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

I remember a passage of his in a Lecture Sermon, in the Year 1674. which much affected many; he was preaching on that Text, Matt. 11. 30. My Yoke is easy; and after many things insisted upon, to prove the Yoke of Christ an easy Yoke, he at last appealed to the Experiences of all that had drawn in that Yoke. Call now if there be any that will answer you, and to which of the Saints will you turn? turn to which you will, and they will all agree that they have found Wisdoms ways Pleasantness, and Christ's Commandments not grievous: and (saith he) I will here witness for one, who through Grace have in some poor measure been drawing in this Yoke, now above thirty Years, and I have found it an easy Yoke, and like my Choice too well to change.

I remember a passage of his in a Lecture Sermon, in the Year 1674. which much affected many; he was preaching on that Text, Matt. 11. 30. My Yoke is easie; and after many things insisted upon, to prove the Yoke of Christ an easie Yoke, he at last appealed to the Experiences of all that had drawn in that Yoke. Call now if there be any that will answer you, and to which of the Saints will you turn? turn to which you will, and they will all agree that they have found Wisdoms ways Pleasantness, and Christ's Commandments not grievous: and (saith he) I will here witness for one, who through Grace have in some poor measure been drawing in this Yoke, now above thirty Years, and I have found it an easie Yoke, and like my Choice too well to change.

3. He would also recommend it to the care of Parents, to bring their Children betimes to public Ordinances. He would say, that they are capable sooner than we are aware, of receiving good by them. The Scripture takes Notice more than once of the little ones in the solemn Assemblies of the Faithful, Deut. 29. 11. Ezra 10. 1