Matthew Henry: The Life and Legacy of the Bible Commentator | Official Trailer

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He was an Irenic man. He had a peaceable spirit about him.

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By that time, the strength and power of the Puritan movement was very much on the way.

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Matthew Henry, let's say it this way, lived at the end of the Puritan age and was a stalwart leader among the few

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Puritans that remained. He's a positive Puritan. He expected great things of a great

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God. And he saw those things in his own ministry. Thinking of some of the challenges and the recommendations that we hear today, be an expositor of the

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Word, sequential expository ministry. And others say, well, preach the Word. Matthew Henry's doing both, twice, every

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Lord's Day. His commentary was a staple for evangelical

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Christians in the decades and centuries that followed. The commentary has been in print for 300 years, which hasn't happened with any other commentary that we know of.

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1662 is an important year, especially for non -Anglicans. It was the year the

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Act of Uniformity was passed, causing some 2 ,000 ministers of the Gospel in England and Wales to be removed from the people they served and prevented from exercising their

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God -given callings as Gospel ministers. It's often referred to as the

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Great Ejection. But as every dark cloud has a silver lining, so this grim year for many godly preachers was also the year

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Matthew Henry was born. God would use him not only as a Gospel preacher to his own generation, but for the spiritual benefit of succeeding generations of Christians.

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For Matthew Henry is perhaps best known for his writings, particularly his internationally renowned

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Bible commentary. Join me on a journey through places and through history as we look at the life of the man behind the commentary.