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

'Twas several Weeks after the Declaration came out, that he received a License to Preach, as Paul did, in his own House, and elsewhere, no Man forbidding him. This was procured for him by some of his Friends at London, without his Privity, and came to him altogether unexpected. The use he made of it was, that at his own House, what he did before to his own Family, and in Private, the Doors being shut for Fear, he now did more Publicly; threw his Doors open, and welcomed his Neighbours to him, to partake of his Spiritual things: Only one Sermon in the Evening of the Lord's Day, when there was Preaching at Whitewel Chapel, where he still continued his Attendance with his Family and Friends, as usual; but when there was not, he spent the whole Day, at public time, in the Services of the Day, Exposition of the Scriptures read, and Preaching, with Prayer and Praise. This he did gratis, receiving nothing for his Labours, either at home or abroad, but the Satisfaction of doing good to Souls (which was his Meat and Drink) with the trouble and charge of giving Entertainment to many of his Friends, which he did with much cheerfulness; and he would say, he sometimes thought, that the Bread did even Multiply in the Breaking; and he found, that God did abundantly bless his Provision, with that Blessing, which, as he used to say, will make a little go a great way. He was wont to observe, for the encouragement of such as had Meetings in their Houses, (which sometimes drew upon them inconveniences) That the Ark is a Guest, that always pays well for its Entertainment. And he Noted, that when Christ had borrowed Peter's •oat to preach a Sermon out of it, he presently repaid him for the Loan, with a great draught of Fishes, Luke 5. […], 4.

'Twas several Weeks after the Declaration came out, that he received a License to Preach, as Paul did, in his own House, and elsewhere, no Man forbidding him. This was procur'd for him by some of his Friends at London, without his Privity, and came to him altogether unexpected. The use he made of it was, that at his own House, what he did before to his own Family, and in Private, the Doors being shut for Fear, he now did more Publickly; threw his Doors open, and welcomed his Neighbours to him, to partake of his Spiritual things: Only one Sermon in the Evening of the Lord's Day, when there was Preaching at Whitewel Chapel, where he still continued his Attendance with his Family and Friends, as usual; but when there was not, he spent the whole Day, at publick time, in the Services of the Day, Exposition of the Scriptures read, and Preaching, with Prayer and Praise. This he did gratis, receiving nothing for his Labours, either at home or abroad, but the Satisfaction of doing good to Souls (which was his Meat and Drink) with the trouble and charge of giving Entertainment to many of his Friends, which he did with much cheerfulness; and he would say, he sometimes thought, that the Bread did even Multiply in the Breaking; and he found, that God did abundantly bless his Provision, with that Blessing, which, as he used to say, will make a little go a great way. He was wont to observe, for the encouragement of such as had Meetings in their Houses, (which sometimes drew upon them inconveniencies) That the Ark is a Guest, that always pays well for its Entertainment. And he Noted, that when Christ had borrowed Peter's oat to preach a Sermon out of it, he presently repaid him for the Loan, with a great draught of Fishes,