A26780:524
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.
2. You must rightly understand and consider who it is, with whom you have to do in Prayer, for your encouragement to come to him, though in the midst of many Infirmities and Imperfections. He is your Father, your loving, tender hearted Father, who knows your Frame, and remembers you are but dust; who is not extreme to mark what we do amiss, in manner and expression, where the Heart is upright with him. You may judge a little concerning his Love, by the Disposition that is in you towards your Children, when they come to ask things needful of you: And believe him to be infinitely more merciful and compassionate, than the most merciful and compassionate of Fathers and Mothers are or can be: especially remembering that we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous, who is the great High Priest of our Profession, and whom he heareth always.
2. You must rightly understand and consider who it is, with whom you have to do in Prayer, for your incouragement to come to him, though in the midst of many Infirmities and Imperfections. He is your Father, your loving, tender hearted Father, who knows your Frame, and remembers you are but dust; who is not extream to mark what we do amiss, in manner and expression, where the Heart is upright with him. You may judge a little concerning his Love, by the Disposition that is in you towards your Children, when they come to ask things needful of you: And believe him to be infinitely more merciful and compassionate, than the most merciful and compassionate of Fathers and Mothers are or can be: especially remembring that we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous, who is the great High Priest of our Profession, and whom he heareth always.
4. You must pray that you may pray; beg of God the Father of Lights, from whom every good and perfect Gift comes, to bestow this Gift upon you. We read, Luke 11. 1. that one of the Disciples came to Jesus Christ upon this Errand, Lord teach us to pray, and he had his Request granted presently. Go you to him on the same Errand. You may plead the Relation of a Child, from that Scripture,