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13721 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.19 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts are comforts indeed to us when we see them flowing from the blessing of God, we are sure not to want any thing that is good for us in this world …
13722 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.21 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts, so that the spirit he has made shall not fail before him.
13723 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts attending it as make it rather a gift (as the apostle reckons it, Philippians 1:29 ) than a loss or grievance. But there are very few instances of good …
13724 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.24 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable settlement in this world, and in a better when we leave this. That we shall dwell for evermore ( Psalms 37:27 ), and not be cut off as the seed of the wicked …
13725 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 516.30 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable to him than the beginning was; the storms blow over, and he is comforted again, after the time that he was afflicted. However, if all his days …
13726 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 517.4 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts the wound he has made with his terrors. This will be the everlasting misery of the damned—the arrows of God’s wrath will stick fast in them and …
13727 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 517.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , he comforts himself with the cognizance God graciously took both of his griefs and of his prayers ( Psalms 38:9 ): “ Lord, all my desire is before thee. Thou knowest …
13728 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 517.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . I comforted myself with that when I was apprehensive that they would overwhelm me.” It is a great support to us, when men are false and unkind, that we have a God …
13729 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.1 (Matthew Henry)
… whose comforts God has, by death, made breaches, will find this psalm of great use to them, in order to their obtaining what we ought much to aim at under such an …
13730 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts lie at a continual uncertainty; and if there were not another life after this, all things considered, he were made in vain. He is vanity; he is mortal …
13731 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to be found …
13732 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.14 (Matthew Henry)
… upon comfort in any relation; for it is all as uncertain as our continuance here. “Though I have sometimes foolishly promised myself this and the other from …
13733 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . Whatever comforts he is deprived of, whatever crosses he is burdened with, he will be easy. “ Because thou didst it; it did not come to pass by chance, but according …
13734 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.20 (Matthew Henry)
… speak comfort to them and make them to hear joy and gladness. [2.] It had set him a praying; and afflictions are sent to stir up prayer. If they have that effect, and …
13735 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 519.5 (Matthew Henry)
III. His comfortable experience of God’s goodness to him in his distress, which he records for the honour of God and his own and others’ encouragement.
13736 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 519.24 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort themselves in him, Psalms 40:17. David himself was one of these: I am poor and needy (a king, perhaps now on the throne, and yet, being troubled in spirit …
13737 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 520.1 (Matthew Henry)
… here comforts himself in his communion with God under his sickness, by faith receiving and laying hold of God’s promises to him ( Psalms 41:1-41:3 ) and lifting …
13738 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 520.3 (Matthew Henry)
I. God’s promises of succour and comfort to those that consider the poor; and,
13739 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 520.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort him in his sickness.
13740 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 520.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood.” We complain, and justly, of …