Matthew Henry (1662 – 1714)
English non-conformist clergyman.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
After a storm comes a calm.
The better day, the worse deed.
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
Those that are above business.
None so blind as those that will not see.
Judas had given them the slip.
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
None is so deaf as those that will not hear.
Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.
Saying and doing are two things.
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
To their own second thoughts.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.