HENRY, Matthew, an eminent dissenting minister and author, was the son of the former, and was born in the year 1662. He continued under his father's care till he was eighteen years of age, by which time he had become well skilled in the learned languages, especially Hebrew, which his father had rendered familiar to him from his childhood; and from first to last the study of the Scriptures formed his principal employment. He completed his education in an academy kept at Islington by Mr Doolittle, and was afterwards entered as a student of law in Gray's Inn, where he became well acquainted with the civil and municipal law of his own country; and from his application and great abilities it was thought he would have become very eminent in that profession. But at length, resolving to devote his life to the study of divinity, he, in 1685, retired into the country, and was chosen pastor of a congregation at Chester, where he lived about twenty-five years, greatly esteemed and beloved by his people. He had several calls from London, which he constantly declined; but he was at last prevailed on to accept an unanimous invitation from a congregation at Hackney. He wrote, 1. Expositions of the Bible, in five vols. folio; 2. The Life of Mr Philip Henry; 3. Directions for daily Communion with God; 4. A method for Prayer; 5. Four Discourses against Vice and Immorality; 6. The Communicant's Companion; 7. Family Hymns; 8. A Scriptural Catechism; and, 9. A Discourse concerning the Nature of Schism. He died of apoplexy, at Nantwich, in 1714, and was interred at Trinity Church, in Chester.