Section 9

Section 9

A little before he died, he said,—he scarce knew now what subject to choose that he had not preached upon already.*

APPENDIX, No. XXI.

Truth, he would remark, is a jewel of inestimable value; and we should prize it accordingly. We must buy it, and not sell it, Proverbs xxiii. 23. Hold it fast, and not let it go, 2 Timothy i. 13. Abide in it, and not fall from it, 2 John 9. 2 Peter iii. 17. And, as a mean of all the rest, we must love it, Zechariah viii. 19. 2 Thessalonians ii. 10. We must love it more than thontandt of gold tmd silvery Psalm cxix. 127.

Errors, on the other hand, are sins; sins, because transgressions of the divine law. Do not err, because errors are works of the flesh, Galatians v. 20;

Life. Orig. MS. wi npra, t P. Henry. Orig. MS. u " Nee verb qmemijtiam tenvm audivi eMUmn, qwo loco tkotattnim o6nM-let. Cicero de Senect p. 155. Op. torn. 8. Hi npru. and because they are invasions upon God's rale and government. He has authority over our understanding ; we owe the same subjection to his truths as to his commands. Errors in judgment are the causes of sins in practice, Matthew vi. 23. Epistle of Jude. It is said that fishes first putrefy in the head ;~so do many.

Error is very bewitching, Galatians iii. 1. It works like poison, silently and insensibly; it drinks up the good spirits, the sap and savour of a man. It is infecting, like the leprosy. A leper in the head was utterly unclean, Leviticus xiii. 44. It is destroying ; a shot, or cut, in the head, will as surely kill as in the heart. See Psalm, xcv. 10, 11.

Lay a good foundation in being well acquainted with the principles of the doctrine of Christ. Take heed of pride and conceitedness. The low shrubs in the valley escape the storm when the tall cedars on the bill-tops are up-rooted; weather-cocks, set high, turn. Seek grace, and special growth in it, Hebrews xiii. 9. 2 Peter iii. 17,18. Take heed of living in any known sin, or indulging any secret lust against light Avoid needless familiarity with false prophets, 2 John 10, 11. Romans xvi. 17, 18. 1 Timothy vi. 6. Give yourselves to the word and prayer, Acts vi. 4.'

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The cultivation of the memory, with a view to religions improvement, Mr. Henry both felt, and urged, as being of special importance. Of this his manuscripts furnish the following illustration.

In reply to the inquiry,—What means are we to use, that we may remember spiritual things better, to carry away with us more of what we hear, and to keep it more faithfully ? He says :— Get the heait filled with love to the things of God. I never yet saw a covetous old man forget where his money lay.°] The reason is, his heart is upon it; see Psalm cxix. 16. Labour to see the worth and excellency of heavenly truths ; so many truths, so many jewels. Jewels we lay up. See your own concern in them, Deuteronomy xxxii. 46, 47; get a clear and distinct apprehension, Psalm cvi. 7; and the more distinct the better. A man may carry a great deal more upon his back, if the things be well-ordered and packed up,^ than if they lie loose and confused. So it is with the memory. Hence catechisms are exceedingly useful. Submit to the power of the word; the sermon that doth us most good we shall best remember. Psalm cxix. 93.

" One will carrie twice more weight trussed and packed up in bundles, than when it lies untowardly flapping and hanging about his shoulders. Tblogs orderly fiurdled up, under beads, are most ^ portable." Fuller's Holy State, p. 164. ut evpra.

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Attention is a special help, Hebrews ii. 1. It is said the people hanged on Christ while he was preaching to them, Luke xix. 48. See Lake viii. 18.

Meditation,'' Lake ii. 19. A garment that is doable-dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the colonr a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation. What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing,—it hides the word.

Conference. See this and the former in one flcriptare. Psalm Ixxvii. 11, 12. As an orange, by being tossed to and fro, from hand to hand, leaves a scent behind it,—so doth truth.

Prayer. We should tarn sermons into petitions. Pray for the Spirit There is great encouragement from promises, Luke xi. 13.

The memory is a lazy faculty, unless rubbed up, 2 Peter i. 12,13. Exercise your memories. The way to have limbs is to use them.

Consider the great advantage we shall get by it; by the help of a faithful, sanctified memory, truths may do us good long after we have heard them. See John x. 41, 42. Psalm cxix. 62. Lamentations iii. 21.

But there are some things which God would have us especially to remember. In general, every part of his revealed will. Particularly, our Creator, Ecclesiastes xii. 1; To keep holy the $ahhiUh-day, Exodus XX. 8.

Also, our latter end, Deuteronomy xxxii. 29. Shortly, we must put off this our tabernacle; the thing itself is certain, the time uncertain. Could I be contented death should find me in my present state, in this place, company, so employed? Forgetfulness of our latter end makes us careless and secure, Isaiah xlvii. 7. Lamentations i. 9.

The days of darkness, Ecclesiastes xi. 8; not only that we must die, but also what comes after death; our state after death is to be an abiding state. If we die in sin, eternal darkness follows. Think of this. What a misery were it to be shut up in a dungeon, though in ease, for a few years; much greater, to be shut up in hell under chains of darkness,* and flames of brimstone,^ and that for ever! We have little cause to envy wicked men those merry days which they now enjoy, for they are but few; the days of darkness, which are coming, are like to be many.

Those who are in bonds, Hebrews xiii. 3; our poor, distressed, afflicted brethren; those, especially, who suffer for righteousness* sake. When we are at meat, we should think of those who are hungry, for whom nothing is provided; when at ease in our V Meditation keeps out Satan. It increases knowledge. Psalm ciiz. 99. 1 Timothy Iv. I&. It inflames love, Psalm xzxix. a It wofks paticfice. Psalm cxix. 83; IxxTiL 6. It promotes prayer, Psslm IzliL 5, & It efidesces sincerity. See Proferbs xxiii. 7. PHeofy Orig.llS. beds, of those who are sick, and in pain. Such a thought may conduce much to seriousness, sobriety, and thankfulness. Their condition might have been ours, and ours theirs. They are our fellow members. See Psalm cxxxvii. 6, 6. We must remember them so as to relieve them, when we have opportunity, Hebrews xiii. 16; which God will remember, Acts X. 31.

Our past sins, Deuteronomy ix. 7. The sins of our youth, of our unregenerate state; not barely to talk of them, much less to please ourselves in the remembrance of them, but for holy, spiritual ends and purposes; as to mourn over them that they may be pardoned, if that be not yet the case. If they are forgiven, the remembrance of them may be useful to keep us humble and low in our own eyes, 1 Corinthians xv. 9. Ezekiel xvi. 63; to provoke thankfulness, 1 Timothy i. 12, &c.; to quicken us in our obedience. See 1 Peter iv. 2, 3.

The mercies we have received. Psalm cii. 2. Deuteronomy xxxii. 6, 7; though long since. Herein the people of God have been very careful; sometimes compiling long songs of remembrance. Exodus XV. Judges v.; sometimes setting up monuments of remembrance. Exodus xvii. 16. 1 Samuel vii. 12; sometimes imposing names of remembrance. Genesis xli. 51, 62. Exodus xviii. 3, 4.

There is good reason why it should be so; for God remembers our kindness towards him, Jeremiah ii^^.

The judgments of the Lord. Towards ourselves, Lamentations, iii. 19, 20. Thus and thus the Lord chastened me, and my sin was the cause. Shall I then continue in sin ? Towards others, Luke xvii. 32. so as to be warned.

The words of the Lord Jesus, and of those whom he hath sent. Acts xx. 36. Jude, verse 17.

What are those special things which God would have us to forget ? Injuries done to us, Romans xii. 19,20; our own people, and our father's house. Psalm xlv. 10; i, e, the persons of our nearest, dearest relations, when they seek to keep us from Christ, Deuteronomy xxxiii. 9; the customs, fashions, usages, of those with whom we conversed in our ignorance, ^~those things which are behind, Philippians iii. 13.'

APPENDIX, No. XXIII.

The following specimen of Mr. Henry's paternal counsel will not, it is presumed, be unacceptable. s 3 Peter ii. 4.

7 Revelations zxi. a See Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Works, v. & p. 517. «/ ntpra. I P. Henry. Orig. MS.

APPENDIX, No. XXIII.

Advice to the Rey. Matthew Henry, and Mrs. Henry, newly married, 1687.

Dear pair, whom God hath now of two made one.

Suffer a father's exhortation.

In the first place see, that with joint endeavour, You set yourselves to serve the Lord together.

You are yok'd to work, but for Work, wages write.

His yoke is easy, and his burthen light

Love one another, pray oft together, and see

You never both together ang be.*

If one speak fire; t'other with water ** come; Is one provok'd ? be t'other soft or dumb.'

Walk low, but aim high, spotless be your life, You are a minister, and a minister's wife.

Therefore as beacons, set upon a hill.

To angels and to men a spectacle.

Your slips will falU be call'd, your falls, each one

Will be a blemish to religion.

Do good to all, be affable and meek.

Your converse must be preaching all the week.

Your garb and dress must not be vain and gay; Reckon good works your richest, best array.

Your house must be a Bethel, and your door

Always stand open to relieve the poor.

Call your estate God's, not your own, engve

Holiness to the Lord on all you have.

Count upon suffering, or you count amiss, Sufficient to each day its evil is; All are bom once to trouble, but saints twice, And, as experience shows, ministers thrice.

But if you suffer with and for your Lord, You'll reign with him according to his word.**

On the marriage of Mrs. Savage, March 28, 1687, he founded an address, on Genesis ii. 22. Aitd hrought her unto the man,*

Weddings are likely, he observed, to be comfortable, when God brings the married couple to each other. All who come together, do so by his common providence. A sparrow doth not fall to the ground without him. But there is a special providence to be owned, when people marry in the Lord, That a marriage may be in the Lord, it is necessary that the proceedings be according to rule.—In respect of parties, they must not be too near in relation, nor too far off in age, quality, and profession. The more suitableness, the more likely is it that they were II IT an oOnce be given by one, it must not be taken by the other • Tor if both be angry together, the fire will be the greater. Shute't Sarah and Hagar. p. 85. fol. 1649. b " A good man, being vehement with the' Reverend and fiuth. 'ftill servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Richard Greenham,* he said,— * You are Are, and I will be water.*" Greenham's Works, p. 742. minpn.

See Discourse concerning Meekness, poii. The Supplement brought together by God. Solomon missed It in marrying strange wives, and it was bis ruin. Sons of God should not match with the daughters of men. Be not unequally yoked. There should be free consent of both parties, and parents also. Parents are not to infringe children's right, by forcing them, nor children theirs, by disposing of themselves. It should be managed as an ordinance of God, eaneti-fied by the word of God and prayer.

What God brings, he will bless to us, and what he blesses, must needs be comfortable. When God blows upon any thing, it never prospers. Psalm cxxvii. 1,'

At Mrs. Hulton's marriage, he selected as a topic for advice, Ephesians v. 24, 25. Therefore at the church is subject unto Christ, ^c. And thus pleasantly remarked;—I am loth to invert the apostle's method and order, and, therefore, shall keep to that Though the husband be the superior, and have the pre-*eminence in other things, he must not be offended, if his wife go before him learliing her duty. The church (that is, of the first-bom, considered as such, all the true saints in the world) is subject to Christ He is owned by them as their Lord and Ruler, both in word and deed. They have learned to deny their own wills, whereinsoever they come in competition with his, both as to what they must have, and as to what they must do. Now just thus, in like manner, are wives to be subject to their own husbands. It is called re>*erence, 1 Peter iii. Their speech is to be accordingly, 1 Peter iii. 6, 6. They are to be obedient to their lawful commands and appointments. I am unwilling to call them eomnumds, unless in a soft sense, 1 Peter iii. 6. They are to be patient under their rebukes; be never both angry together, 1 Peter iii. 4, 5. Thus God will have it; your place requires it, 1 Timothy ii. 12,13, 14. Gen. iii. 16. You will have most comfort when it is so. Observe one caution,—it must be tit the Lord, not absolutely and universally without exception, but, —in the Lord.

