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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 sometimes set his Children in their own reading of the Scriptures, to gather out such Passages as they took most notice of, and thought most considerable, and write them down: Though this Performance was very small, yet the Endeavour was of good use. He also directed them to insert in a Paper Book, which each of them had for the purpose, Remarkable Sayings and Stories, which they met with in Reading such other good Books as he put into their hands.
He took a Pleasure in relating to them the remarkable Providences of God, both in his own time and in the days of Old, which he said, Parents were taught to do by that Appointment, Exod. 12. 26, 27. Your Children shall ask you in Time to come; what mean you by this Service? and you shall tell them so and so.
What his pious Care was concerning his Children, and with what a godly Jealousy he was jealous over them, take in one Instance; when they had been for a week or Fortnight kindly entertained at B. (as they were often) he thus writes in his Diary upon their Return home. My Care and Fear is, lest Converse with such so far above them, Though of the best, should have Influence upon them to lift them up, when I had rather they should be kept low. For as he did not himself, so he was very Solicitous to teach his Children, not to mind high Things, not to desire them, not to expect them in this World.
What his pious Care was concerning his Children, and with what a godly Jealousie he was jealous over them, take in one Instance; when they had been for a week or Fortnight kindly entertained at B. (as they were often) he thus writes in his Diary upon their Return home. My Care and Fear is, lest Converse with such so far above them, Though of the best, should have Influence upon them to lift them up, when I had rather they should be kept low. For as he did not himself, so he was very Sollicitous to teach his Children, not to mind high Things, not to desire them, not to expect them in this World.