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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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His Susceptors in Baptism were Philip Earl of Pembroke (who gave him his Name, and was kind to him as long as he lived, as was also his Son Philip after him) James Earl of Carlisle, and the Countess of Salisbury.
His Susceptors in Baptism were Philip Earl of Pembroke (who gave him his Name, and was kind to him as long as he lived, as was also his Son Philip after him) Iames Earl of Carlile, and the Countess of Salsbury.
Prince Charles and the Duke of York being somewhat near of an Age to him, he was in his Childhood very much an Attendant upon them in their Play, and they were often with him at his Father's House, and were wont to tell him what Preferment he should ⟨p. 5⟩have at Court, as soon as he was fit for it. He kept a Book to his Dying Day, which the Duke of York gave him; and I have heard him bewail the loss of Two curious Pictures, which he gave him likewise, Arch-bishop Laud took a particular Kindness to him when he was a Child, because he would be very officious to attend at the Water-Gate (which was part of his Fathers Charge in White-hall) to let the Arch-Bishop through when he came late from Council, to cross the Water to Lambeth.
These Circumstances of his Childhood he would sometimes speak of among his Friends, not as glorying in them, but taking occasion from thence to bless God for his Deliverance from the Snares of the Court, in the midst of which it is so very hard to maintain a good Conscience and the Power of Religion, that it hath been said (though Blessed be God it is not a Rule without exception) Exeat ex aulâ qui velit esse pius. The breaking up and scattering of the Court, by the Calamities of 1641. as it dashed the expectations of his Court Preferments, so it prevented the danger of Court Entanglements: And though it was not, like Moses's Choice of his own, when come to Years, to quit the Court; yet when he was come to Years he always expressed a great Satisfaction in his Removal from it, and blessed God who chose his Inheritance so much better for him.