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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
'Twas a stock of Scripture Knowledge that he set up with, and with that he traded to good advantage. Tho he was so great a Master in the eloquence of Cicero, yet he preferred far before it, that of Apollos, who was an eloquent Man, and mighty in the Scriptures, Act. 18. 24.
'Twas a stock of Scripture Knowledge that he set up with, and with that he traded to good advantage. Tho he was so great a Master in the eloquence of Cicero, yet he prefer'd far before it, that of Apollos, who was an eloquent Man, and mighty in the Scriptures, Act. 18. 24.
He bid very fair at that time for University preferment, such was the Reputation he had got at the late Act, and such his Interest in Dr. Owen: but the Salvation of Souls was that which his heart was upon, to which he post-poned all his other Interests.
In September 1653, he came down to Emeral, from whence a Messenger was sent on purpose to Oxford to conduct him thither. Long after when it had pleased God to settle him in that Country, and to build him up into a Family, he would often reflect upon his coming into it first, what a Stranger he then was, and how ⟨p. 30⟩far it was from his thoughts ever to have made his home in those parts, and passing over the Brook that parts between Flint-shire and Shrop-shire would sometimes very affectionately use that word of Jacob's, With my Staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
In September 1653, he came down to Emeral, from whence a Messenger was sent on purpose to Oxford to conduct him thither. Long after when it had pleased God to settle him in that Country, and to build him up into a Family, he would often reflect upon his coming into it first, what a Stranger he then was, and how