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

But it is time we return to Westminster-School, where having begun to learn Christ we left him in the Successful pursuit of other Learning, under the Eye and Care of that great Master Dr. Busby; who, on the Account of his Pregnancy and Diligence took a particular kindness to him, called him his Child, and would sometimes tell him he should be his Heir; and there was no Love lost betwixt them. Dr. Busby was noted for a very severe School master, especially in the beginning of his time. But Mr. Henry would say sometimes, that as in so great a School there was need of a strict Discipline, so for his own part, of the Four Years he was in the School, he never felt the weight of his Hand but once, and then (saith he in some of the Remarks ⟨p. 13⟩of his Youth which he wrote long after) I deserved it: For being Monitor of the Chamber, and according to the Duty of his Place, being sent out to seek one that played Truant; he found him out where he had hid himself, and at his earnest Request promised to make an excuse for him, and to say, he could not find him, which (saith he in a Penitential Reflection upon it afterwards) I wickedly did. Next Morning the Truant coming under Examination, and being asked whether he saw the Monitor, said, yes, he did, at which Dr. Busby was much surprised, and turned his Eye upon the Monitor, with this word, [Greek or Hebrew]; (What thou my Son) and gave him Correction, and appointed him to make a penitential Copy of Latin Verses, which when he brought he gave him Six Pence, and received him into his Favour again.

But it is time we return to Westminster-School, where having begun to learn Christ we left him in the Successful pursuit of other Learning, under the Eye and Care of that great Master Dr. Busby; who, on the Account of his Pregnancy and Diligence took a particular kindness to him, call'd him his Child, and would sometimes tell him he should be his Heir; and there was no Love lost betwixt them. Dr. Busby was noted for a very severe School master, especially in the beginning of his time. But Mr. Henry would say sometimes, that as in so great a School there was need of a strict Discipline, so for his own part, of the Four Years he was in the School, he never felt the weight of his Hand but once, and then (saith he in some of the Remarks ⟨p. 13⟩of his Youth which he wrote long after) I deserv'd it: For being Monitor of the Chamber, and according to the Duty of his Place, being sent out to seek one that play'd Truant; he found him out where he had hid himself, and at his earnest Request promised to make an excuse for him, and to say, he could not find him, which (saith he in a Penitential Reflexion upon it afterwards) I wickedly did. Next Morning the Truant coming under Examination, and being ask'd whether he saw the Monitor, said, yes, he did, at which Dr. Busby was much surprized, and turned his Eye upon the Monitor, with this word, ; (What thou my Son) and gave him Correction, and appointed him to make a penitential Copy of Latin Verses, which when he brought he gave him Six Pence, and receiv'd him into his Favour again.