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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.
In these Circumstances of Silence and Restraint, he took comfort himself, and administered Comfort to others from that Scripture Isa. 16. 4. Let mine out-casts dwell with thee Moab. God's People may be an Out-cast People, cast out of mens Love, their Synagogues, their Country; but God will own his People when Men cast them out; they are out-casts, but they are ⟨p. 110⟩his, and somewhere or other he will provide a dwelling for them. There were many worthy, able Ministers thereabouts turned out, both from Work and Subsistence, that had not such comfortable Support for the Life that now is, as Mr. Henry had, for whom he was most affectionately concerned, and to whom he showed kindness. There were computed within a few Miles round him, so many Ministers turned out to the wide World, stripped of all their Maintenance, and exposed to continual Hardships, as with their Wives and Children (having most of them Numerous Families) made up above a Hundred, that lived upon Providence; and though oft reduced to wants and straits, yet were not forsaken, but were enabled to rejoice in the Lord, and to joy in the God of their Salvation notwithstanding: to whom the promise was fulfilled, Psal. 37. 3. So shalt thou dwell in the Land, and verily thou shalt be fed. The World was told long since, by the Conformists Plea, that the worthy Mr. Lawrence (Mr. Henry's intimate Friend) when he was turned out of Baschurch, and (if he would have Consulted with Flesh and Blood) having (as was said of one of the Martyrs) Eleven good Arguments against Suffering, viz. a Wife and Ten Children; was asked how he meant to maintain them all, and cheerfully replied, they must all live upon the 6th of Matthew, Take no thought for your Life, &c. and he often sung with his Family Psal. 37. 16. And Mr. Henry hath Noted concerning him in his Diary, some time after he was turned out, that he bore witness to the love and care of our Heavenly Father, providing for him and his in his present Condition, beyond Expectation.
In these Circumstances of Silence and Restraint, he took comfort himself, and administred Comfort to others from that Scripture