Husbands must learn to love their wives, by Christ's love to his church, that was, a sincere, upright, unfeigned love; a special, singular, superlative love; a permanent, abiding, and fruitful love. The husband should show his affection to his wife, by dwelling with her, by bearing her infirmities, by going in and out before her, by guiding her way, and providing all things that are fit for her.s to the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, ut npra. p. 997. Sermon xvi. d From a copy, in the hand-writing or Mrs. Savage.

Dear fiaither preached at family prayer that night, from that scripture in Genesis,— oimI ^brmigkt her to tht mm. Blrs. Savsge. Diary, Orig. MS.

f From Mrs. Savage's MS.

f P. Henry. Orig. MS.

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APPENDIX, No. XXIV.

The following memoranda respecting the duties of tjie aged,** drawn up by Mr. Henry, in his latter days, will serve, still further, to illostrate his views in the nearer prospect of eternity.

God expects old persons to be very penitent for past sin. Repentance is unravelling our ill-spun thread;* going back our missed way,—and this, when old, should be our special work,—our repenting work is almost done. Some are never merrier than when telling stories of their youthful extravagances. But this must not be,''—it is to act them over again. Never think nor speak of them, without a tear, or a sigh, and that towards God; sec Psalm XXV. 7. As you should never think of a friend without a praying thought, so you should never think of sin without repenting. And this should extend to present sins also. The pump of repentance must be kept going continually. It is a rare sight to see old people melt in tears for sin.

The aged should be strong in faith, giving glory to God. Abraham was so when he was one hundred yean old, Romans iv. Zechariah believed not the angel's message, and he was struck dumb, Luke i.

The whole word of God, particularly concerning Christ, the Saviour, is to be believed, and by old people especially. Though others have as many promises, yet they have more experiences. It aggravated Zechariah's unbelief, to have had the instance of Abraham, who had a son when old, before him. Be exhorted then, by faith, to close with the Lord Jesus as yours, though with a trembling hand. Close with him for pardon, peace, acceptation. Live by faith in all things, setting the word before you; k See *' A DtocoQTM concerning Old Age, by Richard Steele, IL A. 1668.'* i How wilt thou untwist the fgrmer web, which thoa hast been 10 long a weavingt Dr. Manton. Works, vol. 2 p. 76. fol. 1684. k See the Worlcs of Bisnop Taylor, •/ nrpra, v. 8. p. M5.

1 Tboogh your aflbctions are not only upon earthly things, yet are they not principally sot This appears, when we af Tect earthly things in the first place. (The rule our Saviour gives, is to seek /rrf tkt kiufiem of God, and to trust him for other thing8,)~when we affect earthly things for their 0¥m aakes, and not in subordi-aatioD to m hiffher end. It is only right, when we find the comforts which God hath given us, excitements to obedience.—When heavenly things must give way to earthly.—When we can be content to forfeit m good conscience, that we may gratify our ailfcctioaa towards earthly things. Herod affected John the Baptist, and beard him gladly. But Herodias must be gra Ufled.

It may be you can say,—" 1 bless God, I am in Christ;—I have GlKMen him.-earthly things shall not keep me from him.** Be it •o. But if thy affections are towards earthly things, thou may est, nevertbelesB, wrong thy aoul. You will be exposed to a multitude of temptations and snares, 1 Timothy vi. 9. A man» whose aflctionsare upon ikiuga abooo, is like a bird flying in the air; whatever gins are laid, she is out of danger. It is the earth that is the deviVs walk. Job i. 7. Here he lays his snares. Many a good maa bath oict with temptations to pride, security, carnal confidence: wbldi, if his heart had been in heaven, he would have escaped, Ik xix. 6. 2 Kings xx. la—It will exceedingly eyeing unseen things. Be filled with joy in believing, and be not doubting and disquieted.

They should also be dead to the world.' All its riches, honours, and pleasures, are the vainest vanity. Now to be dead to them, is to be weaned from them, to see in them no such beauty, excellency, or desirableness, as most persons think there is; and to carry it accordingly; see 2 Samuel xiii. 19—35. It is commonly said, that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may he felt, of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! and not yet convinced? What! almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay ?" Thinktof the time of day. It is almost night: even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? Thy body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards. Remember,—covetousness is idolatry. Set ifotir affections on things above.

God expects them to be very meek, and gentle, and patient. Old people are apt to be hasty and angry. But they should put on meekness. Sometimes distempers and infirmities are a cause of fro-wardness. Old age is often attended with deafness, blindness, lameness; but to quarrel with these, is to quarrel with God. They are the fruits of sin. Sometimes the disappointments and disasters which happen in the estate, the family, the relations, children, or perhaps children's children, occasion fret-fulness. Remember in all these things to acknowledge God; Psalm xxxix. 9. Lamentations iii. 90. Only by. pride comes frowardness. Old people are apt to think themselves wise, whether they are so or not, and to despise the young. The cure for this is hinder thy communion with God. Earthly things are prdlcial to our fellowship with God in duty,^when they put us by it, when they indispose us to it, when they distract us in it, when they choke it, as thorns, Matthew xiii. 23.~lt is the very root of apostasy. Though a child of God cannot finally fall away,—for the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal,—/4# Lord htoma tkom thai art Am ; yet he may fearfully backslide, both in opinion and judgment, firom truth to error; and also in aflfection and conversation, lirom his first love, and former zeal, and forwardness in the ways of God. Therefore, iot kim that Udnlu ko ttandt toko kotd le»t ko fall, Sfc. I Tim. vi. 10. 3 Tim. iv. 10. It unfito us for death. A Christian should always he in such a frame of mind, as he would be willing for death to find him in. Now, if death should find thee drunk with cares, it were as bad a case as if he should find thee drunk with wine, or ale; the one would make thee as unfit as the other, to 90 forth to moot tht bridegroom Luke xxi. 34.

Let us use God and the world, as God and the world use us. God is our daily fHend,—the world our daily enemy. A man that hath friends, must show himself friendly, Prov. xviii. 34. Is God thy friend 1 Show thyself friendly towards him. Love him. Delight in him. Beware of displeasing him. Is the world thy enemy? Watch against it. Stand upon thy guard, lest it insnare thee. Take heed of it. It hath slain thousands. P. Henry. Grig. MS. m Hab. ii. 6. Gravioribus sumptibus se onerare festinat cum jam pervenerit quo tendebat Augustine. Ser. de temp. 947. See Steele on Old Age. p. fil. «/ npra.

APPENDIX, No. XXIV. humility, 1 Peter v. 5. Consider how sinful it is in the sight of God, how much uneasiness it causes relations, and how much hurt it does to yourselves. Moses's meekness prolonged his days, and made him young when he was old.

The aged should be knowing in the things of God, and communicate what they know. Many old people are shamefully ignorant in the Scriptures: blind spiritually. See Hebrews v. 12. Think how often you have read, and heard the Scripture read over; think how many sermons you have heard. What! and all gone? Has nothing remained? How will you answer it ? What a shame it was to old Nico-demus, not to know what regeneration meant. Bestir yourself yet to grow in knowledge. Be often speaking to the young. Tell them what you have learned concerning God and Christ, and holiness and sin; what you have seen of the wisdom and righteousness of God in past events. See Psalm Ixxviii. 1, 2, &c. Titus ii. 2, 3. You should be teachers of good things.

I have known several, who are dead; and do know some in this neighbourhood, yet alive,—aged men, of such competent knowledge, and so well experienced in the things of God, that I could wish they were made ministers, as being more likely to convert and save souls, than many youths who can talk Greek and Latin, but have little savour of God upon their hearts. There is a reverend prelate, yet living, in the Church of England, who hath lately, in print, declared himself of the same mind.** See the Bishop of Hereford's Naked Truth.*"

The aged should redeem as much time as may be for their souls, and the duties of God's worship. All time is our soul's time, principally and ultimately, and it concerns us all to use, and improve, and redeem it accordingly. But it especially concerns the aged, for they have lost much, and they have little remaining. They know not how little, perhaps, less than we are aware of. How busy then should we be in praying, reading, hearing, meditating, sanctifying sabbaths, communicating in the Lord's supper. Sec Luke ii. 25, 96, 37. Thu would be work for your souls,—work in which yon would have comfort to eternity. Many aged persons have, in a great measure, put oif their worldly business to children and grand-children; they can do little in the fieldS;^ or in the bam. The more then should be done in the closet, and in the assembly. And let me warn

B And we Puller's Church History, book ▼iii. pp. 34,35. o ** The Naked Truth, or the True State of the Primitive Church," 4to. 1675. See particularly the chapter concerning preaching. Mh. p. 25. The worthy bishop (Dr. Croft) styled himself in the title page, ** An Humble Moderator.** And, says Baxter, *' because he wrote to heal us, and strengthen us against popery, they gnash their teeth at him.** English Nonconformity, pp. 831, 333. «/ npta. See Walton's Lives* by Dr. Zouch. v. 3. pp. 349, 391. where there is some account of this oelebnted pamphlet, and itsciftcts. you of one fault, and that is,—drowsiness in the duties of God's worship. I know what may be said from bodily infirmities,—the spirit willing, and the flesh weak. But yet we should strive all we can against it, and grieve that it should be so.

Old people should be mindful of death and judgment, and careful always to prepare and make ready for it. Two things are to be set in order,— the house and the heart. The house,—by settling our worldly estate. We shall die none the sooner, but we shall certainly be readier for death.P Isaiah xxxviii. 1; The heart, by settling our spiritual estate; that is, making our calling and election sure; repenting of sin, receiving Christ Jesus the Lord, walking in all his commandments blameless. He who hath done this, is ready for death. Romans viii. 1. It is delay in doing it that spoils all. Nobody says they will never do so; nobody says they will never make their will \^ but they say. Not yet; not till such an affair be settled. And, alas! death comes, and prevents both the one and the other.

Now, consider what a mercy it is that we have lived to be so old, when so many have been cut off. How many have died, who never saw the sun. And how many thousand sunshast thou seen. How have thy dajTS been multiplied. As many three years as thou hast lived, so many thousand days, and upwards, have been given to thee. As many twenty years as thou hast lived, so many thousand sabbath-days hast thou enjoyed. And should not thb engage us ? Lord, thou hast been good to me,—in reprieving, and sparing, and prolonging, and shall I forget thee?

Consider what an honour he hath put upon us. Old age is a ray or beam of the divine image. God is called the Ancient of Days, Daniel vii. 9,13,22. But he is not, therefore, to be pictured as an old man.' As magistrates bear the image of his authority and sovereignty, he sajrs,—they are gods. So in a sense old men are gods. Yea, they are all children of the Eternal. Oh, 'then, make sure of his other image, which is called the image of his son, and consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness.

