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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.
Immediately after his Son was Ordained to the Work of the Ministry at London, in the Year 1687. he thus wrote to him: Are you now a Minister of Jesus Christ? Hath he counted you Faithful, putting you into the Ministry? then be Faithful; out of love to him feed his Lambs: Make it your [Greek or Hebrew], as a workman that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of Truth. I hope what you Experienced of the presence of God with you in the Solemnity, hath left upon you a truly indelible Character, and such Impressions, as neither time, nor any thing else shall be able to wear out. Remember Psal. 71. 16. It is in the Eye of Sense, a bad time to set out in; but in Sowing and Reaping, Clouds ⟨p. 233⟩and Wind must not be heeded. The Work is both Comfortable and Honourable, and the Reward rich and sure; and if God be pleased to give Opportunity and a Heart, though there may be Trouble attending it, 'twill be easily born. If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. I am, and shall be, according to my Duty and Promise, earnest at the Throne of Grace, on your behalf, that the Lord will pour out upon you of his Holy Spirit, that what he calls you to, he would fit you for; especially that he would take you off your own bottom, and lay you low in the Sense of your own Unworthiness, Inability and Insufficiency, that you may say with the Evangelical Prophet; Woe is me, I am undone! And with Jeremiah, I am a Child; and with Paul, I am nothing; where this is not, the main thing is wanting; for God resists the Proud, but gives Grace to the Humble. Now the Lord give you that Grace to be Humble; and then, according to his Promise, he will make you rich in every other Grace.
Immediately after his Son was Ordained to the Work of the Ministry at London, in the Year 1687. he thus wrote to him: Are you now a Minister of Jesus Christ? Hath he counted you Faithful, putting you into the Ministry? then be Faithful; out of love to him feed his Lambs: Make it your 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as a workman that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of Truth. I hope what you Experienced of the presence of God with you in the Solemnity, hath left upon you a truly indelible Character, and such Impressions, as neither time, nor any thing else shall be able to wear out. Remember