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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.
On occasion of affliction in their Families by the sickness or Death of Children, or otherwise, he always wrote some word in season.
In the Furnace again? (saith he) but a good Friend sits by, and it is only to take away more of the Dross. If less Fire would do, we should not have it so much and so often; O for Faith to trust the Refiner, and to refer all to his Will and Wisdom, and to wait the Issue—for I have been young, and now am old, but I never yet saw it in vain to seek God, and to hope in him.
At another time he thus writes, Tough and knotty Blocks must have more and more Wedges; our heavenly Father when he judgeth will overcome. We hear of the death of dear S. T. and chide ourselves for being so often pleased with his little pretty fashions lest we offended therein, by being too much so. No Rival must sit with him in his Throne, who deserves all our Love and Joy, and hath too little of it.
At another time he thus writes, Tough and knotty Blocks must have more and more Wedges; our heavenly Father when he judgeth will overcome. We hear of the death of dear S. T. and chide ourselves for being so often pleased with his little pretty fashions lest we offended therein, by being too much so. No Rival must sit with him in his Throne, who deserves all our Love and Ioy, and hath too little of it.