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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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It was also soon after this Settlement of his at Broad-Oak, that he Contracted an intimate Friendship with that learned and pious, and judicious Gentleman Mr. Hunt of Boreatton, (the Son of Colonel Hunt of Salop) and with his excellent Lady Frances, Daughter of the Right Honourable the Lord Paget. The Acquaintance then begun betwixt Mr. Henry and that worthy Family continued to his dying day, about Thirty Years. One Lords day in a Quarter he commonly spent with them, besides other interviews: And it was a constant rejoicing to him to see Religion and the Power of Godliness uppermost, in such a Family as that; when not many Mighty, not many Noble are called, and the Branches of it, Branches of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord. Divers of the Honourable Relations of that Family contracted a very great respect for him, particularly the present Lord Paget, now his Majesty's Ambassador at the Ottoman Court, and Sir Henry Ashurst, whom we shall have occasion afterwards to make mention of.
It was also soon after this Settlement of his at Broad-Oak, that he Contracted an intimate Friendship with that learned and pious, and judicious Gentleman Mr. Hunt of Boreatton, (the Son of Colonel Hunt of Salop) and with his excellent Lady Frances, Daughter of the Right Honourable the Lord Paget. The Acquaintance then begun betwixt Mr. Henry and that worthy Family continued to his dying day, about Thirty Years. One Lords day in a Quarter he commonly spent with them, besides other interviews: And it was a constant rejoycing to him to see Religion and the Power of Godliness uppermost, in such a Family as that; when not many Mighty, not many Noble are called, and the Branches of it, Branches of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord. Divers of the Honourable Relations of that Family contracted a very great respect for him, particularly the present Lord Paget, now his Majesty's Ambassador at the Ottoman Court, and Sir Henry Ashurst, whom we shall have occasion afterwards to make mention of.
In the time of Trouble and Distress, by the Conventicle Act, in 1670. he kept private, and stirred little abroad, as loth to offend those that were in Power, and judging it Prudence to gather in his Sails, when the Storm was violent: He then observed, as that which he was troubled at, That there was a great deal of precious time lost among Professors, when they came together, in discoursing of their Adventures to meet, and their escapes, which he feared tended more to set up self, than to give Glory to God. Also in telling how they got together, and such a one Preached, but little enquiring what Spiritual Benefit