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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.
He still continued for some Years in Emeral Family, where he laid out himself very much for the Spiritual good of the Family, even of the meanest of the Servants, by Catechizing, repeating the Sermons, and Personal Instruction, and he had very much Comfort in the Countenance and Conversation of the Judge and his Lady. Yet he complains sometimes in his Diary of the Snares, and Temptations that he found in his way there, especially because some of the Branches of the Family who did not Patrizare were uneasy at his being there, which made him willing to remove to a House of his own, which when Judge Puleston perceived, in the Year 1657. out of his abundant and continued kindness to him, he did at his own proper Cost and Charges build him […] very handsome ⟨p. 34⟩House in Worthenbury, and settled it upon him by a Lease, bearing Date March. 6. 1657. for Threescore Years, if he should so long continue Minister at Worthenbury, and not accept of better Preferment.
He still continued for some Years in Emeral Family, where he laid out himself very much for the Spiritual good of the Family, even of the meanest of the Servants, by Catechizing, repeating the Sermons, and Personal Instruction, and he had very much Comfort in the Countenance and Conversation of the Judge and his Lady. Yet he complains sometimes in his Diary of the Snares, and Temptations that he found in his way there, especially because some of the Branches of the Family who did not Patrizare were uneasie at his being there, which made him willing to remove to a House of his own, which when Judge Puleston perceived, in the Year 1657. out of his abundant and continued kindness to him, he did at his own proper Cost and Charges build him 〈…〉 very handsome ⟨p. 34⟩House in Worthenbury, and settled it upon him by a Lease, bearing Date March. 6. 1657. for Threescore Years, if he should so long continue Minister at Worthenbury, and not accept of better Preferment.
He hath Noted in his Diary, that the very Day that the Workmen began the Building of that House, Mr. Mainwaring of Malpas, preached the Lecture at Bangor, from