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14261 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.15 (Matthew Henry)
… as comfortable a use of as we can afford, under the limitations of sobriety and wisdom, and not forgetting the poor. [4.] “Make thyself agreeable to thy relations …
14262 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 669.17 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable: The days of thy life are the days of thy vanity; there is nothing here but trouble, and disappointment. Thou wilt have time enough for sorrow …
14263 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 670.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them. Let wisdom direct to gentle methods and forbear violent ones. (1.) Wisdom will teach us to whet the tool we are to make use of, rather than, by …
14264 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 670.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and of the benefit of it. But it is the excellency of the way to the heavenly city that it is a high-way, in which the wayfaring men, though fools, shall …
14265 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 670.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of seeing God give it to us. Magistrates should eat for strength, that their bodies may be fitted to serve their souls in the service of God and their …
14266 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their riches themselves; here he presses it upon them to do good to others with them and to abound in liberality to the poor, which will, another …
14267 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of his Spirit; and the principal is sure, laid up in heaven, for it is lent to the Lord .” Seneca, a heathen, could say, Nihil magis possidere me credam …
14268 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of having done good while we were able; we would then hope to find mercy both with God and man, and therefore should now show mercy. If by charity we …
14269 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.15 (Matthew Henry)
… made comfortable and a man may rejoice in them all. There are those that live many years in this world, escape many dangers, receive many mercies, and therefore …
14270 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.4 (Matthew Henry)
… die comfortably. (2.) Before old age comes, which, if death prevent not, will come, and they will be years of which we shall say, We have no pleasure in them ,—when we shall …
14271 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort us then, and nothing will be more effectual to do that than the testimony of our consciences for us that we begin betimes to remember our Creator …
14272 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.8 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts may delight our souls when the delights of sense are in a manner worn off.
14273 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfortable to the godly, whose souls go to God as a Father, into whose hands they cheerfully commit them, through a Mediator, out of whom sinners may justly …
14274 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.15 (Matthew Henry)
… speak comfortably to them, 2 Chronicles 30:22. Let not the people, the common people, be despised, no, not by the wisest and greatest, as either unworthy or incapable …
14275 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.24 (Matthew Henry)
… whole comfort is bound up in this. It is the concern of every man, and ought to be his chief and continual care; it is the common concern of all men, of their whole …
14276 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable tokens of his favour, who prefer his love before all delights of the children of men, who would rather forego those delights than forfeit …
14277 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort.
14278 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforts of the Spirit, are the adorning of every believing soul, and beautify it; these render it, in the sight of God, of great price. The ornaments of the …
14279 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of his Spirit, are very refreshing to them, and they rest in his love; none of all the delights of sense are comparable to the spiritual pleasure …
14280 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 673.25 (Matthew Henry)
… . To comfort weak believers, who are discouraged by their own blackness; let them be told again and again that they are fair. 4. To engage all who are sanctified …