A26780:446
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.
Another very worthy Conformist, formerly of his Acquaintance, but now living at a great distance, having occasion to mention him in a Letter to a Friend, calls him The Great, Good. and now Glorious Mr. Henry, whose Memory (saith he) shall ever be precious, and even sacred to me.
Such as these were the Honourable Testimonies which all that knew him, and knew how to value true Excellency attended him with. It is part of the Recompense of Charity and Moderation in this World, that it obtains a good Report of all Men. The Kingdom of God (saith the Blessed Apostle, Rom. 14. 17, 18.) is not meat and drink (which were then the matters of doubtful disputation) but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost; and he that in these things serveth Christ, is not only acceptable to God, but approved of men; as on the contrary, they that judge will be judged, and with what measure we meet, it will be measured to us again. And this is the Excellency of a Good Name, that it is out of the reach of Death, and is not Buried in the Grave, but rather grows up from it. It is not for nothing that Solomon hath joined this good Name, which is better than precious Ointment, with the day of ones death, which upon that account is better than the day of ones birth, that it completes the Character of those that finish their Course well, and are faithful unto Death; whereas a Great Name, like the Names of the great Ones of the Earth is often withered and blemished ⟨p. 216⟩by Death. We read of those that bear their shame when they go down to the Pit, though they were the terror of the mighty in the Land of the Living, Ezek. 32. 35.
Such as these were the Honourable Testimonies which all that knew him, and knew how to value true Excellency attended him with. It is part of the Recompence of Charity and Moderation in this World, that it obtains a good Report of all Men. The Kingdom of God (saith the Blessed Apostle, Rom. 14. 17, 18