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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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Having thus laid together the Instances of his Family Religion, we must now return to the History of Events that were concerning him, and are obliged to look back to the first Year after his Marriage, which was the Year that King Charles the Second came in; a Year of great Changes and struggles in the Land, which Mr. Baxter in his Life gives a full and clear and Impartial Idea of; by which it may easily be guessed, how it went with Mr. Henry in his low and narrow Sphere, whose Sentiments in those things were very much the same with Mr. Baxter's.
HAving thus laid together the Instances of his Family Religion, we must now return to the History of Events that were concerning him, and are obliged to look back to the first Year after his Marriage, which was the Year that King Charles the Second came in; a Year of great Changes and struggles in the Land, which Mr. Baxter in his Life gives a full and clear and Impartial Idea of; by which it may easily be guess'd, how it went with Mr. Henry in his low and narrow Sphere, whose Sentiments in those things were very much the same with Mr. Baxter's.
Many of his best Friends in Worthenbury Parish were lately removed by Death; Emeral Family contrary to what it had been; and the same Spirit which that Year revived all the Nation over was working violently in that Country, viz. a Spirit of great Enmity to such Men as Mr. Henry was. Worthenbury, upon the Kings coming in, returned into its former Relation to Bangor, and was looked upon as a ⟨p. 95⟩Chapelry dependant upon that. Mr. Robert Fog had for many Years held the sequestered Rectory of Bangor, to which now Dr. Henry Bridgman (Son to John Bishop of Chester, and Brother to the Lord Keeper Bridgeman) returned to the Possession of. By which Mr. Henry was soon Apprehensive that his Interest at Worthenbury was shaken, but thus he writes. The will of the Lord be done. Lord If my Work be done here, provide some other for this People that may be more Skilful, and more Successful, and cut out Work for me elsewhere; However, I will take nothing ill which God doth with me.