Consider what an encouraging example it will be to others. Our neighbours and relations will take occasion from thence, both to glorify God, and to reverence us. The hoary head is a crown of glory.

P Setting a man's house and heart in order, will not make a man die the sooner; it will help the man to die the better. Ca. naan's Flowings, by Ralph Venning, p. 47.«/ «»pra. q One of the three things of which Aristotle repented, was,— That he had lived one day, not having his will made. Stanley*s History of Philosophy,«/ npra. t Alluding, probably, to the celebrated picture in the window of St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury. See Prynn^^ Canterburies Doome. foL 1946. p. 102.

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207 foand in the way of righteousness; other-is a crown of shame. Noah was drunken e, and then he was mocked. The apostle, Qg Timothy, said,-*/>f no man despise thy

So I would say to you,—Let no man despise , Do nothing to he despised. Watch against 1 may think you are in no danger of. Be an e of the believers. The young will dress Yes by you, as by their glass.* ider how comfortable it will be to yourselves, ind dying. Old age is attended with many But much of their effect is taken off by rend godliness. ^ He thai is of a merry heart, THtinualfeast, A merry heart, that is, a good Dce, bearing testimony to our integrity, 2 ians i. 12. This will lighten all our bur-We shall have the smiles of God's face, and and we may boldly entreat for them, as Da-ilm Ixxi. 17, 18. Isaiah xlvi. 3, 4. Psalm der what a foundation it lays for a happy All the good fruit we bring forth now, will abounding to our account for ever. I say, '.° Thou thinkest seventy, eighty, ninety long time, and so it is. But what then is ? An ocean, without bound or bottom. A vithout beginning or end. Oh, eternity, eter-[ow should the thought thereof fill us. To rable to eternity ! How miserable! To be 9 eternity ! What happiness ! I prevail with you to bring forth fruit in old on will not repent it. Your labour shall not lin in the Lord. Not a prayer, a tear, an good thought, a good word, a good work, in vain. your fruit-bearing, see your need of Christ r need of his grace and strength to enable in XV. 5. And come to him for it daily, r need of his merit and righteousness, to u and your fruit accepted, Ephesians i. 6. his love to you, in suffering and dying, be ailing motive in every thing, Philippians

Swinnock, in bis Heaven and Hell epitomized, ad-n an epistle dedicatory, his Mend, Richard Beres-aya of great men.—You are the looking-glasses by rs dress themselves, ut npra. le troubles and afflictions that be&ll us, it is matter of itt, they are to last but a while. BMd, Mm kaai mad* K kMdnUik. At furthest, death will set us free, and be &r off; then sinning will cease, and sorrow and flee away. They that are in Christ, as David was, may maelves with this. Others cannot P. Henry. Orig.

I of lioly llr. Ward, that being in the midst of a dinner, ooplative, and the people wondering what he was I

APPENDIX, No. XXV.

It may be gratifying to some readers to know, tiiat Mr. Henry was an advocate for common-place books. He used two. The one was adapted for the pocket, being merely a volume of reference: titles were placed on each leaf, and a blank left underneath, in which to note the names of authors and pages. The other was a large folio volume, divided into 1250 pages." The volume ' thus commences. ii

Quod leyis intente meditare ae imjnime mentis Ne si eharta eadai, tune euneta scieniia vadat,"

I read a book the first time, to see and like it; the isiecond time, to note and observe both method and matter; the third time, to carry away and make use. A saying of Sir Edward Maunsell, cited by Mr. H. Holland, in his Preface to the second part of Mr. Greenham's Works.^

The first part of the volume is miacellaneons, and is arranged under the ensuing titles.

Holy Scriptures. Their excellency; the love and study of them, et contra; their authority ; their perspicuity; their harmony; translation; interpretation; apocrypha.

God. There is a God ; names of Grod; attributes of God; vrill of God; holiness; wisdom of God; power of God; mercy of God; justice of God; om-nisciency.

Trinity of persons.

Holy Ghost.

Decrees of God.

Election.

Reprobation; creation; providence. ^ Angels. Their creation and nature; their number and orders; their offices; not to be worshipped; their fall.

Devils. Given to the devil; possessed; apparition.

Man. Woman. Man in innocency; man in misery.

Christ. Godhead of Christ; incarnation; life of Christ; sufferings of Christ; death of Christ; burial; musing abont, he presently breaks ont, F ntr for etm, fgr «Mr ; and though they endeavoured to still him. yet he still cried out,— Fttrjor ntrfor etm. Oh, eternity! to be for ever in heaven with God and Christ, how shall this swallow up all other thoughts and aims! Looking unto Jesus, by Isaac Ambroae. 4to. 1GS8. p. 504.

T P. Henry. Orig. MS. w idSS. Jan. 17. Exchanged with Mr. Thomas my common-place book, wherein something written for a larger of clean paper.—la. New oommon«place book, ruled and prepared, wherein 1 purpose to take pains. Non $tra nutria, P. Henry. Diary. Orig. MS.

X In the possession of Joseph Lee, Esq. Jun., Red Brook Fum, hear Broad Oak.

7 See ffs/r, p. 110.

APPENDIX, No. XXV. descent into hell; resurrection of Christ; satisfaction of Christ; intercession of Christ; kingdom of Christ.

Covenant. Covenant of works; law; covenant of grace.

Gospel. Decalogue; promises; threatenings; redemption ; idleness; vocation; calling; conversion; regeneration; adoption ; justification; sanctifica-tion; mortification; assurance-wanted; growth in grace; perseverance; apostasy ; good works ; obedience ; perfection ; spiritual gifts; grace; knowledge ; ignorance; of self; faith; repentance not to he deferred ; godly sorrow ; tears; confession of sin ; sincerity; hypocrisy ; humility ; pride,—in clothes,—in long hair; meekness; charity ; forgiving injuries; lending; not judging; fidelity; patience ; impatience; contentment; discontent; justice ; liberality; frugality ; fortitude ; sobriety; temperance ; gluttony ; drunkenness ; of healths; self-denial; public spirit; unity; division ; differences ; duties ; meditation ; occasional prayer,—'a duty ; prayer,—fervent; success of prayer; secret prayer; family prayer; posture and gesture in prayer; Amen ; thankfulness; thanksgiving; alms'-giving; watchfulness; reproof taken ; oath ; vow.

Sin. None little; excuses of sin; others' sins; evil of sin; reigning sin; God not the author of sin; original sin; inherent.

Atheism. Idolatry ; blasphemy ; swearing; perjury ; cursing; superstition; will-worship; temples.

Sacrilege. Punished.

Murder. Prevented; discovered; revenged.

Duels. Uncleanness; adultery; fornication ; incest ; sodomy; bestiality; chastity ; theft; restitution; bribery; lying; equivocation; dissimulation ; slander.

Flattery. Checked; courted.

Envy. Covetousness; prodigality.

Usury. Heathen; canons.

Ambition. Omissions ; presumption; despair sin against tiie Holy Ghost; temptation ; desertion.

Persecution; judgpnents on persecutors.

Martyrdom. Martyrs; courage of dying martyrs.

Soul. Understanding.

Will. Free will; contra.

Memory. Defect; vast memory.

Conscience. Thoughts;' affections.

Love. Of God; of self; of friends; of enemies.

Hatred.

Joy. In tribulation.

Grief. Desire; hope; fear and boldness.

Anger. Yielding pacifies; revenge.

Zeal. Examples.

Sympathy. Antipathy.

Body of man. Eye; face ; hands; veins.

Tongue.

Recreation. Plays; gaming; tables, cards, and dice; chess; dancing.

Melancholy. Infancy ; childhood; youth; old age; health.

Sickness. Stone; king's evil; French disease.

Honour. To be denied for Christ; nobiii; riches contemned.

Poverty. Prosperity; afflictions; life.

Death. Desirous of death; afraid of death; of the godly ; to be thought of.

Burial. Resurrection of the body; last j udgment

Heaven. Shall we know one another there.

Hell. War.

Peace. Peace-making.

Plenty. Famine ; company ; solitude ; time; eternity.

Fathers. Schoolmen; Christian religion ; church; government; toleration; church reformation ; censures.

Excommunication. Who are to excommunicate; who are to be exoo Dununicated.

Councils. Synods.

Ordination.

Ministers. Dignity ; duty ; industry; skill in languages ; conversation ; success ; opposition ; contentions; pluralities.

Lay elders. Deacons; prelacy; prelates ; ordi* nances; public worship; liturgy; Lord's Prayer.

Ceremonies. Bowing at the name of Jesus; sur« plice.

Christian liberty. Preaching; hearing; cat chising; psalm-singng; confirmation ; sacraments baptism.

Godfathers and godmothers. Of infants.

Lord's supper. Names; nature; elements; abuse; preparation; administration; place; gture.

Lord's day. The doctrine of it; the love and practice of it.

Fasting. Feasting; festivals.

Tithes. First fruits; impropriations; mortuaries.

Marriage. Polygamy ; divorce ; husband and wife ; parents and children ; master and servants; magistrate and] subjects; minister and people ; residency; respect

Heresy. What it is; qualities; necessity; refu tation.

Heretics. Cunning; seeming holiness ; pride ; sin and punishment.

Schism. What is it ?

Schismatic. Antichrist; pope's supremacy; pope's infallibility; indulgences; purgatory; extreme unction ; transubstantiation ; mass ; image worship; relics ; prayer for the dead ; praying to saints; merit; supererogation; traditions: miracles; tntii; error; papists; protestants.

Popish orders. Cardinals; Jesuits.

Arminians. Socinians; Antinomians; Ana-baptists; Quakers; Jews.

Jewish rites. Sabbath ; circumcision; passo Tor.

Jews' conversion. Schools; universities; leam-

APPENDIX, No. XXV.

209 bg; grammar; rhetoric; poetry; philosophy; history; mathematics; masic; optics; politics.

Laws. Lawyers ; judges ; physic ; physician; astrology; meteors; dreams; witchcraft; jests; riddles; proverbs; emblems ; anagrams; chrono-irams; mottos ; epitaphs.

The Second Part is geographical, and thus arranged:— World. Europe; Asia; Africa; America. England,—London, Oxford, and Cambridge. Wales; Scotland; Ireland. France,—Paris; Spain; Italy; Naples ; Florence; Siena; Verona ; Milan ; Genera; Venice; Padua; Rome, Old, New; Germany ; Low Countries; Denmark; Swedland; Hungary ; Poland; Transylvania ; Russia ; Greece ; Turkey; Palestine; Jerusalem; Tartary; China; Persia ; East Indies; Arabia; Egypt; Islands ; Crete; Cyprus ; Zante.

The Third Part is biographical, consisting of four sub-diyisions.

Viri celebriores. A h orbe amdito ad Christum natum.

Adam; Eve; Homer; Lycurgus; Hesiod ; Romulus ; Thales ; Socrates ; Pythagoras ; iEsop Pindar ; Heraclitus ; Democritus ; Hippocrates Euripides ; Sophocles ; Herodotus ; Thucydides Aristophanes; Isocrates; Xenophon; Demosthenes Plato; Euclid; Aristotle; Alexander; Theocritus Aratus; Zeno; Berosus; Diogenes; Hannibal; Cato|: Polybius ; Archimedes ; Chrysippus ; Plautus Ennius ; Terence ; Lucretius ; P. Scipio; Cicero Catiline; Pompey; Julius Caesar; Augtus Caosar Oiidius; Virgil.

