MATTHEW HENRY, His Life and Times; A MEMORIAL AND A TRIBUTE. BY CHARLES CHAPMAN, M.A. LONDON: ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1859. 210. i.107 PREFACE. THE contents of the following pages were prepared as a Lecture, to be delivered in the Music Hall, Chester. On the delivery of the former part, an urgent request was made by those who were present that I would consent to publish the whole. This request being afterwards repeated by several gentlemen whose judgment I am accustomed to esteem, and being sustained by their expressed conviction that the public would thereby be interested, and the cause of religion promoted, I have felt it to be my duty to comply. I do not pretend to offer a substitute for the excellent Memoirs that have been published by the late Sir John Bickerton, Williams, and others; nor to discuss in |