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

What a grief of Heart it was to him, to be thus put under a Bushel, and confined to such a narrow Sphere of Usefulness, read in his own words, which I shall Transcribe out of an Elegy he made (to give vent to his thoughts) upon the Death of his worthy Friend Mr George Mainwaring, sometime Minister of Malpas, (who was Silenced by the Act of Uniformity, and Died Mar. 14. 1669/70) wherein he thus bewails (feelingly enough) the like restraints and Confinements of his Friend. His later Years he sadly spent, Wrapped up in Silence and Restraint. A Burden such as none do know, But they that do it undergo. To have a Fire shut up and pent Within the Bowels, and no vent; To have gorged Breasts, and by a Law Those that fain would, forbidden to draw. But his dumb Sabbaths here did prove, Loud crying Sabbaths in Heaven above. His Tears, when he might sow no more, Watering what he had Sown before.

What a grief of Heart it was to him, to be thus put under a Bushel, and consin'd to such a narrow Sphere of Usefulness, read in his own words, which I shall Transcribe out of an Elegy he made (to give vent to his thoughts) upon the Death of his worthy Friend Mr George Mainwaring, sometime Minister of Malpas, (who was Silenced by the Act of Uniformity, and Dy'd Mar. 14. 1669/70) wherein he thus bewails (feelingly enough) the like restraints and Confinements of his Friend. His later Years he sadly spent, Wrap't up in Silence and Restraint. A Burthen such as none do know, But they that do it undergo. To have a Fire shut up and pent Within the Bowels, and no vent; To have gorg'd Breasts, and by a Law Those that fain would, forbidden to draw. But his dumbSabbaths here did prove, Loud crying Sabbaths in Heaven above. His Tears, when he might sow no more, Wat'ring what he had Sown before.

Soon after his Settlement at Broad-Oak, he took a young Scholar into the House with him; partly to teach his ⟨p. 132⟩Son, and partly to be a Companion to himself to Converse with him, and to receive help and instruction from him; and for many Years, he was seldom without one or other such; who before their going to the University, or in the intervals of their attendance there, would be in his Family, sitting under his Shadow. One of the first he had with him, in the Year 1668. (and after) was Mr. William Turner, born in the Neighbourhood; afterwards of Edmund Hall in Oxford, now Vicar of Walberton in Sussex, to whom the World is beholden for that Elaborate History of all Religions, which he Published in the Year 1695. and from whom is earnestly expected the Performance of that Noble and useful Project, for the Record of Providences. Betwixt Mr. Henry and him there was a most entire and affectionate Friendship; and notwithstanding that distance of place, a constant and endearing Correspondence, kept up as long as Mr. Henry lived.