Viri celebriores.

A nato Chriiio ad Constantinum.

Peter; Andrew; James of Zebedee ; John; lhilip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew; James, of Alphens; Lebbeus, alias Thaddeus; Simon, the Canaanite; Judas Iscariot; Philo; Simon Magus Meoander; Nicolaus; Plinius Secundus; Lucan Tiberiiu Csesar; Cains Caligula; Claudius Caesar Kero Caesar; Sulpitius Galba; Salvius Otho Aulas VitelUos ; Flavins Vespasianus; Titus Ves-ipaaanofl; Flavimi Domitianus; Coccejus Nerva; Ulpius Trajanus; iElius Adrianus ; Lucius iElius Vems; Antoninus Philosophus; Antoninus Pius; L. Aurelins Commodus; HelviusPertinax; Didius Jalianos; Pescennios Niger, a usurper; Clodius AAimiSy MFrtfti**^ tmirper, with Niger; L. Septimus

Severus; Ignatius; Justin Martyr; Irenaeus; Clemens Alexandrinus; Tertullian; Origen; Cyprian.

Viri celebriores.

A Constantino ad Luthei*um.

Constantine, sumamed the Great; Julian, the Apostate; Lactantius ; Ambrose; Augustine; Monica; Hierome ; Athanasius; Chrysostom; Hilary ; Germanus St. Germane; St Patrick; Co-lumba; St Kintigem, or Mungo; Mahomet; Jo« annes Duns Scotus; Columbus.

Viri celebriores.

A Luthero ad usq, nunc.

Martin Luther; Joannes Capnio: Henry the Seventh, of England ; Zuinglius; CBcolampadius ; Melancthon ; Erasmus; Scaliger; Paulus Fagius ; Charles the Fifth; Philip the Second; Henry the Eighth; Edward the Sixth; Queen Mary; Lady Jane Grey; More ; Wolsey ; Paracelsus; John Calvin; Peter Martyr; Roger Ascham ; Ursin; Beza; Junius; Francis; Patrick Hamilton ; George Wischart, alias Wishart; John Knox; Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots; John Rogers, martyr; Cranmer; Latimer; Ridley; Brown ; Queen Elizabeth ; Leicester ; Cecil; - Drake; Rawleigh ; Sidney ; Greenham; Faustus Socinus, hceresiar-cha; Bancroft; Whitaker; Perkins; John Craig; George Abbot; John Welsh ; Heinsius; Henry the Fourth, of France; Jacobus Arminius, al. Van Har-min ; Hugh Broughton ; King James; Camden; Rogers ; Gustavus; Jansenius ; Francis Bacon ; John Preston; Grotius; Herbert; Selden; Salma-sius; John Spotswood ; John Cotton; Abraham Cowley; Mary Boyle, Lady Warwick; Robert Foulks; James Sharp; Mr. Thomas Gouge; Sir George Booth; Lord Delamere ; Mr. John Flavel; King WUUam the Third.

This interesting volume contains a variety of valuable and curious reading, selected principally from the writings of Ovid ; Terence ; Juvenal; Horace; Martial; Tacitus; Cicero; Quintilian ; Velleius Paterculus; Seneca; Pliny; Plutarch; August-tine ; Tertullian ; Nazianzen ; Chrysostom ; Cy«. prian; Lactantius; Basil; Origen; Bernard; Ambrose and Epiphanius ; Luther; Calvin; Melancthon; Beza; Scaliger; Erasmus, and Grotius; Melchior Adam; Bacon; Camden; Stow and Spel* man ; Jewel; Rivet; Peter Martyr; Musculus ; Thuanus; Fox; Bishop Hall; Dr. Harrison; Ames; Nehemiah Rogers; Perkins; Bolton; Dr.

APPENDIX, No. XXV. XXVI.

Harris; White ; Quarles ; Arrowsmith ; Stoughton; Strong; Hildersham; Taylor; Burroughs; Gouge; Trapp ; Shepherd; Greenham; Capel; Burgess; Tuckney; Rutherford and Blake; Heylin; New-come ; Hales ; Baxter; Case ; Caryl; Cud worth ; Reyner; Bridge; Calamy ; Clark; Howel; Sanderson; Reynolds; Lightfoot; Stillingfleet; Leigh; Hammond; Prideaux ; Mede; Spurstowe ; Dr. Owen; Polhiil ;* Gurnal; Rycaut, and Gale.

Much of the volume still remains unwritten, scarcely a sentence having been added to it since Mr. Matthew Henry's decease. It served as a common-place book to that gentleman, as well as his venerable father.

To the volume are added three indexes. The first biographical; the second miscellaneous; the third geographical.

From the preceding analysis, Mr. Henry's taste and habits, as a student, will, in some degree, be apparent. It has been much desired to ascertain his judgment upon the authors he consulted; but the search has been, as, at this distance of time, might be expected, almost ineffectual. The following are the only instances, and though brief, can scarcely be omitted. They may serve as specimens, and being transcribed from his own hand, are genuine.

Herodotus. Tully calls him the father of history, which title he deserves in regard of antiquity, being the oldest Greek historian extant.

Thucydides. A most grave and accurate Greek historian, than whom scarce any Grecian ever discovered a more impartial love to the truth in what he wrote.''

Fathers. It is a good rule in reading the Fathers, to begin with the most ancient: to know which of their works are genuine, and which spurious ; consult Photius Mvpio/3i/3Xov; Possevin's Apparat; Bib-liothec ; Bellarm. de Script. Eccl.; Abbas Trithe-mius. And among the Protestants,—Scultetus Me-dull; Rivett's Critic, Sacr.; Cooke's Censur. Patr; Erasm. in his Prefaces, Epistles, and Annotations on all those Fathers put forth by him.

To know the best edition of the Fathers, it is a general rule, those which Erasmus set out arc freest from corruptions: and in particular, Clemens Roman, edit. Oxon. A. D. 1633. Ignatius by Dr Usher. Oxon.

I read in Polhiirs Precious Faith; of which book, dear father once said,—It was hard to say which excelled, the gentleman, or the divine. Mrs. Savage. Diary, Orig. MCS. b Comnion-place Book. Orig. BiIS. e lb. See Home's Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. 4th edit. v. 2. Appendix, p. 739. d P. Henry. From a MS. in Mr. Matthew Henry's .hand.writing.

APPENDIX, No. XXVI.

What am I ? In sin, or in Christ? Am I effectually called, or am I not ? If not, it is dangerous coming. Ask what am I, that if I am not as I should be, I may mend my state. If not alive, then go to God for spiritual life. And when God gives life, then away to the sacrament for the support of the spiritual life. Those mentioned in Acts ii., as soon as they were converted, were presently in church-fellowship.

What have I done ? Here is work for self-examination. To consider our sins; the sin of our nature; the sins of our hearts and lives; the sins of our particular relations; sabbath sins; tongue sins, &c. When we have found out our sins, then we must repent. Repenting includes contrition, hearty sorrow ; contrition is the breaking of the heart, pounding it as in a mortar. Confession, telling God what we have done. Conversion, turning from sin. With all these, hearty prayer must be joined.

What do I want ? A condemned malefactor wants a pardon; a hungry soul wants bread; a debtor wants a surety ; a traveller wants a guide; a guilty person wants a city of refuge; a blind man wants eye-salve; a weak soul wants strength ; a jceless heart wants grace; a sinner wants a Saviour, Now all these are to be had with Christ All these are offered in the sacrament. In one word, Christ and all his benefits. When we are going to a market, we look about the house to see what is wanting. The sacrament is the market When we have found out our wants, we must represent them to God in prayer.**

In reference to this subject he would say;—Self-examination is required before the communion ; and he was urgent in pressing it. He frequently explained the nature of the duty, and pointed out the hinderances of it; such as laziness, self-love, pride, and ignorance of its necessity. Many think, he remarks, every man is bound to believe his sins are pardoned, and that God is his Father;—that it is a fault to question it. They are ignorant of the nature and way of the duty; know not how to examine, where to begin, nor what to inquire after. Some are hindered by a desperate resolution—To what purpose should they try ?—They resolve to continue as they are, come what will; this preciseness will not suit them: they must have liberty. The world is a snare to many. False persuasions, that the work is done already, hinder others/ Many who 1683-4. See Matthew Henry's Communicant's Companion, chap. IV. post

They are fully persuaded that Christ died for them, and that they shall l>e saved. How they came by this persuasion they can. not tell. But it is suspicious to liave goods, and know not how one came by them. The Doctrine of Faith, by John Rogers, p 32. duod. 1634.

APPENDIX, No. XXVI. XXVII.

211 mine, yet do it by halves; they go about it in vn strength, and so miscarry, lotives to it, he would urge, that multitudes wrho thought all was well. Proverbs xiv. 12. dii. 25. xviii. 10, 11; Revelations iii. 17; in easy and a common thing to be mistaken; re many bye-ways; the heart is deceitful, least despairing are most desperate, Isaiah K What if death should come before thou ed ? Thou wilt be lost for ever;—there will trjring in the grave. Shortly, God will try besides, there is great advantage in it. If erted, it will be a means to bring thee out of ndition. If in Christ, it will marvellously consolation; in this way, and no other, thou attain assurance, 2 Peter i. 10; which will B admirable sweetness;—sweetness in every on, let public troubles be what they may. It ate the terribleness of death and judgments d wings to obedience.

MTOuld say, by way of direction;—Art thou d to set about it ? Sequester thyself from all nployments. Implore the Spirifs assistance ty prayer, Psalm cxxxix. 20. Pitch upon time when you are fittest for the work,—best d. Have in readiness some scripture marks ti and grace, and then try,—Is it thus with is it not ? Give not over till it be brought to ;suc; let the sentence pass without fear or . When thou knowest thy condition, be af-accordingly. If thou find thou art, to this thy sins, oh, tremble, and make haste ! Do elude it is in vain to turn. If otherwise, rend be exceeding glad, mother occasion he writes;—Are ye passed ath unto life ? There is such a thing, and it known, and we can have no comfort in living of nature, if we are not spiritually alive; if not live the life of grace. Now, one good o know it by, is the end that we live to. Is kI, or self? Another, is by the food that we 9n. Is that Christ ?—His merit and righte-( for justification; his Spirit and grace for cation ? Another is by the rule that we live that the rule of the new creature,—the word ? Is that the card and compass we sail by,— it and lamp we walk by ? Or, is it something lie dictates of our own corrupt nature, car-son, fleshly appetites, the course and custom ?ain world ? Try by this/ my. Oiig. MS. srenlng before the death of the Rev. Daniel Burgess, a K) came to see him, speaking of public affairs, said, it was •re would be a storm; he answered with cheerfulness,^ p 2

APPENDIX, No. XXVII.

At this distance of time, any fact is interesting which illustrates the character, and perfumes the memory, of such men as Mr. Nevett. The Elegy, composed on his death, by Mr. Henry, being the only additional document that can be found respecting him, will, therefore, form a fit appendage to the narrative; and if it adds no honours to the writer as a poet, it will furnish the reader with a pleasing relic of Christian friendship.

Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes A spring of tears, like melting Jeremy's; That I might weep, and weep, and weep again O'er the sad hearse of a dear prophet slain. Slain by an arrow, darted from above; Tow'rds us in anger; towards him in love. A star is fallen, not from God to sin. But from this lower orb he shined in: Rather from sin to God; from wandering here. To fix with him in a more holy sphere ; New storms are rising, he's put into shore ; A deluge coming, he is ark't before.' Oh, earth, earth, earth, hearken what heaven saith; Each rod, a voice, this rod a loud one hath. The owner thought it much, three years to come To a barren tree, which hastened its sad doom; What then can they expect, that ten times three Had such a dresser, if they barren be ? A faithful, self-denying shepherd, who Sought not the fleece, but flock; not yours, but you. Many a time he to the pulpit went, Pain'd as a gorged breast, till he had vent; And then his zeal so eat him up, that pain Being strait forgotten, all was well again. How far unlike those ministers, to whom A burthen 'tis ; their only martyrdom. 'Tis hard to say, whether he rather was A Boanerges, or a Barnabas. Not one but both ; he did both wound and heal; Preach law and gospel; sin and Christ reveal. But his delight was chiefly to distil, Not from black Sinai, but from Sion's hill,— Such sweet refreshing showers of holy d6w, As would at once both melt and comfort too. Great love, rich mercy, and free grace to all That truly do embrace the gospel call. This was his text, this was his doctrine, this The burthen was in every song of his; Ev'n to the last, for when his master came,^

So doing he was found,—found in this frame; " But Ood will house some of his children first'* Matthew Henry's account of Mr. Daniel Burgess, pM/. b His last subject was, Ephesians ii. 4,5.

APPENDIX, No. XXVII. XXVIII.

And by his constant breathing in such air, His spirit, his converse, strangely sweeten'd were.

You'd think, sure he had lean'd upon that breast

Where that disciple lean'd, that love so press'd.

Jonathan's love, greater than womans was, But his did even Jonathan's surpass.

And one good argument it is to prove

Him greatly lovd, himself that did so love.

Flaming affections, bowels that did stir, As husband, father, brother, friend, minister; This was his fiery chariot, in this Living he rode, as th' dying prophet in his.

'Mongst all his other graces, 'twere most fit

That loving Nevett be his epithet.

Methinks I see him, ever and anon,

Casting up eyes and hands to heaven's throne; Darting ejaculations thither; where Heart-words are understood, and silent prayer.

His conversation was above, and he

Hath changed his place, but not his company.*

That sacred knot tied between him and you, Law upon law did not, could not undo.

Still he was yours, you his, he would not part, For Oswestree was written on his heart.*'

But death hath done it, death the knot hath cut; And those whom God hath join'd, asunder put

Yet 'tis for present only; time shall come, When you shall meet again at Father's home

And be together ever,—with the Lord; Souls, take the comfort that these words afford.

And may those hopeful young ones each inherit

A double portion of their father's spirit:

Copies of him, that so it may be said.

While they sor vive, he is not wholly dead.' i An allusion, probably, to the death-bed scene of Dr. Preston. Expressing his belief of a ** sudden change/' he said,—" Not of my company; for I shall still converse with God and saints, but of my place, and way of doing it.** Clark's Lives, appended to the Martyrologie, pp. 113,113, «/ tupra. k Queen ISary •* letted not to say, that the loss of Callis was written on her heart, and might therein be read when her body should be opened.** Speed's Hist of Great Britain, p. 1131. fol. 1632.

APPENDIX, No. XXVIII.

Mr. Bbnyon's mother is distinguished by Mr. Henry, in his diary, by a special memorial, of which the following is a transcript.

1663. May 5. At ten o'clock, I was sent for to Ash, where I came at eleven, and found my worthy, dear aunt Benyon alive, and that was all. We went to prayer,—and her life and prayer ended together. She was, without comparison, the best friend I had in this country, and it is no small loss to lose such an one. Lord, make up the loss to me, and all her relations, and humble us for sin, that kill-friend.

7. My dear aunt Benyon was buried at Whitchurch, Mr. Thomas preached. Text, I Corinthians iii. 22. Lord, tkke up the children, and come in her stead to all her relations, and to me. Amen.

She was daughter to Mr. Knight, of Shrewsbury, and had been married twenty-seven years to my uncle Benyon, by whom she had issue, now living, Daniel, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth. She was the fittest wife for him in the world, being patient and prudent, in opposition to his passion and rashness. She was, I verily believe, one that truly feared God, and was taught to do it from her youth. She was of the mourners of Sion, laying much to heart the sins and sufferings of the times. She was provident and diligent in family affairs, laying ker hands to the spindle, and her hands held the distojf. She was an inward, real, true-hearted friend. Eminent for humility and self-denial. Witness that expression of hers, when speaking of her childien. I said,—I did not doubt but God had a kindness in store for them for her sake. She answered,—" For my sake! Alas, poor things, if it be not for another's sake than mine, they are undone.""*

—Had he opened been by surgeons* ert. They had found London burning in his heart**

Dr.'Wild, on the Death of Mr. Calamy. Iter Boreale, &c. p. 80. duod. I67L

1 From Mrs. Savage* s MS. m P. Henry. Diary, Orig. MS.

NOTES.

Sir H. Ashursl,—p. 3. elleot pervon was descended from the AsbursU of Aihunt, in e. His father, best known as Alderman Ashnrst, apjpears to eminent fnr piety, and every Christian virtue. His character 1 at lare by Mr. Baxter. Works, v. 4. p. 189, &c. fol. Keliq. *art. I. 290. Part. HI. 17. 189. The ahlerman died In 1680, K $imilar testimony has been borne by Dr. Bate.^ in the pre> is funeral sermon for Mr. Benjamin Ashurst, Sir Henry's Works. 4. p. 390. Sir Henry Ashurst trod in the steps of able parent, and distingiiishea himself on the trial of Mr. as a steady, faithful friend. Reliq. Baxter. Preface, &c. Biog. . p. 16, &c. He published the Life of the Rev. Nath. Hey. ko was ejected, by the Art of Uniformity, from Ormskirk, m -e. Hi« intimacy with Mr. Henry, and also with Mr. Matt. as coojitant. Mr. Matt. Henry, in his Diary, May 8. 1707-8, le following: incident. " Wrote to Sir H. Asfiurst, who writes Ivi Saturday, he presented the Queen [Anne] my father's ray t>ook of the Sacrament;—sapless things, I fear, at court, i sure, unworthy to be so ret:arded." f lenry died at his seat at Waterstoke, near Coventry, I3th 10-11." Matt. Henry. Diary. Drig. MS. Afterwards, be He left £800, to be paid to me 3 years after his decease, to be a( by me, as I should think most for the glory of God. It is e to me. God give me wisdom and grace to use it well." f 36. Orig. MS. in Dunton's encomium upon him in his Life and Errors, v. «l tvpra. See, aUo, Uid. p. 273.

Object his nonconformity,—p. 4. i.coropliance, observes a distinguished Clergyman, was a great the Church, for he was eminently qualined, as a divine, a nd a gentleman, for one of its ministers. Noble's Continuaanger's Biog. Hist, of England, v. I. p. 124. gin of the distinction between cooformii»ts and nnn-conformt>e sought for ** in the conduct of tlia<ie persecuted'fugitives, ave their lives, their families, and their fortunes, from the ge and inhuman tyranny of Queen Mary, left the places of ivity, in the year 1554, and took refuge in Germany. Of iti*e congregations, some performed divine worship with the bad been authorized by Edward VI. while others preferred method of worsliip, as more recommcndable, on account of and simplicity. The former were called conformists, on actheir compliance with the ecclesiastical laws enacted by the w mentioned ; and the denominations of non-conformists and rere given to the latter, from their insisting upon a form of nore exempt from superstition, and of a more pure kind than 8:y of Edward seemra to be." Mosheim's Eiccl. Hist v. 4.

: ed. 1774. OCt.

Two of his four daughters died,—p. 7.

!, Mrs. Radford, who died, Aug. 1, 1697. Sec a Memoir of' c Savage's Life, Appendix, No. V. ut tupra. er, Mrs. Hulton, who died, Sept. 6, 1697. A Memoir of her, tended to the third edition of Mrs. Savage's Life. nee to thoae affecting events, their eldest sister, Mrs. Savage, to another sinter, Mrs. Tylstou. pretence for this prosecution was a supposed reference of some I one of his works, to ttie Bishops of the Church ot England ;" >al motive was the desire of puniahina an eminent Dissenting History of the Early Part of the Ileign of Jams " by the es James Fox, p. 97. 1

S.

Dear Sister,

Sept 17.

I thank you for your letter, though loadeu with heavy tiding*. Dear brother wrote to me on Saturday, whith would have prepared*roe for worse, but it came not till to.day. I too much discover that my heart is not fixed as it should be. God's will it done, and my judgment is satisfied, but breach upon breach causes double sorrow; tluit which comforts, is,—hopes of a glorious meeting in the other world, to be together for ever, and witn the Lord. How shall we do to search and discover the Jonah that hath raised this storm t Certainly we have deserved worse. I find my heart too much glued to creature-comforts, whereby I have procured this to myself, and, in particular, as to dear sister Hulton, now in glory. I did too much re. joice, and please myself with her correspondence; for, next to com. munion with God, (in whose favour is life,) converse with those that have acquaintance with him is the most desirable happiness that this world affords; but even this must not be overvalued. Indeed, we wither our flowers by too much smelling them. Blessed be God, that lath mixed the cuji as to both you and I. We and ours are yet spared. And, wherefore ? But because the work we have to do is not nnished. This morning, as I lay on my sorrowful bed, that call of God to Joshua came to my mind,— t/p: Wherefort liett thou thiu on th face t larael hath tinned, 4'C. From whence 1 gather, that it is more proper work, when under the tokens of God's displeasure, to search for the cause, and humble myself under his mighty hand, than to lie down in despondency.

1 think it an aggravation of my grief, that I am confined, and cannot come to pay my last respects to one so dear to us; bnt the wise God sees it best tliat thus it shall be. If not two sparrows, sure not two dear sisters, fiill, without his providence. Why shoula not I expect to pledge the cup also?—God prepare me!—Welcome sickness, wel-come death, if the sting be out. Blessed be God, that you are in any measure recovered;—the same hand that wounds, must heal. I tnist he will heal the rest tliat are sick, and preserve tlie sound. Sister Hulton, in her last letter but one, writes thus:—Ob, we want our Aaron, our prevailing intercessor, the priest of the fiimily, who would have stood oetween the living and the dead, that the plague might have been stayed. Blessed be God, we once had such a relation, who had so much interest in heaven as he had; but, especially, blessed be God for Jesus Christ,—the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, seeing he ever lives to make intercession. My dear love to brother, and all yours, and believe me to be, as indeed I am.

Your affectionate, tliough sorrowfiil, Matthew Henry,—p. 8.

Ob. June 32, 1714, set. 53. See an Account of his Life and Death, by W. Tong, oct. 1716. Also the Dissenting Doctors, by John Dun-ton. Life and Errors, v. 3. pp. 736, 727.

Mr. Henry of Chester. He is son (if I do not mistake) to that fa. mous Henry, whose *' Life" was lately printed in London. I am told be does patrizare; for all his actions appear to be perfectly devoted to God, strictly observing St. Paul's rule, in the fourth of tne Philippi. ans,—"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things;" which Mr. Henry does, with that exactness and sincerity, tlie very churchmen love him; and e«en malice is angry she can find no cause to be angry with him. The Life and Errors of John Dunton, ut supra, V. I. p. 376.

