The Christian religion is the religion of sinners, of such as have sinned, and in whom sin in some measure still dwells. The Christian life is a life of continued repentance, humiliation for and mortification of sin, of continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin abolished for ever.

While not being a work of textual research for which Henry recommended Matthew Poole's Synopsis Criticorum Henry's Exposition gives the result of a critical account of the original as of his time with practical application.  . After the author's death the work was finiMatthew Henryd (Romans through Revelation) by thirteen other nonconformist ministers partly based upon notes taken by Henry's hearers and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811.

Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister.