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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.
19. 11.) in keeping God's Commandments. A perfect Reward of Obedience in Obedience. In that Prayer he was usually very particular, in praying for his Family and all that belonged to it. It was a Prayer he often put up, that we might have Grace to carry it as a Minister, and a Minister's Wife, and a Minister's Children, and a Minister's Servants should carry it, that the Ministry might in nothing be blamed. He would sometimes be a particular Intercessor for the Towns and Parishes adjacent: How have I heard him, when he hath been in the Mount with God, in a Sabbath Evening Prayer, wrestle with the Lord for Chester, and Shrewsbury, and Nantwich, and Wrexham, and Whitchurch, &c. those nests of Souls, wherein there are so many, that cannot discern between their Right Hand and their Left in Spiritual things, &c. He closed his Sabbath Work in his Family with singing Psalm 134. and after it a solemn Blessing of his Family.
19. 11.) in keeping God's Commandments. A perfect Reward of Obedience in Obedience. In that Prayer he was usually very particular, in praying for his Family and all that belong'd to it. It was a Prayer he often put up, that we might have Grace to carry it as a Minister, and a Minister's Wife, and a Minister's Children, and a Minister's Servants should carry it, that the Ministry might in nothing be blamed. He would sometimes be a particular Intercessor for the Towns and Parishes adjacent: How have I heard him, when he hath been in the Mount with God, in a Sabbath Evening Prayer, wrestle with the Lord for Chester, and Shrewsbury, and Nantwich, and Wrexham, and Whitchurch, &c. those nests of Souls, wherein there are so many, that cannot discern between their Right Hand and their Left in Spiritual things, &c. He closed his Sabbath Work in his Family with singing Psalm 134. and after it a solemn Blessing of his Family.
Thus was he Prophet and Priest in his own House; and he was King there too, Ruling in the fear of God, and not suffering Sin upon any under his Roof.