1691 MATTHEW HENRY. Letter from Puritan, Matthew Henry to His Father on the Birth of their Daughter!

What an attractive little piece of church history. A superb manuscript letter from the famous puritan commentator, Matthew Henry, to his father, one of the saintliest of the puritans himself. It is no wonder he raised such a warm, Christ-loving, devotionally rich son. And here is a letter announcing the gift of godliness to the next generation in the Henry family! "Chester, April 12, 1691. Honor'd Sir, Having had the help of your prayers this comes to beg the help of your praises; about 8 o clock ye evening my dear wife, through God's goodness, was safely deliver'd of a daughter. Her pains began yester-morning, but she continued in them and went about all yesterday, they not being violent. They disturbed her much last night, but this morning she fell to it in good earnest and hath had a bad day; for four hours before she was deliver'd she was in very great extremity, insomuch that ye life either of mother or baby was despair'd of. But God hath deliver'd us from our fears, and she is no