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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.
After the Sermon in the Morning, he sung the 117th Psalm, without reading the Line.
He intermitted at Noon about an Hour and a half, and on Sacrament days not near so long, in which time he took some little Refreshment in his Study, making no solemn Dinner; yet many of his Friends did partake of his Carnal, as well as of his Spiritual things, as those did that followed Christ, of whom he was careful they should not faint by the way. The Morning Sermon was repeated, by a ready Writer, to those that staid in the Meeting place, as many did, and when that was done, he begun the Afternoons Exercise; in which he not only Read and Expounded a Chapter, but Catechized the Children, and Expounded the Catechism briefly before Sermon. Thus did he go from strength to strength, and from Duty to Duty, on Sabbath-days; running the ways of God's Commandments with an enlarged Heart. And the variety and vivacity of his public Services, made them exceeding pleasant to all that joined with him, who never had cause to complain of his being tedious. He used to say, Every Minute of Sabbath Time is precious, and none of it to be lost; And that he scarce thought the Lord's day well spent, if he were not weary in Body at Night; wearied with his Work, but not weary of it, as he used to distinguish. He would say sometimes to ⟨p. 175⟩those about him, when he had gone through the Duties of a Sabbath; Well, if this be not the way to Heaven, I do not know what is. In pressing People to Number their days, he would especially exhort them to Number their Sabbath-days, how many they have been, and how ill they have been spent; how few 'tis like they may be, that they may be spent better; and to help in the Account he would say, that for every twenty Years of our Lives, we enjoy above a thousand Sabbaths, which must all be accounted for in the day of Reckoning.
He intermitted at Noon about an Hour and a half, and on Sacrament days not near so long, in which time he took some little Refreshment in his Study, making no solemn Dinner; yet many of his Friends did partake of his Carnal, as well as of his Spiritual things, as those did that follow'd Christ, of whom he was careful they should not faint by the way. The Morning Sermon was repeated, by a ready Writer, to those that staid in the Meeting place, as many did, and when that was done, he begun the Afternoons Exercise; in which he not only Read and Expounded a Chapter, but Catechized the Children, and Expounded the Catechism briefly before Sermon. Thus did he go from strength to strength, and from Duty to Duty, on Sabbath-days; running the ways of God's Commandments with an enlarged Heart. And the variety and vivacity of his publick Services, made them exceeding pleasant to all that joined with him, who never had cause to complain of his being tedious. He us'd to say, Every Minute of Sabbath Time is precious, and none of it to be lost; And that he scarce thought the Lord's day well spent, if he were not weary in Body at Night; wearied with his Work, but not weary of it, as he used to distinguish. He would say sometimes to