“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

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Theologician from Wales 1662–1714

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