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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 might be of use (especially to those who had the happiness of sitting under his Ministry) to give some Account of the Method of his Sabbath Subjects, during the last Eight or Nine Years of his Ministry; ⟨p. 177⟩and it was designed, till 'twas found 'twould swell this Narrative into too great a Bulk.
It might be of use (especially to those who had the happiness of sitting under his Ministry) to give some Account of the Method of his Sabbath Subjects, during the last Eight or Nine Years of his Ministry; ⟨p. 177⟩and it was design'd, till 'twas found 'twould swell this Narrative into too great a Bulk.
2. As to the Administration of the Sacraments, those Mysteries of God, which Ministers are the Stewards of.
As to the Sacrament of Baptism, he had never (that I know of) Baptized any Children (except his own) from the time he was turned out in 1662. till this last Liberty came, though often desired to do it; such was the tender regard he had to the Established Church; but now he revived the Administration of that Ordinance in his Congregation. The occasion was this; One of the Parish-Ministers Preaching at Whitewe• Chapel, Mr. Henry and his Family, and many of his Friends being present, was earnestly cautioning People not to go to Conventicles, and used this as an Argument against it, That they were Baptized into the Church of England: Mr. Henry's Catholic Charity could not well digest this Monopolizing of the great Ordinance of Baptism, and thought it time to bear his Testimony against such narrow Principles, which he ever expressed his dislike of in all Parties and Persuasions. Accordingly he took the next opportunity that offered it self, publicly to Baptize a Child, and desired the Congregation to bear witness, That he did not Baptize that Child into the Church of England, nor into the Church of Scotland, nor into the Church of the Dissenters, nor into the Church at Broad-Oak, but into the visible Catholic Church of Jesus Christ. After this he Baptized very many, and always publicly, though being in the Country they were commonly carried a good way. The public Administration of Baptism, he not only judged most agreeable to the Nature and End of the Ordinance, but found to be very profitable and edifying to the Congregation; for