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12441 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 738.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and profit of it, and have reason to say, It is good to draw near to God.
12442 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 739.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter shall abide with the church for ever, John 14:16. The word of Christ will always continue in the mouths of the faithful; and whatever is pretended …
12443 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 740.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of the Spirit, with which gospel ordinances are adorned and enriched. Blessed be his name, the gates of Zion are ever open to returning sinners …
12444 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 741.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a Comforter, and so he is; he is sent to comfort all who mourn, and who seek to him, and not to the world, for comfort. He will do all this for his people, that they may …
12445 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 742.3 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts are. See also God’s mercy in giving plenty, and peace to enjoy it. Let us delight in attending the courts of the Lord, that we may enjoy the consolations …
12446 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 742.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort and peace with him; but a work of humiliation and reformation before him; and they shall be called, The holy people, and, The redeemed of the Lord. Holiness …
12447 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 743.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts and hopes spring from the loving-kindness of the Lord, and all our miseries and fears from our sins. But he is the Saviour, and when sinners seek …
12448 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 744.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and relief of thy people. How few call upon the Lord with their whole hearts, or stir themselves to lay hold upon him! God may delay for a time to answer …
12449 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 745.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall …
12450 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 746.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . Divine comforts reach the inward man; the joy of the Lord will be the strength of the believer. Both God’s mercy and justice shall be manifested, and for ever …
12451 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 749.3 (Matthew Henry)
… small comfort in everlasting punishment, for them to know that others were viler than they.
12452 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 750.5 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts is not a full end. Though the Lord may correct his people very severely, yet he will not cast them off. Ornaments and false colouring would be of …
12453 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 755.3 (Matthew Henry)
… true comfort; and it can turn the heaviest afflictions into precious mercies.
12454 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 757.3 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort under troubles; and his remembrance of them shall be no argument for their relief. Every sin against the Lord is a sin against ourselves, and so it …
12455 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 757.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to the godly. When we are wronged, we have a God to commit our cause to, and it is our duty to commit it to him. We should also look well to our own spirits …
12456 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 760.2 (Matthew Henry)
… -comforts. He has given Israel his word to hope in. It becomes us in prayer to show ourselves more concerned for God’s glory than for our own comfort. And …
12457 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 761.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort that we have a God, to whose knowledge of all things we may appeal. Jeremiah pleads with God for mercy and relief against his enemies, persecutors …
12458 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 763.3 (Matthew Henry)
… or comforts. Those who make God their Hope, shall flourish like a tree always green, whose leaf does not wither. They shall be fixed in peace and satisfaction …
12459 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 763.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort in God, overflowing, ever-flowing fulness, like a fountain. It is always fresh and clear, like spring-water, while the pleasures of sin are puddle-waters …
12460 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 766.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of God’s presence, the Divine protection he was under, and the Divine promise he had to depend upon, that he stirred up himself and others to give …