Philip Henry was so pre-eminent in worth, that it would have been high honour to any roan to have been his son; but he was blessed with such a son, that posterity reveres him as the fiither of Matthew Henry. History of Dissenters, \. 3. p. 209l

• Orig. MS.

NOTES.

Magen Rochdale,—p. 10.

She wa« the daughter of Mr. Henry Rochdale, was born, Oct 19, 1599, and married to Mrf John Henry, Dec. 10, 1620.

Mr. Henry thus records her death :—

1644-5, Alar. 6, Thuniday. My dear mother departed this life between the hours of 12 and 1 in the morning, and lies interred in Margaret Church, Westmiuxtcr. Note. She was a woman of extraordinary piely and prudence, very careful in brinaring up her children in tlie fear of God, a loving wife, a kind neighbour, a good mother. The memory of her virtues remains exceedingly dear and precious with all that were acquainted with her. P. Henry's Diary, Orig. MS.

Gave him his name,—p. 10.

Mr. Henry's name has been often adopted, and the custom, it is probable, will lonii: continue.

The learned and excellent Dr. J. P. Smith, in an elegant memorial of his beloved son, Philip Henry Smith, araigos an instructive reason. ** The name was given, not from the honopr of relationship, nor from aflfectation ; but solely with the hope that, under the blessing of divine grace on the association of ideas, he mijiht be trained up to feel a pe-culiar interest in the character of that distinguished servant of Christ, and to love, admire, and imitate it.'* Evan. Mag. vol. 26. p. 378.

Asaembly of divines,—p. II.

Usually styled the Westminster Assembly. They were cmivened by Parliament n>r the Settlement of the Government, Liturgy, and Doctrine of the Church of England. They first met July I, 1643, in Henry the Seventh's Chapel. See Fuller's Church Hist, nt supra. Book XI. p. iy7, tec. Dr. Lightfoot's Works, in vit. fol. 1684. vol. I. p. 8. Hearne's Works, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, v. 1. p. clii. &e. And Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of those eminent Divines who convened in the famous Assembly at Westminster, by James Reid, 2 vols. oct. 1811.

Mr. Marshal,—p. 11.

Stephen Marshall, B. D. oh. Nov. 1665. The Lives of the Puri. tan.^ V. 3. p. 241, &c. " Going to hear Mr. Marshall, whiUt 1 was nodding, and almost asleejt, his powerful voice awakened roe, thunder, ing in my ears the dreadrul danger of such as were drowsie, and slept and slumbered away their salvation; which 1 thought %»as spoken directly to me, and had such prevalency upon me, that 1 started up with an aching heart, being much terrified at his words, which he .«itill pursued, and wounded me to the very heart, when he told us,—that, when time was pa.«»ed, it could never lie recalled aain, and then there was no other way but to ilonbleour diligence, and redeem the time we had lost by making more haste, and ta King more care and pains, or else we should be utterly lost and undone." Dyer's Heaven upon Earth, p. 6. ed. 1697. duod. In IQBOa quarto pamphlet was printed, entitled, " The Godly Man's Le;;acy to the Saints U(>on Earth, exhi. bited in the Life of that great and able Divine, and painful Labourer in the Word, Mr. Stephen Marshall, sometime Minister of the Gospel at Finchinfield, in Eistx." The object is to revile, and, by partial statementfi, so to repre^^ent, Mr. Marshall, as toclieck esteem, and lower the standard of his worth. It contains many curious things, and the title, though sarcastic, conveys a stronger testimony in his »vour than the writer intended.

Mr. Palmer, &c.—p. 11.

The Rev. Herbert Palmer, B. D. He was bom in 1601, and died in 1647. See Clark's Lives, annexed to the Martyrologie, p. 183, Uc. fol. 1677 : and the Life of the Rev. T. Cawton, p. 12, &c. ut tvpra.

The Rev. Charles Herle, A. M. was born l.%)8, ob. Sept. 1659. See the Liva of the Puritans, v. 3. p. 324. Mr. Herle was one of the Licensers for printing Books of Divinity. The order for regulating printing is preserved in Rnshw. Hist. Coll. v. .5. p. .T)5.

Edmund Staunton, D. D. was born, 1600, ob. 1671, July 14. Life, duod. 1673.

The Rev. Philijt Nye was born about 1596, ob. Sept 1672. Wilson's History of Dissenting Churches, v. 3. p. 71, &c.

Jeremiah WhUaker, A. M. was born, 1509, ob. June 1, 1654. See the Sermon preached at his Funeral, by Simeon Ashe, ut supra. nomas Bill, D. D. died Dec. 18, 1653. Lives of the Puritans, v. 3. p. 170.

Chosen from Westminster School,—p. 14.

In May, that year, I was chosen to Oxford with four others, John Busby, nephew to Mr. Busby; John Vincent, brother to Mr. Vincent, Second Usher; John Carrick, and George Annesley, son to the Viscount Valentia, brotlier to him who was afterwards Earl of Angle. ■ey and Lord Privy Seal. Of these I had the second place. Five mora were chosen, at the same time, to Cambridge,—Palmer, Wickham, Stone, Stacey, Chandler. P. Henry. Orijf. MS.

In the List of Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster, by Joseph Welch, 4to. 1788. p. 39. it is sUted, that '* Uiomas Vincent, Rector of St. Mary Magaalen, Milk-street, Ix>ndon," was the person elected to Oxford with P. Henry. But Wood says, that that" Inomas Vincent, of St Mary Magdalen, was made a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648, by the favour of the ParHamentarian Visitors," v. 3. p. 1174. ut supra; wbereas P. Henry, and his colleagiios, were elscted %nm Westminster,—and the year before. The minute descriptioo above given renders Mr. Henry's correctness the more probable, espedilhr as the office of Second Master was filled from 1645 to 1656, by a lir. Vincent See Welch, ut supra, p. 6. The same person was most likely, usher prior to that appointment. See an/e, p. 11.

Visitation of the University,—p. 15.

See Neale's History, v. 3. p. 395, &c. and Walker's Sufferion of the Clergy, Part I. p. 123, &c.

Dr. Edward Reynolds,—p. 15.

Afterwards Bishop of Norwich. Nat Nov. 1559, ob. 98tb Joiy, 1676. Middleton's Evang. Biog. v. 3. p. 424. See Reliq. Buter. Lib. 1. Part II. p. 963. ut supra.

Dr. Wall,-p. 15.

Dr. Wall, elected a Student of Christ Church, A. D. lo04. «t 17. Wood's Ath. Oxon. v. 3. p. 734. ut supra.

Mr. Wilkinson,—p. I&>

The Kev. Henry Wilkiuson, jun. commonly called Dean Harry. Nat. A. D. 161& ob. May 13, 1600. Mr. dtalmers's Biog. Diet. V. 32. p. 84.

Mr. Pocock,—p. 15.

Edward Pocock, S. T. P. Life and Writings of Dr. Pocock, m«. fixed to his Theoloaical Works, 2 vols. fol. 1740. vol. I. pp. 1—64. J>r. Pocock died in 1691, in his 87tii year.

Mr. Finmore,—p. 16.

Rev. William Finmore. Wood says he was afterwards Archdeacon of Chester. He died, A. D. ]f)86. Wood's Fasti. Ath. Oxon. v. 4. p. 121. wf supra. Walker says he died in 1681. Salliertn«s of tlic Clergy, Part II. p. III.

Bishop of Oxford,—p. 16.

Dr. Fell was born in 1625, and died lOth July, 1686. Mr. Chalmers's B.og. Diet. v. 14. p. 176, &c.

I6ti5. Feb. 24. Dr. Fell, Canon of Christ Church, preached before the King, a very formal discourse, and in blank verse, accordioK to his manner - however, he is a good man." Meov of John Evelyn, Esq. V. 1. p. 356.

When the King was belicaded,—p. 17.

See Dr. Parr's Lik of Archbishop Usher, p. 72. ut supra. Wherein appeared, shvs Baxter, the severity of God, the mutability and uncertainty of worldly things, and the fruits of a sinfhl nation's provocations, and the infamous edfecls of error, pride, and selfishness, prepared by Satan to be cliarged hereafter u|ion reformation and godliness, to the unspeakable injury of the Christian name and Protestant cause. Ministers preached and prayed ajspin.st disloyalty. They drew up a writing to the Lord General, (Fairfax,) declaring their abhor-rence of all violence against the person of the King, and urging him and his army to take heed of such an unlawful act. But pride [and probably fear also] prevailed a'xainst their counsels. Reliq. Baxter, p. 6:). ut supra. See tlie Life of Dr. Owen, by the Rrv. W. Omae, pp. 93, 94; and also, the Christian Observer, vol. 19. p. 811, ice.

In Vesperiis,—p. 18.

Vesprie. Thse qu*on soutient dans les Colleges \m aprdinies par un simple exercise, et sans c4rimonie. Cest aiissi le dernier acte aue soutient dans les Universites un Bachelier la veille du jour qu'il oit prendre le bonnet de Docteur, oii celui qui prde donne quelques avis au R£pondant: et cette Th a pour titre " pro acta vesperiali." Dictionnaire de Trevoux. The University of Oxford borrowed the Vesperi*, name and thi7)g» i which must not be confounded with Vespene, vespers,) from that o( 'aris, Vesperial Disputations were, in Oxford, formerly performed once a year, on the Saturday evening preceding the Act, which wu held on Monday. There is a full account of them in the Statutes, Tit vii. Sect. 1. in which it is provided, tliat the respondent of the Vcs-pcrite of one year, sliall the next year be appointed magister replicans of tlie comitia or Act, i. e. of the Monday morning disputations. This appointment (which was esteemed honourable) vested with the Senior Proctor.

In cofltitiu,—p. 18.

The Comitia are the stated times at which the University mteets, or comes t<^ther for the purpose of conferring honours, Piutardi, re-

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wd i M the ratiftcmtion of oertmin articles during the ^vernmeDt of RooiaTus, states tluit the place where it was done " is still called Cbsaifuias, from the Latin word coire which signifies to attemble." Lives, r. 1. p. 71. tUwupra.

No less a poet than an orator,—p. 19.

Mr. Palmer rrniarks in this connexion,—" Wood says not a word about Mr. Henry, thougb he was a noted Oxonian." Nonron. Mem. ?. 3.

5.489. Had not the Athense and Fasti included living characters, the eath of " Toney," the year before Mr. Henry, might have accounted for the omission. It may be said that the work, at least the roost ira-portant part, professes to record ** the tcr Uer* and bishops who have nad their education in tlie University of Oxford." But Mr. Henry having publislied the Latin Poem, would, therefore, strictly upeakinif, come within the arrangement. Had he, however, printed nothing, the omii Btion is observable, inasmuch as many names, equally distant with his from the mitre and autltorship, are there perpetuated. See Atb. Oxou. V. 1. p. cxlv. ut npra. Note 2.

Dr. Calamy, in his Abridgment of Baxter's Life and Times, v. 2. p. 708. has, indeed, assigned a cause, and too accordant with the historio. grapber's celebrity, but its incivility is such as to render an application objecti«>nablc, even to a more universal contemner of the non-conformists, not to mention "some of the greatest men in the Church of England." See Calaroy's Abr. ut wupra. v. 2. pref. pp. vii—xiii.

It has been excellently noted, that "God would have us judge the best in matters doubtful;" and the same writer adds,—"Beware how thou jndgest of actions, for thou mayest judge amisse, and speake amisae."—The Watchful Shepherd, by Nehemiah Rogers, p. 104. 4to. 1632.

