An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the…

He kept his Sermon-Notes in very neat and exact Order; Sermons in Course, according to the Order of the Subject▪ and occasional Sermons according to the Scripture-order of the Texts; so that he could readily turn to any of them. And yet, tho' afterwards he was removed to a place far enough distant from any of that Auditory, yet (though some have desired it) he seldom preached any of those hundreds of Sermons which he had preached at Worthenbury, no not when he preached never so privately, but to the last he studied new Sermons, and wrote them as elaborately as ever; for he thought a Sermon best preached, when it ⟨p. 69⟩was newly meditated: Nay, if sometimes he had occasion to preach upon the same Text, yet he would make and write the Sermons over; and he never offered that to God which cost him nothing.

He kept his Sermon-Notes in very neat and exact Order; Sermons in Course, according to the Order of the Subject▪ and occasional Sermons according to the Scripture-order of the Texts; so that he could readily turn to any of them. And yet, tho' afterwards he was removed to a place far enough distant from any of that Auditory, yet (though some have desired it) he seldom preach'd any of those hundreds of Sermons which he had preach'd at Worthenbury, no not when he preach'd never so privately, but to the last he studied new Sermons, and wrote them as elaborately as ever; for he thought a Sermon best preach'd, when it ⟨p. 69⟩was newly meditated: Nay, if sometimes he had occasion to preach upon the same Text, yet he would make and write the Sermons over; and he never offered that to God which cost him nothing.

When he went to Oxford, and preached there before the University in Christ-Church, as he did several times, his Labours were not only very acceptable, but successful too; particularly one Sermon which he preached there, on