MATTHEW HENRY: THE BIBLE, PRAYER, AND PIETY A conference to mark the tercentenary of Matthew Henry’s death

The , Hollybank, 14th-16th July 2014 Co-hosted with The and Chester Cathedral Library

Draft programme MONDAY 14th JULY 1330 REGISTRATION (Coffee available) 1430 WELCOME 1445 – 1600 OPENING LECTURE Prof. Jeremy Gregory (Manchester University) The Church and nonconformity in Later Stuart England: the wider world of Matthew Henry 1600 – 1630 COFFEE 1630 – 1745 PLENARY LECTURE Dr David Wykes (Queen Mary) Matthew Henry: Minister and Preacher 1800 DINNER Whites Dining Room 1915 THE MATTHEW HENRY TRAIL Leaves from Hollybank

TUESDAY 15th JULY 0800 BREAKFAST (for residential delegates) 0900 – 1105 SHORT PAPERS 0900-0930 Dr Alan Clifford (John Calvin Academy) The Gospel According to Matthew Henry 0930-1000 Keith Giles (Irish Baptist /University of Chester) Serious Sacraments: Matthew Henry and the Lord’s Supper. A Brief Analysis of a Puritan Perspective on Communion [5 minute break] 1005-1035 Michael Smith (Manchester University) “The Expressing of Devout Affections of the Heart”: Piety and the Affections in the Worlds of Matthew Henry 1035-1105 Peter Bamford (Chester Cathedral Library) For the Church or the Stable? A Chester Consistory Court Case of 1693-4 1105 – 1130 COFFEE 1130 – 1300 SHORT PAPERS 1130-1200 Prof. George Brooke (Manchester University) Soul Prosperity: Reading Psalm 1 with Matthew Henry

1200-1230 Dr Matthew Collins (University of Chester) Professors of Religion and their Strange Wives: Diluvian Discord in the Eyes of Matthew Henry 1230-1300 Prof. Loveday Alexander (University of Chester) Verbi Dei Minister: Matthew Henry on Matthew 24.45-51 1300 LUNCH Whites Dining Room 1400 CATHEDRAL VISIT Leave from Hollybank 1415 – 1530 Library Exhibition (Prof. Philip Alexander, Manchester University) 1530 – 1615 BREAK (with Cathedral Tour) 1615 – 1730 PLENARY LECTURE (Cathedral Library) Dr Christine Helmer (NorthWestern University) Religious Experience and Prayer: Matthew Henry on the Practice of Religion 1800 DINNER White’s Dining Room 1930 CHESTER THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC LECTURE Prof. Clyde Binfield From Educated Underworld to the Queen’s First Knight: The Henrys in Context

WEDNESDAY 16th JULY 0800 BREAKFAST (for residential delegates) 0900 – 1100 SHORT PAPERS 0900-0930 Dr Stuart Weeks () Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 0930-1000 Viv Randles (University of Gloucestershire) Interpretation by Imagination: Balaam and his Donkey in Preaching and Polemic, 1616–1789 1000-1030 Dr Paul Middleton (University of Chester) ‘Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron’: Matthew Henry’s Treatment of the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple 1030-1100 Dr Andrew Crome (Manchester University) Commentaries on Revelation in the 17th and 18th Centuries 1100 – 1130 COFFEE 1130 – 1245 CLOSING LECTURE Dr Ligon Duncan (Reformed Theological Seminary) Matthew Henry’s Legacy in Piety and Prayer 1300 LUNCH Whites Dining Room CONFERENCE ENDS

Rates: £160 Residential; £95 non-residential Information and booking: http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/21521 Individual Day rates available on request from [email protected]