Quotes from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household

Matthew Henry ·  90 pages

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“Those who are unconcerned in the affairs of their brethren, and take no care, when they have opportunity, to prevent their hurt in their bodies, goods, or good name, especially in their souls, do, in effect, speak Cain's language. See Lev 19:17; Phi 2:4.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“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.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household



“Hell is destruction from the presence of the Lord, Th2 1:9. It is a perpetual banishment from the fountain of all good. This is the choice of sinners; and so shall their doom be, to their eternal confusion.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“Note, Those that depart from God cannot find rest any where else. After Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, he never rested. Those that shut themselves out of heaven abandon themselves to a perpetual trembling. "Return therefore to thy rest, O my soul, to thy rest in God; else thou art for ever restless.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


“When parents are grieved by their children's wickedness they should take occasion thence to lament that corruption of nature which was derived from them, and which is the root of bitterness. But here we have that which was a relief to our first parents in their affliction.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from A Church in the House: Restoring Daily Worship to the Christian Household


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Matthew Henry
Born place: in The United Kingdom
Born date October 18, 1662
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