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

He thought it a Mercy (since it must be so) that the Case of Nonconformity was made so clear as it was, abundantly to satisfy him in his Silence and Sufferings. I have heard that Mr. Anthony Burgess, who hesitated before, when he read the Act, blessed God that the Matter was put cut of doubt. And yet to make sure Work, the Printing and Publishing of the New Book of Common-Prayer was so deferred, that few of the Ministers, except those in London, could possibly get a sight of it much less duly consider of it before the time prefixed; which Mr. Steel took Notice of in his Farewell-Sermon at Hanmer, August 17. 1662. That he was silenced and turned out, for not declaring his ⟨p. 105⟩unfeigned Assent and Consent to a Book which he never saw nor could see.

He thought it a Mercy (since it must be so) that the Case of Nonqonformity was made so clear as it was, abundantly to satisfie him in his Silence and Sufferings. I have heard that Mr. Anthony Burgoss, who hesitated before, when he read the Act, blessed God that the Matter was put cut of doubt. And yet to make sure Work, the Printing and Publishing of the New Book of Common-Prayer was so deferr'd, that few of the Ministers, except those in London, could possibly get a sight of it much less duly consider of it before the time prefix'd; which Mr. Steel took Notice of in his Farewel-Sermon at Hanmer, August 17. 1662. That he was silenced and turn'd out, for not declaring his ⟨p. 105⟩unfeigned Assent and Consent to a Book which he never saw nor could see.

One thing which he comforted himself with in his Nonconformity was, that as to Matters of doubtful Disputation touching Church-Government, Ceremonies and the like, he was unsworn either on one side or the other, and so was free from those snares and bands in which so many find themselves both tied up from what they would do, and entangled that they knew not what to do. He was one of those that feared an Oath,