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An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the…
An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the gospel near Whitechurch in Shropshire, who died June 24, 1696, in the sixty fifth year of his ageAn account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the gospel near Whitechurch in Shropshire, who dy'd June 24, 1696, in the sixty fifth year of his age
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He next sung a Psalm, and commonly he sung David's Psalms in order, throughout; sometimes using the old Translation, but generally Mr. Barton's: and his usual way was to sing a whole Psalm throughout, though perhaps a long one, and to sing quick; (yet with a good variety of proper and pleasant Tunes) and that he might do so, usually the Psalm was sung without reading the Line betwixt, (every one in the Family having a Book) which he preferred much before the common way of Singing, where it might conveniently be done, as more agreeable to the Practise of the Primitive Church, and the Reformed Churches abroad; and by this means he thought the Duty more likely to be performed in the Spirit and with the Understanding; the Sense being not so broken, nor the affections interrupted, as in reading the Line betwixt. He would say, that a Scripture Ground for singing Psalms in Families, might be taken from Psal. 118. 15. The voice of Rejoicing and of Salvation, is in the Tabernacles of the Righteous; and that it is a way to hold forth Godliness (like Rahab's ⟨p. 80⟩Scarlet Thread, Josh. 2. 17.) to such as pass by our Windows.
He next sung a Psalm, and commonly he sung David's Psalms in order, throughout; sometimes using the old Translation, but generally Mr. Barton's: and his usual way was to sing a whole Psalm throughout, thô perhaps a long one, and to sing quick; (yet with a good variety of proper and pleasant Tunes) and that he might do so, usually the Psalm was sung without reading the Line betwixt, (every one in the Family having a Book) which he preferred much before the common way of Singing, where it might conveniently be done, as more agreeable to the Practise of the Primitive Church, and the Reformed Churches abroad; and by this means he thought the Duty more likely to be performed in the Spirit and with the Understanding; the Sense being not so broken, nor the affections interrupted, as in reading the Line betwixt. He would say, that a Scripture Ground for singing Psalms in Families, might be taken from Psal. 118. 15. The voice of Rejoycing and of Salvation, is in the Tabernacles of the Righteous; and that it is a way to hold forth Godliness (like Rahab's ⟨p. 80⟩