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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.
At Lady-day 1666. The Five-mile Act, commenced, by which all Nonconformist Ministers, were forbidden upon pain of Sixth Months imprisonment to come, or be within five Miles of any Corporation, or of any pla•e, where they had been Ministers, unless they would take an Oath: of which Mr. Baxter saith, 'twas credibly reported, that the Earl of Southampton then Lord High Treasurer of England said, no honest Man could take it. Mr. Baxter in his Life, hath set down at large, his Reasons against taking this Oxford Oath, as it was called, part. 2. p. 396. &c. part. 3. p. 4. &c. Mr. Henry, set his down in short. 'Twas an Oath, not at any time, to endeavour any Alteration of the Government in the Church or State. He had already taken an Oath of Allegiance to the King, and he looked upon this to amount to an Oath of Allegiance to the Bishops, which he was not free to take, Thus he writes, March. 22. 1665/6.
At Lady-day 1666. The Five-mile Act, commenced, by which all Nonconformist Ministers, were forbidden upon pain of Sixth Months imprisonment to come, or be within five Miles of any Corporation, or of any pla•e, where they had been Ministers, unless they would take an Oath: of which Mr. Baxter saith, 'twas credibly reported, that the Earl of Southampton then Lord High Treasurer of England said, no honest Man could take it. Mr. Baxter in his Life, hath set down at large, his Reasons against taking this Oxford Oath, as it was called, part. 2. p. 396. &c. part. 3. p. 4. &c. Mr. Henry, set his down in short. 'Twas an Oath, not at any time, to endeavour any Alteration of the Government in the Church or State. He had already taken an Oath of Allegiance to the King, and he look'd upon this to amount to an Oath of Allegiance to the Bishops, which he was not free to take, Thus he writes, March. 22. 1665/6.