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14521 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.12 (Matthew Henry)
… solid comfort and content to the soul, nor enable it to say, “Now I have what I would have.” Nay, they do not satisfy even the appetites of the body. The more men have …
14522 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of God’s good Spirit, are a continual feast to those that hearken diligently and obediently to Christ. Their souls shall delight themselves …
14523 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 735.26 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort, as ever the rain had upon the earth, to make it fruitful. [2.] That according to the different errands on which the word is sent it will have its different …
14524 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.1 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort and instruction in righteousness.
14525 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.11 (Matthew Henry)
… following comforts who in some measure answer to these characters. (1.) They keep God’s sabbaths as he has appointed them to be kept. In the primitive times, if …
14526 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.12 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably in themselves, and a name to live creditably with among their neighbours; they shall be happy, and may be easy both at home and abroad. Though …
14527 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.16 (Matthew Henry)
… . [3.] Comfort. They shall not only be accepted, but they themselves shall have the pleasure of it: I will make them joyful in my house of prayer. They shall have grace …
14528 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.18 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort the prophet here, by a very sudden change of his style, passes to words of reproof and conviction, and goes on in that strain, for the most part, in the …
14529 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.1 (Matthew Henry)
… men, comforting those that were taken away in their integrity and reproving those that did not make a due improvement of such providences, Isaiah 57:1, 57:2 …
14530 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.12 (Matthew Henry)
… takes comfort in his people, while they are faithful to him; but what comfort can he take in them when those that should be his witnesses against the idolatries …
14531 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.17 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable because their hopes are crowned with fruition, when those that seek to other helpers have their hopes frustrated: “ He that puts his trust …
14532 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts. Thirdly, When troubles last long, the spirit even of good men is apt to fail. They are tempted to entertain hard thoughts of God, to think it in vain …
14533 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.24 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfortable word, show us no token for good, if he tear and go away ( Hosea 5:14 ), we are very miserable.
14534 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.27 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortable, and to them God had an eye in working it out. Blessed are those that mourn, for to them comfort belongs, and they shall have it.
14535 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.30 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts. They are always like the sea in a storm, for they carry about with them, [1.] Unmortified corruptions. They are not cured and conquered, and their ungoverned …
14536 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter he added, When he shall come he shall convince ( John 16:7, 16:8 ); for conviction must prepare for comfort, and must also separate between the precious …
14537 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts, and like a spring of water, like a garden that has a spring of water in it, whose waters fail not either in droughts or in frosts.” The principle of …
14538 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it; the work will be its own wages. If we call the sabbath a delight, then shall we delight ourselves in the Lord; he will more and more manifest himself …
14539 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the Redeemer’s coming, that shall then lift up their heads, knowing that their redemption draws nigh. He shall come to those that turn from the …
14540 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the Comforter shall abide with the church for ever, John 14:16. 2. The word of Christ shall always continue in the mouths of the faithful; there shall be some in …