Henry, Matthew

a celebrated non-conformist divine, was born in Flints hire, Wales, in 1662; he was one of the two you sand ministers who seceded from the Church of England upon the pa age of the Act of Uniformity. He began preaching in 1686, and the following year established himself at Chester, Eng., as pastor of a congregation of Di enters, continuing this connection for a quarter of a century. He removed to Hackney, near London, in 1712, and died two years later while on a visit to his old friends in Chester. Iu 1704 he began the preparation of an ambitious work, entitled An Erposition of the Old and New Testaments, but only lived to complete the Acts of the Apostles. This work has been frequently reprinted.