Matthew Henry is widely recognized among Bible students as one of the greatest Bible commentators, serving as a valuable resource for Christians for over 300 years. However, fewer are familiar with his father, Phillip Henry, who once penned a letter to his young son Matthew,

“See your need of Christ more and more, and live upon Him. No life like it; so sweet, so safe. My Savior is mine in all things. We cannot be discharged from the guilt of any evil we do, without His merit to satisfy; we cannot move in the performance of any good required, without His Spirit and grace to assist and enable for it; and when we have done all, that all is nothing, without His mediation and intercession to make it acceptable, so that every day in everything He is all in all."

His daughter (Matthew’s sister) wrote of her father Phillip,

“He being 'dead yet speaketh.' And what is it he says, but that which his heart was always full of? Christ. Christ.
Christ. Methinks I hear him still: Oh, make Christ your all!"