A26780:93
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.
Some little opposition was made to his Settlement at Worthenbury by Mr. Fog then Rector of Bangor, because he conceived it an Intrenchment upon his Right to Worthenbury. and thought it might prejudice his Recovering of it by Course of Law. I only mention this for the sake of the Note he hath upon it in his Diary, which is this, I do earnestly desire that the Judge may give Mr. Fog all reasonable Satisfaction, that there may be no appearance of wrong to him, or any other in this thing. And when Mr. Fog insisted upon it, that he would have Mr. Henry give it under his ⟨p. 35⟩Hand, that he desired the Consent of the said Mr. Fog to be Minister of Worthenbury; he yielded to do it for peace-sake, and from thence forward there was an intimate entire Friendship between Mr. Fog and him.
Some little opposition was made to his Settlement at Worthenbury by Mr. Fogg then Rector of Bangor, because he conceiv'd it an Intrenchment upon his Right to Worthenbury. and thought it might prejudice his Recovering of it by Course of Law. I only mention this for the sake of the Note he hath upon it in his Diary, which is this, I do earnestly desire that the Iudge may give Mr. Fogg all reasonable Satisfaction, that there may be no appearance of wrong to him, or any other in this thing. And when Mr. Fog insisted upon it, that he would have Mr. Henry give it under his ⟨p. 35⟩Hand, that he desired the Consent of the said Mr. Fogg to be Minister of Worthenbury; he yielded to do it for peace-sake, and from thence forward there was an intimate intire Friendship between Mr. Fogg and him.
Being thus settled at Worthenbury his next Care was touching Ordination to the Work of the Ministry, to which he would-see his Call very clear, before he Solemnly Devoted himself to it. And though afterwards in the Reflection (especially when he was Silenced) it was some trouble to him that he had so long deferred to be Ordained (and he would often, from the Consideration of that press those who intended the Ministry, not to put it off) yet as the times then were, there was something of a reason for it.