The work of the ministry,—p. 03. lilliat is meant by th<f work of the ministry ? Something i» pre. maoo9ed. —Godlin*^s. 1 Tiro. iv. 7,12. Our lives should be the bf»ok oflne ignorant. This is essential to save ourselves, though not others. It will be small comfort to us to be as conduits, and liave no relish of what tliey convey to others; or to be as one who opens a gate the wrong way. Others go in; he remains out. Something ia prepara-tivt. Remding. meditation, prayer. Something i$ practical in private exhortation. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2Tim. iv. 2. Rfproof; in public, preaching, (ocraments, dixcipline. Mr. Steel at an ordination.—From a M8. in the hand-writing of Philip Henry.

An edifying form of " serious self-examination before ordination," is preserved in Tong's Life of Matt. Henry, p. 58, ice ut mpra.

Constitnted by ordinance of parliament,—p. 23.

Byway of probation. See Neal's History, v. 3. p. 274, <cc.

"The Parliament, tltourh they had early abolished episcopal antho-rity, bad not, during so long a time, substituted any other spiritual govcnsmcot in its place, and their Committees of Religion had hitlierto aasamad the wliole ecclesiastical jurisdiction; but they now established by an ordhumce the presbyterian model in all its forms of congrega-tiotal, classical, provincial, and national assemblies. All the inhabitants of earh parish were ordered to meet and choose elders, on whom, together with the minister, was bestowed the entire direction of all spi-ritoal cooccrns within the congretation. A number of neighbourine parishes, commonly between twelve and twenty, formed a classis; and the ooart which eoverned this division, was composed of all the minis, ters, together with two, three, or four elders chosen from each parish. The provi Dcml assembly retained an inspection o\er several neiglil Mur-ang clas Mes, and was composed entirely of clergymen; the national as. sembly was constituted in the same manner, and its aathority extended over the whole kingdom." Hume's Hist vol. 7. p. 420,421.

Mr. Houghton,—p. 23.

He pnblisbcd "An antidote against Henry Haggar's po3^nons pamphlet, entitled the Foundation of the Font discovered," 4to. 1658. The volume » dedicated " to the truly honoured, and his indeared friend the worshipful Thomas Hunt, Esq. Major of the Corporation of Salop. A praiseworthy patriot, and professed pattern of piety, witlmut respect of persons, even of all that love the truth in sincerity." See Me p. 143.

He set np a monthly lecture, tec—p. 29.

It appears that the lecture thus referred to occasioned offence; at this Mr. Henry expresses his regret; but it being " owned by a good attrodance," and as it would be " matter of great rejoicing to the iin-Kodly there if laid down," he was encouraged to go on. And, ** for ntytelf*' he writes, " if I am allowed to preach to them on the Sabbath day, why not on a week day !" " Fhr Mr. J>iour," he proceeds, " he it a godly roan, a scholar, intending the ministry, approved of by those who are able to judsce; desired often by Mr. Fogg himself, tio preach, and others." P. Henry. Orig. MS.

Mr. Lewis was evidently a lay-preacher. The following notices are rnnous:— When the Select Assembly met at Windsor Castle, various ques-tims were propounded for tlieir resolution. Their judgments were ac-raraiely sammed up by their venerable head—Cranroer, Lord Arch-bislmp of Canterbury. One query was, " whether, (if it fortuned a prtac* daris Cieo lemed, to conquer certain domynyous of infidells, hav. ing none but the temporall lemed men with him,) it be defended bv G<k1's law, that he and they should preche and techethe loord of God there, or no, and also to make and constitute priests, or noe." The answer follows,—" It is not against €k>d's law, but contrary; they ought in dede so to do, and there be historyes tliat witnesseth, that some christien princes, and other laymen unconf«rrate, have dnne the same." Orig. MS. cited in the Irenicuro, by Dr. Stillingfleet, p. 392, 393.

British History, ice. v. 3. p. 236.

He laid by the tenth of his income for the poor,—p. 35.

See Riches increased by giving to the Poor, or the surest and safest Way of Thriving, by the Rev. Thomas Gouge, duod. 1700, of which a reprint has lately appeared. Dr. Fell's Life of Dr. Hammond, p. 139. duod. 1662, and the Life of W. Stephens, Esq. by the Hon. Mr. Justice Park, p. 32.

It appears from Mr. Henry's papers, that he distributed many books. The Life of Mr. Nathaniel Mather was of the number. See Meinoir» of Dr. Increase Mather, p. 14. oct. 1725.

In their judgments episcopal,—p. 35.

Those are said to maintain the divine right of diocesan episcopacy, who anert that Christ haa appointed an order of ministers in his church, superior to the pastors of particular congregations, who are to exercitie the highe.«it acts of jurisdiction, especially ordination, excominuuica. tion. and confirmation; these they supitose to be, properly speaking, the succenors of the apostles, in such a sense as no other ministers are; to whose aiithnrity, therefore, neighbouring churches with tlieir pas. tors are to submit themselves in all matters which are not apparently contrary to tlie will of God. Doddridge's Work.«, v. 5. p. 300. ut m-pra. See Buck's Theol. Diet V. 1. Title, Episcopacy.

Others congregational,—p. 35.

Those who hold every pastor to be so a bishop or overseer of his own congregation, as that no other person or t>ody of men have, by divine institution, a power to exercise any superior or pastoral office in it, may, properly speaking, be called (so far at least) con<:regational; and it is by a vulgar mistake that any such are called Presbyterian;); for the Presbyterian discipline is exercised by synods and assemblien subordinate to each other, and all of them subject to the authority of what is commonly called a general assembly. Dr. Doddridge's Works, v. 5. p. 300. ut tupra. See Buck's Theol. Diet. v. I. Tit Church.

Others classical,—p. 35.

The union of many particular congregations under one presbyterial government See Neal's History, ut mpra. Appendix, No. VIII. pp. 84-86.

Mismanagement of that difference,-p. 36.

See Hope and Fear balanced; a Sermon, in this vol.

Excellent was the advice of Dr. Richard Gilpin:—" If you are not perfectly joined together in the same mind ami judgment about some disputable things, yet censure not one another for differences. All of you may hold tne Head, though your consciences be not alike satisfied in all things; nay, be not over-confident of your own understandines. I am speaking of the disputes about discipline and gnveruineut." The Temple Rebuilt; a Discourse on Zcch. vi. 13. preached at a General Meeting of the Associated Ministers of the County of Cumberland, at Keswick, p. 39. 4to. 1658.

The Cheshire Rising,—p. 37.

In the month of August, 1659, Sir George Booth, appearing in arms in Cheshire, at the head of an army of upwards of three ttioiitand men, he was accompanied by the Earl of Derby, Lord ChnlnmndeJey, Liord Kilmnrey, ana several of the principal gentlemen of the county: they mus'ereo niton Rowton Heath, the spot which had proved uiifortu. natf to King Charles Land there read and puhlinhed a Declaration, set ■ ting forth that they totik up arms for a free Parliament, and to deliver the nation from tlie slavery they then laboured under. General Lambert l>eing sent by the Parliament, with an army against Sir George Booth, they met at Winniuton Bridge, nenr Northwich, on the ICth of August, when an action ensued, in which Booth's forces were soon defeated, he himself escaped from the field in disjruise, but was taken at Newport Pagnell, and sent to the Tower." Lvsons's Magna Britan. nia, V. 2. p. 315. See also Ormerod's Hi!«t<»ry or Cheshire, v. 1. pp. xl. xli. and pp. 210, 404; and the Earl of Clarendon*!* State Papers, v. 3. p. 552. Many of the nonconformists took an active interest in this measure for tne restorstion of the Kin::, for which they suffered im* prisonment See Fawcett's Life of Hey wood, p. 62; and the Select Nonconformist's Remains, p. 13, &c.

Sir George Booth,—p. 37.

He had two wives, the former out of Lincoln, the latter out of Stamford fiunily, wlio aurvived him. He owned religion in the cloaet and NOTES. fkmily, especially daring his first wife's time. He sided with the eause of Uie Long PaniamenC but not in the death of the King. He had a Commission from Charles H. dated Aug. 9, 1G59, at Bruxels, whereby he wan made Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces in Che. iire, Lancashire, and North Wales; and was in arms accordingly, tliat month, but soon <^uellcd by Lambert, near Nortbwich.

One of the Regicides said, he had conjured up the old monarchical spirit in the nation, which he feared would never again be suppreswd.

Shortly after, when the King came in, he was made Baron of Dela-mere. These words in his patent, were read by Mr. Cawdry, at his funeral, and by his son, at hu trial for high treason, in Westminster Hall, in Jan. 1686-6. •

Idem (ireorgiu8 itummis majoribus nequtiquam virtute minor, crude-lissimo Patris iiostri Augusta; memoriae Parricidio nee non nostro mi-•errimo loneoq; Exilio Saevisq. Regnorum calamitatibus, barbara et inhumana Reicidarum rriidelitate. Manciiatonim gravissiroe af-fectus, sinjiulari in nos Amore in ruentem Patriam raemorabili pietate impulxuN incredibili virtute, Rei familiaris viteq. sumrao cum peri-culo, coacta fida et nobili fortium virorum manu e Coroitatibus Cea. trie et lancantriae Arma sumsit, nos RejniiSi nobis Regna redditurus Q,uibuB Ausis Indentibus licet tunc temporis ceciderit, restaurationis tamen nostrse tam felicis, tarn dii\ cxoptatK Ansam praebuit.

Towards his tenants, according to the hereditary virtue of his family, he was one of the best f>f landlords.

He was buried at Boden, in Cheshire, Septembef 9, 1084.

It was his pious custom, not only to search the Scriptures and meditate on them, but also to refer the Scriptures to their proper subjects, that they might be of ready use to hiro on all occurrences. I have seen three lH)oks in ouarto, writ by bis lordriiip's own hand, of that kind: under the head of "certainty of salvation," was Rev. xiv. 13. his funeral text. P. Henry. Com. P. Book. Orig. MS. See the Life and Errors of John Dunton, v. I. p. 178. ut ntprtL " He left it upon record to his children,—Tliat whenever he happened, which was very seldom, to omit his secret devotions, though upon never so urgent an occasion, he always found some cross interruptions and disappointments in the business of that day." Dunton, v. 2. p. 541,2.

See, also, Ormerod's History of Cheshire, v. I. pp. 404, 406; and Mr. Turner's Remark. Provid. ch. Ixxii. vl supra.

He wrote the notes of his sermons, &c.—p. 39.

And most of them twice over ; the first short, and, as he would call it, the bunesof his wrmons. Life of P. Henry by Matth. Henry. Ori. MS.

See Ot>servatinns on some Specialties of Divine Providence m the Life of Bishop Hall. Works, v^- 1- P- xxxiv. ed. 1806. Mr. Baxter, noticing the objection, as put by the Quakers,—Vou read your sermons out of a paper, therefore you liave not the Spirit,—says, ft is not want of your abilities, that makes miuisteniuse notes, but it is a regard to the work, and good of the hearers. I use notes as much as any man, when I take pains; and as little as any man, when I am Ut\, or busie, and have not lei Mire to prepare. It is easier to us to preacii three sermons without note-i, than one, with them. He is a simple preacher, that is not able to preacli all day without preparation, it his strength would serve; especially if he preach at your rates. Church Hutory, 4to. IGBO. p. 471.

God gave him six children,—p. 43.

