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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
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He managed his daily Family-Worship, so as to make it a Pleasure and not a Task to his Children and Servants; for he was seldom long, and never tedious in the Service; the variety of the Duties made it the more pleasant; so that none who joined with him had ever any reason to say, Behold what a Weariness is it! Such an Excellent Faculty he had of rendering Religion the most sweet and amiable Employment in the World; and so careful was he (like Jacob) to drive as the Children could go, not putting new Wine into old Bottles. If some good People that mean well would do likewise, it might prevent many of those Prejudices ⟨p. 85⟩which young Persons are apt to conceive against Religion, when the Services of it are made a Toil and a Terror to them.
He managed his daily Family-Worship, so as to make it a Pleasure and not a Task to his Children and Servants; for he was seldom long, and never tedious in the Service; the variety of the Duties made it the more pleasant; so that none who join'd with him had ever any reason to say, Behold what a Weariness is it! Such an Excellent Faculty he had of rendring Religion the most sweet and aimable Employment in the World; and so careful was he (like Iacob) to drive as the Children could go, not putting new Wine into old Bottles. If some good People that mean well would do likewise, it might prevent many of those Prejudices ⟨p. 85⟩which young Persons are apt to conceive against Religion, when the Services of it are made a Toil and a Terror to them.
On Thursday Evenings (instead of Reading) he Catechized his Children and Servants in the Assemblies Catechism, with the Proofs, or sometimes in a little Catechism, Concerning the matter of Prayer, published in the Year 1674. and said to be written by Dr. Collins, which they learned for their help in the Gift of Prayer, and he Explained it to them. Or else they Read, and he Examined them in some other useful Book, as Mr. Pool's Dialogues against the Papists, the Assemblies Confession of Faith with the Scriptures, or the like.