Samuel Davies Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A9BDD00684C7C9D4
1 Corinthians 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed…
Samuel Davies (1723-1761), Presbyterian minister and educator, was born in New Castle County, Delaware. Davies was raised in the Presbyterian church, educated at Samuel Blair’s Presbyterian academy in Pennsylvania and was expected to become a Presbyterian minister. Thus it was no surprise when in 1746 he was licensed to preach. Moving to Virginia, Davies became known as an advocate of civil liberties for his dissenting, i.e. non-Anglican, religious views. He famously argued that the Toleration Act of 1689 applied to the colonies as well as the British homeland, thus securing the right for dissenters to evangelize and establish their own churches. Davies’s preaching can be described as revivalistic Calvinism for its stress upon the desperate condition of sinners and ability of divine graciousness to rescue sinners from sin. In later years Davies traveled to England and Scotland where he preached and raised funds for the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he would become President in 1758. Davies’s educational efforts extended beyond the College of New Jersey to slaves and Native Americans, and he is largely remembered as an intellectual leader in addition to being a model preacher.
Samuel Davies – An Infallible Test
Women and Their Teaching Role in the Church – Matthew Henry Commentary ( Titus 2:3-5 )
Matthew Henry playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D7D28E0CDFFEA3D6
Women and Their Teaching Role in the Church – Matthew Henry Commentary ( Titus 2:3-5 )
Titus 2:3-5
3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Matthew Henry was a 17th and early 18th Century minister of the Gospel in Chester, England, and died in 1714. Quoting Charles Spurgeon: “First among the mighty for general usefulness we are bound to mention the man whose name is a household word, Matthew Henry. He is most pious and pithy, sound and sensible, suggestive and sober, terse and trustworthy….”
Matthew Henry – (1662-1714), Calvinist biblical exegete
Matthew Henry was born near Wales on October 18, 1662 and was primarily home-educated by his father, Rev. Philip Henry, and also at the Thomas Doolittle academy from 1680-1682. Henry first started studying law in 1686, but instead of pursuing a career in law he began to preach in his neighborhood.
After the declaration of liberty of conscience by James II in 1687, he was privately ordained in London, and on June 2, 1687, he began his regular ministry as non-conformist pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester. He remained in this position for 25 years. After declining several times offers from London congregations, he finally accepted a call to Hackney, London, and began his ministry there May 18, 1712, shortly before his death.
Henry’s reputation rests upon his renowned commentary, An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-10, known also as Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible). He lived to complete it only as far as to the end of the Acts, but after his death other like-minded authors prepared the remainder from Henry’s manuscripts. This work was long celebrated as the best English commentary for devotional purposes and the expanded edition was initially published in 1896. Instead of critical exposition, Henry focuses on practical suggestion, and his commentaries contains rich stores of truths. There is also a smaller devotional commentary on the Bible from Henry known as Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary.
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