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

I have been thus large in gathering these hints out of that Sermon, (which he took all occasions, in other Sermons to inculcate, as all his Brethren likewise did) that if possible it may be a Conviction to the present Generation; or however, may be a Witness in time to come, that the Nonconformist Ministers, were not Enemies to Caesar, nor troublers of the Land; nor their Meetings any way tending to the disturbance of the public Peace, but purely designed to help to repair the Decays of Christian Piety.

I have been thus large in gathering these hints out of that Sermon, (which he took all occasions, in other Sermons to inculcate, as all his Brethren likewise did) that if possible it may be a Conviction to the present Generation; or however, may be a Witness in time to come, that the Nonconformist Ministers, were not Enemies to Caesar, nor troublers of the Land; nor their Meetings any way tending to the disturbance of the publick Peace, but purely design'd to help to repair the Decays of Christian Piety.

All that knew Mr. Henry, knew very well that his Practise all his days, was consonant to these his settled Principles.

In May 1668. he returned again with his Family from Whitchurch to Broad-Oak, which, through the good Hand of his God upon him, continued his settled home, without any Remove from it, till he was removed to his long home above twenty eight Years after. The edge of the Five Mile Act began now a little to rebate, at least in that Country; and he was desirous to be more useful to the Neighbours, among whom God had given him an Estate, than he could be at a distance from them, by relieving the Poor, employing the Labourers, and especially instructing the Ignorant, and helping as many as he could to Heaven. He made that Scripture his standing Rule, and wrote it in the beginning of his Book of Accounts,