A26780:504
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.
To another of them in the same Circumstance; he thus writes, Your last Letter speaks you in a good Frame, which rejoiced my Heart, that you were fixed, fixed waiting upon God; that your Faith was uppermost, above your Fears; that you could say, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let him do with me as seemeth good in his eyes. We are never fitter for a ⟨p. 240⟩Mercy, nor is it more likely to be a Mercy indeed, than when it is so with us; now the Lord keep it always in the Imagination of the Thoughts of your Heart. And he concludes, 'Forget not 1 Tom. 2. last.
To another of them in the same Circumstance; he thus writes, Your last Letter speaks you in a good Frame, which rejoyced my Heart, that you were fixed, fixed waiting upon God; that your Faith was uppermost, above your Fears; that you could say, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let him do with me as seemeth good in his eyes. We are never fitter for a ⟨p. 240⟩Mercy, nor is it more likely to be a Mercy indeed, than when it is so with us; now the Lord keep it always in the Imagination of the Thoughts of your Heart. And he concludes, 'Forget not 1 Tom. 2. last.
When one of his Daughters was safely delivered, in a Letter to another of them that was drawing near to that needful Hour, he observed, that when David said, Psal. 116. 12. What shall I render? He presently adds, v. 13. I will call upon the Name of the Lord. As if (saith he) calling upon the Name of the Lord for Mercy for you, were one way of rendering unto the Lord, for the great Benefit done to your Sister.
When one of his Daughters was safely delivered, in a Letter to another of them that was drawing near to that needful Hour, he observ'd, that when David said, Psal. 116. 12