Includes bibliographical references and index.

The church and nonconformity in later Stuart England : the wider world of Matthew Henry / Jeremy Gregory -- Matthew Henry : minister and preacher / David L. Wykes -- From educated underworld to the queen's first knight : the Henrys in context / Clyde Binfield -- 'For the church or the stable' : a Chester consistory court case of 1693-94 / Peter Bamford -- Matthew Henry's commentary in context : reading Ecclesiastes / Stuart Weeks -- Professors of religion and their strange wives : Diluvian discord in the eyes of Matthew Henry / Matthew A. Collins -- 'Filling up the full measure of their sins' : Matthew Henry on the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple / Paul Middleton -- Matthew Henry's exposition of Joshua 7 in socio-legal and sociological perspective / David J. Chalcraft -- Soul-prosperity : reading Psalm 1 with Matthew Henry / George J. Brooke -- The making of ministry : Matthew Henry on the parable of the faithful steward (Matt 24:45-51) / Loveday Alexander -- Prayer and providence : Matthew Henry and the theology of the everyday / Christine Helmer -- 'The expressing of devout affections of the heart' : piety and the affections in the works of Matthew Henry / Michael A.L. Smith -- Matthew Henry's legacy in prayer and piety / Ligon Duncan -- Matthew Henry : an annotated bibliography / Philip Alexander.

Three hundred years after his death, Matthew Henry (1662–1714) remains arguably the best known expositor of the Bible in English, due largely to his massive six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments. However, Henry's famous commentary is by no means the only expression of his engagement with the Scriptures