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

Mr. Robert Fog, my old dear Friend, was buried at Acton near Nantwich, April 21. 1676. he dyed in a good old Age, about Eighty. He was Minister of Bangor in Flintshire, till after the King came in, and thence forward to his Death, was a poor silent Nonconformist, but of a bold and zealous Spirit, giving good Counsel to those about him. A little before he dyed, he had this weighty saying among others, Assure your selves the Spirit of God will be underling to no Sin.

Mr. Robert Fogg, my old dear Friend, was buried at Acton near Nantwich, April 21. 1676. he dyed in a good old Age, about Eighty. He was Minister of Bangor in Flintshire, till after the King came in, and thence forward to his Death, was a poor silent Nonconformist, but of a bold and zealous Spirit, giving good Counsel to those about him. A little before he dyed, he had this weighty saying among others, Assure your selves the Spirit of God will be underling to no Sin.

[Mr. Andrew Parsons, sometimes Minister of Wem, dyed at London, October 1. 1684. He was Born in Devonshire, and was Minister there some Years before the War; being driven thence to London, he became well known to Mr. Pym. who sent him down to Wem, when that Town was Garrisoned for the Parliament; there he continued in the Exercise of his Ministry, ⟨p. 258⟩till the Year 1660. He was an active, friendly, generous Man, and a moving, affecting Preacher. Mr. Baxter in his Life, Part 3. Page 94. commends him for a moderate Man, and speaks of his being in trouble, for seditious words Sworn against him, which were these: Preaching from 2 Tim. 3. 13. he said, The Devil was like a King that courted the Soul, and spoke fair till he was gotten into the Throne, and then played pranks. The Witnesses deposed contrary to the Coherence of his Discourse, that he said the King was like the Devil. He was tried at Shrewsbury before my Lord Newport, Mr. Serjeant Turner and others, May 28. 1662. It was also charged upon him, that he had said, there was more Sin committed now in England in a Month, than was heretofore in seven Years: And that there had been more and better Preaching in England for Twenty Years past, then was ever since the Apostles days. He had Council assigned him, who pleaded that the time limited by the Stature, in which he was Indited was Expired: The Court yielded it was so, allowing Twenty eight Days to a Month; but they would understand it of Thirty Days to a Month; so he was found Guilty, and Fined Two hundred Pound; and ordered to be Imprisoned till it should be paid.