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14001 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.65 (Matthew Henry)
… .” The comforts which some of God’s children have in God, and the favours they have received from him, should be matter of joy to others of them. Paul often expressed …
14002 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.67 (Matthew Henry)
… my comfort ( Psalms 119:76 ); that will comfort me when nothing else will; that will comfort me whatever grieves me.” Gracious souls fetch all their comfort from …
14003 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.69 (Matthew Henry)
… find comfort in that. “However they deal with me, I will meditate in thy precepts, and entertain myself with them.”
14004 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.73 (Matthew Henry)
… thou comfort me ? Comfort me with thy salvation, comfort me with thy word .” Observe, 1. The salvation and consolation of God’s people are secured to them by the …
14005 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.75 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him, 1. Because his affliction was great, and therefore he was an object of God’s pity: Lord, make haste to help me, for I have become like a bottle in the …
14006 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.80 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of doing his duty.
14007 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.83 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to him, as it afforded him a good evidence of his integrity. (2.) It was so now in his affliction; it afforded him abundant matter of comfort, and from these …
14008 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.84 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted in them. (2.) “Thou hast made them so;” the word of itself, without the grace of God, would not quicken us. Ministers can but prophesy upon the dry bones …
14009 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.86 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforts himself in the word of God as his protection: “While they are contriving my destruction, I consider thy testimonies, which secure to me my salvation …
14010 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.92 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort or boldness attend on God in holy duties, so as in them to keep his word, while we are under guilt or in any by-way.
14011 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.102 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort only in the way of duty, and that duty must be done, 1. With full consent and complacency: “ I have, by the grace of God, inclined my heart to it, and conquered …
14012 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.104 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself with when his enemies were very malicious against him: Thou art my hiding-place and my shield. David, when Saul pursued him, often betook …
14013 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.115 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort, are wonderful; and it is a sign that we are not acquainted with God’s testimonies, or do not understand them, if we do not admire them. 2. He adhered …
14014 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.121 (Matthew Henry)
… so. Comfort me with the light of thy countenance in every cloudy and dark day. If the world frown upon me, yet do thou smile.” 2. He is very solicitous about his Master’s …
14015 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.122 (Matthew Henry)
… that comfort, and had need of it, for he was one of those that mourned in Zion, and those that do so shall be comforted, Isaiah 61:3. 2. It is godly sorrow. He wept not …
14016 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.128 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted, for the present, in the prospect of it.” This is life eternal, to know God, John 17:3 .
14017 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.129 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort, that he had taken the appointed way to comfort. Observe here, 1. That he was inward with God in prayer; he prayed with his heart, and prayer is acceptable …
14018 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.130 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of it, but that we may have an opportunity of serving God the more cheerfully.
14019 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.131 (Matthew Henry)
David goes on here to relate how he had abounded in the duty of prayer, much to his comfort and advantage: he cried unto God, that is, offered up to him his pious and devout affections with all seriousness. Observe,
14020 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.133 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, when we pray in the night, that we can never come unseasonably to the throne of grace; for we may have access to it at all hours. Baal may be asleep, but …