Puritanical!

A good friend bought me a one volume Matthew Henry commentary. By the size of it you can barely tell how they fit that many page between two covers. Almost 2,000 pages in all, it's chock full of biblical, Puritan goodness to satisfy my commentary needs for a while.

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And Puritans get a bad rap in popular culture for being legalistic, rigid, and cold moralists. Yet for the majority, it could not be further from the truth! His commentary was spoken well of the likes of George Whitefield. One of the leaders of the Great Awakening, known for his passion particularly in speaking. Matthew Henry's commentary also had influence on William Cowper's hymns.

If you stop and think about what a contemporary passion of that kind would influence, I think then you might get how excited I am to start ripping into this thing! Puritans had such a vivid passion for the pleasure of God! It's intimidating and inspiring at the same time.


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