The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . ST. MARY ISLINGTON, LONDON. Henrys Commentary, Doctor Cell onthe Pentateuch, and Bengelius on theNew Testament. Matthew Henry, whose prolix butvaluable Commentary is still a stand-ard work, was born in Wales shortlyafter the Restoration. He belonged to 330 The Illustrated History of WILBERFORCES SCHOOL FOR THE B
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . ST. MARY ISLINGTON, LONDON. Henrys Commentary, Doctor Cell onthe Pentateuch, and Bengelius on theNew Testament. Matthew Henry, whose prolix butvaluable Commentary is still a stand-ard work, was born in Wales shortlyafter the Restoration. He belonged to 330 The Illustrated History of WILBERFORCES SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, YORK, ENGLAND. a Nonconform-ist family ofsome wealthand standing, and, after studying law,entered tile ministry. His theology wasa mild Calvinism, acceptable to mostEvangelicals; and it breathed the spiritof his own personality. The verychurchmen, it was said, love his death in the last year of QueenAnnes reign, when Charles was a boyof five, he had the Commentary completedown to the Acts of the Apostles. Theremaining books of the New Testamentwere afterward edited by thirteen Non-conformist divines. Modern editionsusually print Henrys notes along withthose of Scott, an English Church vicarof much more pronouncedly Calvinisticviews. Charles Wesleys indebtedness to Mat-thew Henry for the sequence of thoughtin many of his hymns may be illustratedfrom the well-known: A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify,A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky. In Henrys Commentary there will befound among the notes to Leviticus, , the follow
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