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

He was sometimes suddenly taken with fainting Fits, which when he recovered from, he would say, Dying is but a little more.

When he was in the Sixty third Year of his Age, which is commonly called the Grand Climacteric, and hath been to many the Dying Year, and was so to his Father, he numbered the Days of it, from August 24. 1693. to August 24. 1694. when he finished it: And when he concluded it, he thus wrote in his Diary. This Day finisheth my commonly dying Year, which I have numbered the Days of; and should now apply my Heart more than ever to Heavenly Wisdom. He was much pleased with that Expression of our English Liturgy ⟨p. 195⟩in the Office of Burial, and frequently used it. In the midst of Life we are in Death.

When he was in the Sixty third Year of his Age, which is commonly called the Grand Climacterick, and hath been to many the Dying Year, and was so to his Father, he numbred the Days of it, from August 24. 1693. to August 24. 1694. when he finished it: And when he concluded it, he thus wrote in his Diary. This Day finisheth my commonly dying Year, which I have numbred the Days of; and should now apply my Heart more than ever to Heavenly Wisdom. He was much pleased with that Expression of our English Liturgy ⟨p. 195⟩in the Office of Burial, and frequently us'd it. In the midst of Life we are in Death.

The Infirmities of Age, when they grew upon him, did very little abate his vigour and liveliness in Preaching, but he seemed even to renew his Youth as the Eagles; as those that are Planted in the House of the Lord, who still bring forth Fruit in old Age; not so much to show that they are upright, as to show that the Lord is upright,