A26780:353
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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CHAP. VIII.
The last Nine Years of his Life in Liberty and Enlargement at Broad-Oak, from the Year 1687.
The last Nine Years of his Life in Liberty and Inlargement at Broad-Oak, from the Year 1687.
IT was in the latter end of the Year 1685. when the stream run so very strong against the Dissenters, that Mr. Henry, being in Discourse with a very great Man of the Church of England, mentioned King Charles's Indulgence in 1672. as that which gave rise to his stated Preaching in a separate Assembly; and added, if the present King James should in like manner give me leave, I would do the same again: to which that great Man replied, Never expect any such thing from him, for take my word for it, he hates you Nonconformists in his Heart. Truly (said Mr. Henry) I believe it, and I think he doth not love you of the Church of England neither. It was then little thought, that the same Right Reverend Person who said so to him, should have the Honour, as he had soon after, to be one of the Seven Bishops committed to the Tower by King James; as it was also far from any ones Expectation, ⟨p. 165⟩that the same King James should so quickly give liberty to the Nonconformists: But we live in a World, wherein we are to think nothing strange, nor be surprised at any turn of the Wheel of Nature, as 'tis called, Jam. 3. 6.