This year [2014] marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Matthew Henry. He is most well known for his devotional Bible commentary. The first volume appeared in October 1706 while he was minister in Chester. In the preface to that first volume he wrote the following about the Word of God outlining six principles which governed him in all he endeavoured to write by way of exposition:
Though it is most my concern, that I be able to give a good account to God and my own conscience, yet, perhaps, it will be expected that I give the world also some account of this bold undertaking; which I shall endeavour to do with all plainness, and as one who believes, that if men must be reckoned with in the great day, for every vain and idle word they speak, much more for every vain and idle line they write. And it may be of use, in the first place, to lay down those great and sacred principles which I go upon, and am governed by, in this endeavour to explain and improve these portions of holy writ; which endeavour I humbly offer to the service of those (and to those only I expect it will be acceptable) who agree with me in these six principles:
Saturday 30 August 2014
Sunday 10 August 2014
Church History Anniversaries
On Lord's day evenings during August DV a special series of messages will be preached marking Church history anniversaries during 2014
10th August
1950th anniversary of the commencement of Emperor Nero's persecution against 1st century Christians. [AD64]
17th August
300th anniversary of the death of Matthew Henry. [June 1714]
24th August
300th anniversary of the birth of George Whitefield. [December 1714]
31st August
100th anniversary of the ordination of Gresham Machen, the defender of orthodoxy at Princeton Seminary. [June 1914]
