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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
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His great Parts and Improvement notwithstanding his extraordinary Modesty and Humility had made him so well known in the University that at the following Act in July 1653. he was chosen out of all the Masters of that Year to be Junior of the Act, that is, to answer the Philosophy Questions in Vesperi is, which he did with very great applause, especially for the very witty and ingenious Oration which he made to the University upon that occasion: His questions were: 1 An licitum sit carnibus vesci? Aff. 2. An Institutio Academiarum sit utilis in Republicâ? Aff. 3. An Ingenium pendeat ab humoribus Corporis? Aff. At the Act in 1654. He was chosen Magister Replicans, and answered the Philosophy Questions in Comitiis with a like applause. His Questions then were, 1. An melius sit sperare quàm frui? Neg. 2. An Maxima Animi Delectatio sit agrave; sensibus? Neg. 3. An utile sit peregrinari? Aff.
His great Parts and Improvement notwithstanding his extraordinary Modesty and Humility had made him so well known in the University that at the following Act in Iuly 1653. he was chosen out of all the Masters of that Year to be Iunior of the Act, that is, to answer the Philosophy Questions in Vesperi is, which he did with very great applause, especially for the very witty and ingenious Oration which he made to the University upon that occasion: His questions were: 1 An licitum sit carnibus vesci? Aff. 2. An Institutio Academiarum sit utilis in Republicâ? Aff. 3. An Ingenium pendeat ab humoribus Corporis? Aff. At the Act in 1654. He was chosen Magister Replicans, and answer'd the Philosophy Questions in Comitiis with a like applause. His Questions then were, 1. An melius sit sperare quàm frui? Neg. 2. An Maxima Animi Delectatio sit agrave; sensibus? Neg. 3. An utile sit peregrinari? Aff.
Dr. Owen who was then Vice-Chancellor hath spoken with great commendation of these performances of Mr. Henry's to some in the University afterwards, who never knew him otherwise than by report; and I have heard a Worthy Divine (who was somewhat his Junior in the University, and there a perfect Stranger to him) say, how much he admired these Exercises of his, and loved him for them, and yet how much more he admired, when he afterwards became acquainted with him in the Country, that so Curious and Polite an Orator should become so Profitable and Powerful a Preacher, and so readily lay aside the enticing Words of Mans Wisdom which were so easy to him.