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

September 21. 1695. I heard of the Death of Two holy, aged Bartholomew Witnesses. Mr. Richard Mayo of London, and Mr. Henry Newcome of Manchester, Psal. 12. 1.

Mr. Edward Lawrence of London, my dear and worthy Friend, and a faithful Minister and Witness of the Lord Jesus, died November—1695. about the Seventieth Year of his Age; born at Moston in Shropshire, of Magdalen College in Cambridge, turned out from Baschurch in Shropshire, by the Act of Uniformity, in 1662. was driven from Whitchurch by the violent Persecution of the Conventicle Act, in 1670. when he removed to London, and there spent the rest of his Days.

Mr. Edward Lawrence of London, my dear and worthy Friend, and a faithful Minister and Witness of the Lord Jesus, died November—1695. about the Seventieth Year of his Age; born at Moston in Shropshire, of Magdalen College in Cambridge, turned out from Baschurch in Shropshire, by the Act of Uniformity, in 1662. was driven from Whitchurch by the violent Persecution of the Convenricle Act, in 1670. when he removed to London, and there spent the rest of his Days.

He had many Children, but great Affliction in some of them, which gave occasion to his Book, Entitled, Parents Groans over their wicked Children. [It is a very high but just Character, which Mr. Vincent hath given of him in his Sermon at his Funeral; of which, let me take leave to add some few Instances that occur to us, which may be instructive, besides those which we have already mentioned occasionally. At his Meals, he would often speak of using God's Creatures as his Witnesses that he is good; and we cannot conceive how much good ⟨p. 268⟩our God doth every moment. An Expression of his great regard to Justice, was that common Caution he gave his Children, Tremble to borrow Two-pence; and of his Meekness and Tenderness this, Make no Man angry nor sad. He often said, I adore the Wisdom of God, that he hath not seen meet to trust me with Riches. When he saw little Children playing in the Streets, he would often lift up his Heart in an ejaculatory Prayer to God for them, calling them the Seed of the next Generation. When his Friend chose to Ride the back-way into Town, he pleasantly checked him, telling him, that his Heart had been often refreshed, when he hath looked out at the Window, and seen a good Man go along the Streets. He used to say, That Cromwell did more real Prejudice to Religion by his Hypocrisy, than King Charles the Second did, that never pretended to it. As also, that he feared the Sins of the Land more than the French.