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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.
CHAP. VI.
His Liberty by the Indulgence in 1672. and thence forwards, to the Year 1681.
Notwithstanding the severe Act against Conventicles, in the Year 1670. yet the Nonconformists in London, ventured to set up Meetings in 1671. and were connived at; but in the Country there was little Liberty taken till the King's Declaration of March 15. 1671/2. gave Countenance and Encouragement to it. What were the secret Springs which produced that Declaration Time Discovered; however, it was to the poor Dissenters, as Life from the Dead, and gave them some reviving in their Bondage, God graciously ordering it so, that the Spirit he had made might not fail before him. But so precarious a Liberty was it, that it should never be said, those People were hard to be pleased, who were so well pleased with that, and thanked God who put such a thing into the King's Heart. The Tenor of that Declaration was this; In Consideration of the inefficacy of Rigour, tried for divers Years, and to invite Strangers into the Kingdom, ratifying the Establishment of the Church of England, it suspends Penal Laws against all Nonconformists and Recusants, ⟨p. 136⟩promiseth to License separate places for Meetings, limiting Papists only to private Houses.
NOtwithstanding the severe Act against Conventicles, in the Year 1670. yet the Nonconformists in London, ventur'd to set up Meetings in 1671. and were conniv'd at; but in the Country there was little Liberty taken till the King's Declaration of March 15. 1671/2. gave Countenance and Encouragement to it. What were the secret Springs which produced that Declaration Time Discovered; however, it was to the poor Dissenters, as Life from the Dead, and gave them some reviving in their Bondage, God graciously ordering it so, that the Spirit he had made might not fail before him. But so precarious a Liberty was it, that it should never be said, those People were hard to be pleased, who were so well pleased with that, and thanked God who put such a thing into the King's Heart. The Tenor of that Declaration was this; In Consideration of the inefficacy of Rigor, tryed for divers Years, and to invite Strangers into the Kingdom, ratifying the Establishment of the Church of England, it suspends Penal Laws against all Nonconformists and Recusants,