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HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY, See also:MATTHEW (1662-1714) , See also:English See also:nonconformist divine, was See also:born at Broad See also:Oak, a See also:farm-See also:house on the confines of Flintshire and See also:Shropshire, on the 18th of See also:October 1662. He was the son of See also:Philip Henry, who had, two months earlier, been ejected by the See also:Act of Uniformity. Unlike most of his See also:fellow-sufferers, Philip Henry possessed some private means, and was thus enabled to give a See also:good See also:education to his son, who went first to a school at See also:Islington, and then to See also:Gray's See also:Inn. He soon relinquished his legal studies for See also:theology, and in 1687 became See also:minister of a Presbyterian See also:congregation at See also:Chester, removing in 1712 to See also:Mare See also:Street, See also:Hackney. Two years later (22nd of See also:June 1714), he died suddenly of See also:apoplexy at See also:Nantwich while on a See also:journey from Chester to See also:London. Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708–1710) is a commentary of a See also:practical and devotional rather than of a See also:critical See also:kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New. Here it was broken off by the author's See also:death, but the See also:work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by G. See also:Burder and See also:John See also:Hughes in 1811. Of no value as See also:criticism, its unfailing good sense, its discriminating thought, its high moral See also:tone, its See also:simple piety and its singular felicity of practical application, combine with the well-sustained flow of its racy English See also:style to secure for it the foremost See also:place among See also:works of its class. His See also:Miscellaneous Writings, including a See also:Life of Mr Philip Henry, The Communicant's See also:Companion, Directions for Daily Communion with See also:God, A Method for See also:Prayer, A Scriptural See also:Catechism, and numerous sermons, were edited in 1809 and in 1830. See See also:biographies by W. Tong (1816), C.

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Chapman (1859), J. B. See also:Williams (1828, new ed. 1865); and M. H. See also:Lee's Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry (1883).

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