A26780:94
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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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.
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 Ordain'd (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.
The nearest acting Class of Presbyters, was in the Hundred of Bradford. North in Shropshire, wherein Mr. Porter of Whitchurch was the leading Man, of whom Mr. Baxter gives so high a Character in his Life, Part 3. Pag. 94, and who was one of those whom he recommended to the Lord Chancellor, as fit to be made a Bishop Part 2. p. 283. This Class was Constituted by Ordinance of Parliament, in April 1647. the Members of it then, were the aforesaid Mr. Porter, Mr. Boughy of Hodnet, Mr. Hougton of Prees, Mr. Parsons of Wem, and Mr. John Ruby by, and afterwards Mr. Malden of Newport, Mr. Binney of Ightfield, and Mr. Steel of Hanmer, (though in Flintshire) were taken in to them, and acted with them. This Class in Twelve Years time publicly Ordained Sixty three Ministers. Mr. Henry was very desirous to have been Ordained at Worthenbury, plebe presence, which he thought most agreeable to the Intention, but the Ministers were not willing to set such a Precedent: However that was one thing which occasioned ⟨p. 36⟩the Delay, so that he was not Ordained till Sept. 16. 1657.