A26780:500
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.
I shall go to him, saith David, when his little Son was gone before. It is yet but a little while ere all the things of Time shall be swallowed up in Eternity. And the matter is not great, whether we or ours die first, whilst we are all dying; in the midst of Life we are in Death: What manner of persons then ought we to be? Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, be your support under, and do you good by this Dispensation, and give you a Name better than that of Sons and Daughters. We are daily mindful of you at the Throne of Grace, in our poor measure, and dearly recommended to you, &c.
I shall go to him, saith David, when his little Son was gone before. It is yet but a little while e're all the things of Time shall be swallowed up in Eternity. And the matter is not great, whether we or ours die first, whilst we are all dying; in the midst of Life we are in Death: What manner of persons then ought we to be? Now our Lord Iesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, be your support under, and do you good by this Dispensation, and give you a Name better than that of Sons and Daughters. We are daily mindful of you at the Throne of Grace, in our poor measure, and dearly recommended to you, &c.
We shall next gather up some Passages out of his Letters to his Children, after they were married and gone from him.
To one of his Daughters with Child of her first Child, he thus writes, You have now one kind of Burden more than ever you had before to cast upon God, and if you do so, he will sustain you, according to his Promise.
To one of his Daughters with Child of her first Child, he thus writes, You have now one kind of Burthen more than ever you had before to cast upon God, and if you do so, he will sustain you, according to his Promise.