is in every wilful sin an interpretative contempt of the goodness of God; it is spurning at his bowels, particularly the goodness of his patience, his forbearance and long-suffering

He is a living man, and yet complains of the punishment of his sin, Lam 3:39. He thinks himself rigorously dealt with when really he is favourably treated; and he cries out of wrong when he has more reason to wonder that he is out of hell.

It is the will of God that his ministers should be well provided for with food convenient; and what is given to them he accepts as offered to himself, if it be done with a single eye.

That which ministers have received of the Lord they must deliver to his people, and keep back nothing that is profitable.

1.) That as there is a world of wicked, malicious spirits that fight against Christ and his church, and all particular believers, so there is a world of holy, blessed spirits engaged and employed for them. In reference to our war with devils, we may take abundance of comfort from our communion with angels.

God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.

The restraints and warnings of the divine law are all intended for our good, and to keep us out of that danger into which we should otherwise, by our own folly, run ourselves.

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.