Quotes from Matthew Henry

Jesus Christ is our great peace-offering; for he made himself a sacrifice, not only to atone for sin, and so to save us from the curse, but to purchase a blessing for us, and all good.

drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.

is.32.8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.†

There were always those among the Israelites that were not Israelites, and there are still hypocrites in the church, who make a deal of mischief, but will be shaken off at last.

The power of men's laws may bind a man to good behavior, but it is only the power of God's grace that will renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10). It is this that

Guilt and corruption are our two great discouragements when we stand before God. By the guilt of the sins committed by us we have become obnoxious to the justice of God; by the power of the sin that dwells in us we have become odious to the holiness of God.

Those that would find mercy with men must seek it of God, who has all hearts in his hands, and turns them as he pleases.

The glorifying of God's name, as it ought to be our first petition (it is so in the Lord's prayer), so it ought to be our great plea

Christians must not forbear speaking the truth, for fear of offending others. The false teachers who drew the Galatians from the truth of the gospel were designing men. They pretended affection, but they were not sincere and upright. An excellent rule is given. It is good to be zealous always in a good thing; not for a time only, or now and then, but always. Happy would it be for the church of Christ, if this zeal was better maintained.

The foundation of Christian practice must be laid in Christian knowledge and faith.

Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of a man's spiritual state than the heart's rising in self-conceit, confidence in the flesh, and resistance of the reproofs of the word and strivings of the Spirit.

None was more quarrelled with by men, than he that came to take up the great quarrel between God and man.

Tears of tenderness and affection are no disparagement at all, even to great and wise men.

We have need to be washed in the blood of Christ from our spots, though they be not leprosy-spots;

Christ must be sought, and will be found, in the congregations of his people and in the administration of his ordinances;

Therefore men are deceived in false gods, that they may depend on the true God only.

He wrote them in two tables of stone, that they might be preserved from corruption, and might be transmitted pure and entire to posterity, for whose use they were intended, as well as for the present generation. These

When Christ by his Spirit draws us we must with our spirits run after him.

What is prayer, but the ascent of the soul to God?

The law only shows us our disease; the gospel shows us our help in Christ.

The covenants God makes he establishes; they are made as firm as the power and truth of God can make them.

All our hopes and joys take their rise from him who is the author of our salvation.

13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.