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

Among the Mercies of God to him in his Youth (and he would say twere well if Parents would keep an Account of those for their Children, till they come to be capable of doing it for themselves, and then to set them upon the doing of it) he hath Recorded a remarkable Deliverance he had here at Westminster-School, which was this: It was Customary there among the studious Boys, for one or two or more to sit up the former part of the Night at Study, and when they went to Bed about Midnight to call others, and they others at two or three a Clock, as they desired. His Request was to be called at Twelve, and being awaked, desired his Candle might be lighted, which stuck to the Beds Head; but he dropped asleep again, and the Candle fell, and burnt part of the Bed and Bolster, ere he awaked; but through God's good Providence seasonable help came in, the Fire soon quenched, and he received no harm. This gave him occasion ⟨p. 14⟩long after to say, It is of the Lord's Mercies that we are not Consumed.

Among the Mercies of God to him in his Youth (and he would say twere well if Parents would keep an Account of those for their Children, till they come to be capable of doing it for themselves, and then to set them upon the doing of it) he hath Recorded a remarkable Deliverance he had here at Westminster-School, which was this: It was Customary there among the studious Boys, for one or two or more to sit up the former part of the Night at Study, and when they went to Bed about Midnight to call others, and they others at two or three a Clock, as they desired. His Request was to be call'd at Twelve, and being awaked, desired his Candle might be lighted, which stuck to the Beds Head; but he dropt asleep again, and the Candle fell, and burnt part of the Bed and Bolster, e're he awaked; but through God's good Providence seasonable help came in, the Fire soon quenched, and he received no harm. This gave him occasion ⟨p. 14⟩long after to say, It is of the Lord's Mercies that we are not Consumed.

When he was at Westminster-School he was employed by Dr. Busby, as some others of the most ingenious and industrious of his Scholars were, in their reading of the Greek Authors, to Collect, by his Direction, some Materials for that Excellent Greek Grammar, which the Doctor afterwards Published.