The Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote a book called Experiencing God’s Presence. In it (p.11), he says: “Although Psalm 5:3 may be taken as a promise that God will hear our prayers...
Our fathers had much to say about stillness, and by stillness they meant the absence of motion or the absence of noise or both...
The pernicious tendency of these traditions is very strikingly illustrated, in one of our Lord’s discourses...
That God should shew mercy to sinners, hath the greatest condescension in it, but much more to come down and proclaim it: ‘Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!’
Today, the English Baptist pastor Robert Robinson (1735-1790) is best known as the author of the hymn, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing...
