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

But the Lord's Day he called and counted the Queen of Days, the Pearl of the Week, and observed it accordingly. The Fourth Commandment intimates a special regard to be had to the Sabbath in Families, Thou and thy Son and thy Daughter, &c. it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your Dwellings. In this therefore he was very exact, and abounded in the work of the Lord in his Family on that Day. Whatever were the Circumstances of his Public Opportunities, (which varied, as we shall find afterwards) his Family Religion on that day was the same: Extraordinary Sacrifices must never supersede the continual Burnt-offering and his Meat-offering, Numb. 28. 15. His common Salutation of his Family or Friends, on the Lord's Day in the Morning, was that of the Primitive Christians; The Lord is risen, he is risen indeed; making it his chief Business on that day to Celebrate the Memory of Christ's Resurrection; and he would say sometimes, Every Lord's Day, is a true Christians Easter-day. He took care to have his Family ready early on that day, and was larger in Exposition and Prayer on Sabbath-Mornings, than on other days. He would often remember, that under the Law the daily Sacrifice was doubled on Sabbath-days, two Lambs in the Morning, and two in the Evening. He had always a particular Subject for his Expositions on Sabbath Mornings; the Harmony of the Evangelists several times over; the Scripture Prayers; Old Testament Prophesies of Christ; Christ the true Treasure (so he Entitled that Subject) sought and found in the Field of the Old Testament. He constantly sung a Psalm after Dinner, and another after Supper, on the Lord's Days. And in the Evening of the Day his Children and Servants were Catechized and Examined ⟨p. 87⟩in the sense and meaning of the Answers in the Catechism, that they might not say it (as he used to tell them) like a Parrot, by Rote. Then the Days Sermons were repeated, commonly by one of his Children when they were grown up, and while they were with him; and the Family gave an Account what they could remember of the word of the Day, which he endeavoured to fasten upon them, as a Nail in a sure place. In his Prayers on the Evening of the Sabbath, he was often more than ordinarily Enlarged; as one that found not only God's Service perfect Freedom, but his Work its own Wages; and a great Reward; not only after keeping, but (as he used to observe from Ps.

But the Lord's Day he called and counted the Queen of Days, the Pearl of the Week, and observed it accordingly. The Fourth Commandment intimates a special regard to be had to the Sabbath in Families, Thou and thy Son and thy Daughter, &c. it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your Dwellings. In this therefore he was very exact, and abounded in the work of the Lord in his Family on that Day. Whatever were the Circumstances of his Publick Opportunities, (which vari'd, as we shall find afterwards) his Family Religion on that day was the same: Extraordinary Sacrifices must never supersede the continual Burnt-offering and his Meat-offering,