In six chapters on Proverbs 3:17, Matthew Henry proves and illustrates the doctrine of religious pleasantness, saying the religious life is the only life worth living. “What was the fall and apostasy of man, and what is still his sin and misery, but the soul’s revolt from the divine life, and giving up itself wholly to the animal life?” Henry writes. Henry’s work is a treasure, helping to demolish Satan’s insinuation that true religion is boring and burdensome. Read Henry’s The Pleasantness of a Religious Life and see why Christians really are the happiest creatures on earth.
Contents
To the Reader
Introduction
Chapter I: The Explication of the Doctrine
Chapter II: The Pleasure of Being Religious, Proved from the Nature of True Religion, and Many Particular Instances of It
Chapter III: The Pleasantness of Religion Proved from the Provision that Is Made for the Comfort of Those Who Are Religious, and the Privilages They Are Entitled To
Chapter IV: The Doctrine Further Proved by Experience
Chapter V: The Doctrine Illustrated by the Similitude Used in the Text, of a Pleasant Way or Journey
