An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the…

Though he was Chosen to the University in May, yet being then young, under Sixteen, and in love with his School-Learning, he made no great haste thither. 'Twas in December following, 1647. that he removed to Oxford. Some merciful Providences in his Journey (he being a young Traveller) affected him much, and he used to speak of them, with a sense of God's Goodness to him in them, according to the Impressions then made by them; and he hath Recorded them with this thankful Note, That there may be a great Mercy in a small Matter; as the care that was taken of him by Strangers, when he Fainted and was Sick in his Inn the first Night, and his casual Meeting with Mr. Annesly, Son to the Viscount Valentia (who was chosen from Westminster-School, at the same time that he was) when his other Company going another way, had left him alone, and utterly at a loss what to do. Thus the sensible remembrance of old Mercies may ⟨p. 17⟩answer the intention of new ones, which is to engage our Obedience to God, and to encourage our Dependence on him.

THough he was Chosen to the University in May, yet being then young, under Sixteen, and in love with his School-Learning, he made no great haste thither. 'Twas in December following, 1647. that he removed to Oxford. Some merciful Providences in his Journey (he being a young Traveller) affected him much, and he us'd to speak of them, with a sense of God's Goodness to him in them, according to the Impressions then made by them; and he hath Recorded them with this thankful Note, That there may be a great Mercy in a small Matter; as the care that was taken of him by Strangers, when he Fainted and was Sick in his Inn the first Night, and his casual Meeting with Mr. Annesly, Son to the Viscount Valentia (who was chosen from Westminster-School, at the same time that he was) when his other Company going another way, had left him alone, and utterly at a loss what to do. Thus the sensible remembrance of old Mercies may