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Divine Thoughts in the Facts of Creation :

I. Our own Planet: Distribution of Light
Distribution of Heat

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Title, Contents, Preface, List of Contributors, and
Classified Index to the Six Volumes.

In Nine Volumes, Imperial Octavo, for Forty-five Shillings,

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HENRY'S COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY BIBLE.

No Exposition has ever been so endeared to the Christian Church, and none so honoured by its Heavenly Head, as that of MATTHEW HENRY. "He is, perhaps, the only commentator so large that deserves to be entirely and attentively read through," was the deliverance of Dr. Doddridge, himself a distinguished expositor; and Dr. Doddridge's strong-minded but paradoxical fellow-townsman, the elder Ryland, declared it "impossible for a person of piety and taste to commence it without wishing to be shut out from all the world to read it through without a moment's interruption;" and amidst all his toils it is said, that the apostolic Whitfield was able to complete its continuous perusal four times. During the last two years of his life Robert Hall read daily two chapters of this Commentary, "feeling, as he proceeded, increasing interest and pleasure; admiring the copiousness, variety, and pious ingenuity of the thoughts; the simplicity, strength, and pregnancy of the expressions." In his "Biblical Library," and as one of the five works which he exclusively consulted in preparing his "Hora Quotidianæ," Dr. Chalmers had always at hand Henry's "Commentary." And what Mr. Bickersteth said of it thirty years ago may still be repeated: "No subsequent commentary has rendered it less valuable, or less desirable in every Christian's library. The private Christian will find it a practical and devotional Exposition of the Word of God, spiritual and experimental, cheerful, edifying, and judicious. The minister will obtain from it constant assistance for his ministry, and to him it will be especially useful in furnishing good hints for expounding the Scriptures." Born and brought up in the peaceful seclusion of Broad Oak, not only did MATTHEW HENRY from his childhood know the Scriptures, but in the abode of his heavenly-minded father the Bible was the book pre-eminent,-expounded in daily worship, the theme of animated and edifying conversation at the family table, and the subject of a frequent and special research in the friendly circle. To the young scholar it was the centre to which al! his earnest thoughts reverted, and the nucleus round which his progressive acquisitions grouped and arranged themselves, whilst in maturer years the business of his profession became his ruling passion, and the elucidation of the Word of God formed the pursuit of his studious days and sometimes of his wakeful nights.

At last, Nov. 12, 1704, and soon after he had completed his forty-second year, he wrote in his diary, "This night, after many thoughts of heart, and many prayers concerning it, I began my Notes on the Old Testament." Never was learned task a labour of intenser love, and, flowing freely from his well-stored memory, his lively fancy, and his deeply devotional spirit, volume steadily succeeded volume, till at the commencement of St. Paul's Epistles death staid the commentator's hand, and on the longest summer day of 1714 his bright and gladsome spirit was translated to the perpetual sunshine of the beatific vision.

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