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

but after a while, their other Affairs would fall in easily and naturally with this especially where there is that Wisdom which is profitable to direct. Nay, they would find it to be a great preserver of Order and Decency in a Family, and would be like a Hem to all their other Business, to keep it from Ravelling. He was ever careful to have all his Family present at Family-Worship; though sometimes living in the Country he had a great Household; yet he would have not only his Children and Sojourners, (if he had any) and Domestic Servants, but his Workmen and Day-Labourers, and all that were employed for him, if they were within call to be present, to join with him in this Service; and as it was an act of his Charity many times to set them to work for him, so to that he added this act of Piety, to set them to work for God. And usually when he paid his Workmen their Wages, he gave them some good Counsel about their Souls: Yet if any that should come to Family-Worship were •t a distance, and must be staid for long, he would rather want them, than put the Duty much out of time; and would sometimes say at a Night, Better one away than all sleepy.

but after a while, their other Affairs would fall in easily and naturally with this especially where there is that Wisdom which is profitable to direct. Nay, they would find it to be a great preserver of Order and Decency in a Family, and would be like a Hem to all their other Business, to keep it from Ravelling. He was ever careful to have all his Family present at Family-Worship; though sometimes living in the Country he had a great Houshold; yet he would have not only his Children and Sojourners, (if he had any) and Domestick Servants, but his Workmen and Day-Labourers, and all that were employ'd for him, if they were within call to be present, to join with him in this Service; and as it was an act of his Charity many times to set them to work for him, so to that he added this act of Piety, to set them to work for God. And usually when he paid his Workmen their Wages, he gave them some good Counsel about their Souls: Yet if any that should come to Family-Worship were •t a distance, and must be staid for long, he would rather want them, than put the Duty much out of time; and would sometimes say at a Night, Better one away than all sleepy.