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

To the proper Studies of this place he now vigorously addressed himself; but still retaining a great Kindness for the Classic Authors, and the more polite Exercises he loved so well at Westminster-School.

To the proper Studies of this place he now vigorously address'd himself; but still retaining a great Kindness for the Classick Authors, and the more polite Exercises he lov'd so well at Westminster-School.

He was admitted Student of Christ-Church March 24. 1647/8. by Dr. Henry Hammond, that great Man, then Sub-Dean, who called him his God-Brother, the Earl of Pembroke being his Godfather also, and Prince Henry the other, who gave him his Name.

The Visitation of the University by the Parliament happened to be in the very next Month after. Oxford had been for a good while in the Hands of the Parliament, ⟨p. 18⟩and no Change made; but now the Earl of Pembroke, and several others thereunto appointed, came hither to settle things upon a new bottom. The Account Mr. Henry in his Papers gives of this Affair, is to this purpose. The sole Question which the Visitors proposed to each Person, high and low, in every College, that had any place of Profit, was this, Will you submit to the Power of the Parliament in this present Visitation? to which all were to give in their Answer in Writing, and accordingly were either displaced or continued: Some cheerfully complied, others absolutely refused, (among whom he would sometimes tell of one that was but of his standing, who gave in this bold Answer, I neither can nor will submit to the Power of the Parliament in this present Visitation, I say I cannot, I say I will not J. C.) others answered doubtfully, pleading Youth and Ignorance in such Matters. Mr. Henry's Answer was, I submit to the Power of the Parliament in the Present Visitation, as far as I may with a safe Conscience and without Perjury. His reason for the last Salvo, was because he had taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy a little before, at his Admission; which he was (according to the Character of the good Man, that he fears an Oath) very jealous of doing any thing to contradict or infringe; which hath made him sometimes signify some dislike of that Practise of Administering Oaths to such as were scarce past Children, who could hardly be supposed to take them. with Judgment, as Oaths should be taken. However this Answer of his satisfied; and by the Favour of the Earl of Pembroke he was continued in his Students place. But great Alterations were made in that as in other Colleges, very much (no question) to the hinderance and Discouragement of young Scholars who came thither to get Learning, not to Judge of the Rights