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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26780	An 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	Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1100A; ESTC R14627	175,639	290

Henry the Yearly Rent of One Hundred Pounds charged upon all his Messilages Lands and Tenements in the several Counties of Flint Denbigh and Chester to be paid Quarterly until such times as the said Philip Henry shall be promoted or preferred to some other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Preferment with Power of Distress in Case of Non-payment A Hundred a Year was more than Worthenbury Tithes were worth at that time and the manner of the Gift freed the maintenance from much of that Loss and Incumbrance which commonly attends the gathering of Tithe 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 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 Psal. 127. 1. Except the Lord build the House they Labour in vain that build it There never was Truth saith he more seasonable to any than this was to me It was a word upon the Wheels He hath Recorded it as his great Care that his Affections might be kept loose from it and that it might not incroach upon God's Interest in his Heart When it was finished he thus writes I do from my Heart bless God that no hurt or harm befel any of the Workmin in the Building of it Thus was his Maintenance settled at Worthenbury In the Year 1659. he was by a Writing of Judge Puleston's Collated Nominated and Presented to the Church of Worthenbury and the Powers that then were having so appointed he had an Approbation thereof from the Commissioners for Approbation of publick Preachers 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 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 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. Iohn 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 publickly Ordained Sixty three Ministers Mr. Henry was very desirous to have been Ordained at Worthenbury plebe praesence 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 o●…asioned the Delay so that he was not Ordained till Sept. 16. 1657. The way and manner of his Ordination was according to the known Directory of the Assembly of Divines and the common usage of the Presbyterians and yet he having left among his Papers a particular Account of that Solemnity and some of the Workings of his Soul towards God in i●… I hope it may be of some use both for Instruction and Quickning to Ministers and for the information of such as are perhaps wholly strangers to such a thing to give some account of te whole Transaction He made Addresses to the Presbytery in order to his Ordination Iul. 6. at Prees when he submitted to Trial and Enquiry was made in the first place concerning his Experience of the Work of Grace in his Heart in Answer to which he gave a reason of the Hope that was in him with Meekness and Fear that the Spirit of Grace had been dealing with him when he was young and he hoped had Discovered to him his need of Christ and had bow'd his Will in some Measure to close with him upon his own Terms c. His Skill in the Original Languages of the Scripture was then tried and he read and construed two Verses in the Hebrew Bible and two in the Greek Testament He was then Examined in Logick and natural Philosophy next in Divinity what Authors he had read and what Knowledge he had touching the Mediation of Christ c. and his Skill in the Scripture was tried by propounding to him a Difficult Text to give his Sense of a Case of Conscience was also put to him to be resolv●…d and Enquiry made into his Acquaintance with Church History Lastly a Question was given him to provide a Thesis upon against next Meeting which was this An Providentia Divina extendat se ad omnia 〈◊〉 Aff. On this Question he exhibited his Thesis Aug. 3. and defended it Several of the Ministers oppos'd and Mr. Porter moderated He then produced two Certificates which he left with the Register of the Class one from