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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.
To one of his Sons in Law that was a little engaged •n building, he thus writes; Be sure to take God along with you in this, as in all other your Affairs; for except he build the House, they labour in vain that build it. Count upon troublesome O•crrences in it, and keep the Spirit quiet within: And l• nor God's Time nor Dues be entrenched upon, and then all will be well.
'Twas but a little before he died that he wrote thus to one of his Children; We rejoice in God's goodness to you, that your Distemper hath been a Rod shaken only, and not laid on. He is good, and doth good; and should we not love him, and rest in our love to him? He saith, he doth in his to us, and rejoiceth over us with singing, Zeph. 3. 17. And have not we much more cause? What loveliness in us? What not in him? I pray let me recommend him to your Love; love him, love him, with all the Powers of your Soul, and out of love to him please him. He is pleased with honest Endeavours to please him; though after all, in many things we come short, for we are not under the Law, but under Grace.
'Twas but a little before he died that he wrote thus to one of his Children; We rejoyce in God's goodness to you, that your Distemper hath been a Rod shaken only, and not laid on. He is good, and doth good; and should we not love him, and rest in our love to him? He saith, he doth in his to us, and rejoyceth over us with singing, Zeph. 3. 17. And have not we much more cause? What loveliness in us? What not in him? I pray let me recommend him to your Love; love him, love him, with all the Powers of your Soul, and out of love to him please him. He is pleas'd with honest Endeavours to please him; though after all, in many things we come short, for we are not under the Law, but under Grace.