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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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