Philip Henry was born at Whitehall, Aug. 24,1631, London. Katha-.ffine Mathewcs, was born at Broad-Oke, March 25, 1629.

Philip Henry and Katharine Mathewes were married at White-well Chapel, April 26, 1600.

And had issue, which are the heritage of the Lord, John Henry, bom at Worthcnbury, on Friday, May 3, 1661, aboot 5 of the clock in the evening, -f

Matthew Henry, born at Broad Oke. on Saturday, Oct. 18, 1662, about 3 of the cUxrk in the rooming.

Sarah Henry, born at Broad Oke, on Lord's day, Aug. 7, 1664, about sun-sett.

Katharin Henry, born at Broad Oke, on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1665, about one of the clock in the morning.

Eleanor Henry, born at Broad Oke, on Tuesday, July 23,1667, about two of the clock in the afternoon.

Ann Henry, born at Broad Oke, on Wednesdsy, Nov. 25, 1668, about eleven of the clock in the forenoon. P. Henry. Orig. MS.

He put his children to write these expositions,—p. 47.

I had almost forgot to mention the practice of my dear friend and correspondent, Mr. Henry, spoken of in the last chapter: t (which I am very unwilling to omit. Because I would provoke myself, and others, to some degree of emulation in the case:) besides his exercine on the Lord's days, mentioned before, every day of the week his custom was every morning and nisht to read a chapter to his (iimily,and expound it distinctly and clearly, and after singing a palm, and prayers, toap. point his children to n*tire by themselves, and write over a copy of his Exposition; by which means, as himself once told me, every one of his children, tn« in number, (one son, and four daughters,) had the

See Margrave's State Trials. ▼. 4. p. SIO. f I was then at Chester, but God was bare, at Worthenbury, a preaaat help, P. Henry. Diary. Orig. MS. Z See note, in next column.

ExpodtioD of the whole Bible by them, writtea i»ith their oim This custom he kept up constantly in hia own home §ar wT ' if not airave thirty years, together, without any intermiUi in cases of absence from home, which happened but addom. History of Remarkable Providences, cb. Izvi. p. 83. til

He would never be persuaded, flee—>p. 47.

Mr. Orton, in his copy of the Life, and from which hia cditiao of it was printed, hss written here. ** This bis wish was fulfilled to the st most, by his son, Mr. Matthew Henry, in hia well.koowB and cxeci. lent Exposition of the Bible." Orig. MS. The beat edition appcanl in 1828, in 3 large vols. 8vo. published by J. O. RoWnsoii, «l, Poultry. An esteemed living author, noticiogr M. Heory's Con. ment. says, " Others may excel it in profound diacoaaioii, in andeat lore, or elaborate criticiaro; but none has yet equalled it in the is. ffenuity, the richness, and the beauty of its practical reflactiaia This book should have a place in every Chriatian femiiy.** SketdMi of Life and Character, by the Rev. H. Belfrage, [now D. D] p. 42.

The proper gesture for prayer,—p. 47.

One would think that no body should be so abaurd as to dislike the gesture of kneeling in prayer. But because I have aeene with miae eyes, and that not seldome, whole troo|M of men and women, and tboae not of the meanest, in the time and place of divine serrice, while any. ers and supplications were made unto God, tit all the while, I think not altogether need lease, to free the gesture of kneeling in God's wordiifL from all auspition of superstition. And that by precept, pnict Jce,tM reason ; for precept, taxe the words of the Pmlraist, O coaie, Ift as worship, and fall dotrve, and knede, before the Lord our Maker. Ps. xcv. 6. For practice, we will looke upon the farest president. Our bles Ncd Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ kneeled down, nndpraped. Luke xxii. 41. If men will be ruled by reaaoo they will not, wbai they are to petition the Kine of kings, omit such a gesture of ho. mility, as kneeling is, beinsr the most suitable for a nun at his pray, ers. God's Holy House and Service, by Foulke Roberta, pp. 78, Tk «l tvpra.

Mindful of providences,—p. 48.

A new parliament to be chosen. My dear father UJOially prayed at such occasions that God would be seen in elections, that nithftil men might be chosen. Mrs. Savage's Diary. Orig. MS.

He closed his sabbath work. Ice.—p. 50.

His friend and pupil, the Rev. W. Turner, has thns preserved Mr. Henry's habit*. " Before I went to the University, from the montn of August, till the latter end of February following, I was a boarder in the house of one Mr. Philip Henry, where I had the opportunity of observing his manner of liiie and coovemtion. He was formerly sta-dent of Christ Church, in Oxford, Junior of the Act, Capbin to Judee Puleston, and Minister of Worthenbury. But afterwards not conforming, he married an heiress, and lived at Bruad.Oke, in Hanmer Parish, in Flintshire. Bishop Wilkins sent twice for him in my tine, with a design to draw him over to conformity, as he liad done nssny of his brethren before in his own diocess. Dr. Bridgman, Bishop of Man, and his successor, at Worthenbury, spoke very honourably of him to Major Trevers and me, at his own table at Chester. Bi«i)op Fell, of Oxford, lamented his going oif from tlie communion of the Church of England, as by law established; and the present learned and ingenious Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry * is ready to give an honourable testimony to his sincerity, I doubt not, (having some know, ledge of the correspondence between them.) This man (ever since I knew him, and whilst I was his neijhbour) was careful to rise early ta Sunday mornings, to spend a itinsiderable portion of his time io his {irivate devotions and preparations, then to come down and call his amily together, and, after some short pre|mratory prayer, to sing a Psalm, (commonly the 100th,) and then read some part of the Sacred Scripture, and expound it very largely and particularly, and at last kneel down with all his family and pray devoutly; with particular referenoes to the day anddutiea of it, and the minister that was to ofll< ciate. After which, a short refection fur breakfiist, he made hute to church, and took care that all his family that could be spared, should go in due time likewise: sometimes he was before the preacher, and often before the rest of the congregation ; fas once particularly, when I gave them a sermon in that place, he ana I walked together a considerable time before the people came ;) he l>ehaved hinoself reverently and very gpravely in tiie church during the service; stood up commonly at prayers, and always, in my time, wrote a sermon after the minis, ter: when the mornine' service was ended, he commonly invited the minister to dine with him, who seldom refused ; and many others, who either lived at a distance, as Mrs. Hanmer, Sir Job Charletoo'a daugh-t4'r, married to a Justice of Peace in that country ; or else such as were poor and needy. His discourse homewards was sweet and spiritual; at table it was seasoned as well as his meat; edifying, and yet pleasant, and taking; never wild or offensive. After meat, ana thanks returned, they commonly (I think constantly) before departure from table, sung the 23rd Psaim. Sometime after, when the servants had dined, he pro. pounded to such guests as he thought in prudence he shuuld not be too free with, to retire into the parlour for a while, till he had attended upon his fiuoaily, repeated over the sermon, and prayed with

• Dr. Lloyd. La Neve's Fasti, p. 126. ut sufrm.

NOTES.

217 ter which he returned to his guests ofirain, and UriDg enter. ;m with soine diort discourse, he retired awhile himself, and i called upon his family to go to church. After evening ser. «rmon ended, he retired sjiin till six o'clock, (then called rs, catechised, took an account of children and lervants of f remembered at church, which accounts were given some-y largely and particularly,) sung a Psalm, kneeled down to which co DsistacI more of praise and benediction than at other d at last his children kneeling d<iwn before him, (to beg his he blessed them all, and concluded tite service of the day 123rd Psalnn; save that after supper, he retired for about Mir more into bis study before bed time. Sometimes after ic service ended at church, he gave some spiritual instnic-prcached in his house to as many as would come to hear i in his last years, when the incumbents grew careless in pro-pplles for two or three neighbouring churches and chapels, copic cried out for lack of vision, he set up a constant mmis. d preaching at home, never taking any thing by way of re. lis pains, unless with a purpose to give it away to those who reater necessities." Turner s History of Remarkable Provi. I. Ixv. p. 80. Hi tufra.

Religion, &c. did prevail,—p. 64. d's Hi!(tory, vol. ii. p. 5&3. tt< twpta. A sensible writer, with • reference in view, has remarked,—" It hath been intimated tii Kiorians, that the religion of these tiroes was all hypocrisy nu Uiion. The cenmire itself i» ignorant and uncharitable. ^ and di>«iraulation there might be among them, but I should net;, in our day, such an appearance of religion." Religious recommended by Job Orton, p. 230. duod. 1769. A similar is Imrne by Mr. Baxter, Reliq. Baxter, part i. p. 07. can* ago family religion was a fashiunable thing. You could >ng some streets without liearing psalms sung, kc. but now it y neiflected, but becnme reproachable. Men are ashamed of - are forced to retire for fear of bein;; made a proverb and re-Sermon by Dr. Benion. See anU p. 8. Nov. 1702. From the \t%. Tylston, Mr. P. Henry's tiecond daughter.

Christmas day,—p. 54. irious collection of facts and customs respecting Christmas, in Dljnervations on Popular Antiquities, v. i. p. 350, &c. In h Houses of Parliament issued an order for the obwrvaiice of f day as a day of fasting,->" because it may call to remem-ir sins, and tli ••iiis of our forefathers, who have turned this tending the memory of Christ, into an extreme forgetfulness ly giving litierty to carnal and sensual deli((hts, being con-he life which Christ led here on earth, and to the spiritual life in our souls, for the sanctifying and saving whereof God was K>tb to take a human life, and to lay it down again." Rusli. 5. p. 817. Some time afterwardt, this was succeeded by an r for abolishing the observation of Christmaa as a festival al> Neal's History, v. iii. p. 390. In 1663, Mr. Henry thus no. return of the season. " Dec. 24. As busy as people are to heir houses for Christnus, so much more busy slionld I be to ay heart for Christ. 25. No preaching at chapel, (vix. Wbite-lel, where he attended wlien silenced,) wherefore I stayed at iking no conscience of the day as a day to be kept holy, for livine institution." Diary, Orig. MS.

All the parts of public worship,—p. 57. ning a practice not uncommon in public wonhin, he thus I himself;—"Secret prayer is that which is performed be-d and ourselves alone, which no eye or ear is a witness to, 35. Act* X. 9. Of this our Saviour speaks, Matt. vi. 5, 6. ice we derive a word of reproof to those who visibly address ^s to secret prayer in the public congregation. Such are so shutting the door, that they rather throw it wide open, which Jesus plainly condemns as savouring of hypocrisy. It is not ul, but necessary to lift up our hearts to God in prayer, men. r enlargement to him that speaks, for a blessing upon liis or. o our souls, and vet so as to do it without those external ex-of worship, kneeling, 4cc. which, if we were alone, we might t indeed to noake use of, but before others, we may and ought r." P. Henry. Orig. MS. See BaxUr's Christian Directory, )uest. cxxi. Practical Works, v. 5. p. 490. oct. ed.

Submit to be re-ordained,—p. 5& liq. Baxter. Part. iii. p. 38. And " A petition for peace with mation of the liturgy, as it was presented to the Right Bisliops, by the Divines, appointed by His Majevty's Com-»treat with them about tite alteration of it." pp. 2, 3,10. 4to. »e Petition fur Peace is styled by the Author of the Con. Pica for the Nonconrorniistii, " most humble, grave, and I." Third Plea, p. 18. See also CaUmy's Life of Howe, p. 39.

TIm Savoy Conference^—p. 58. ing of a corlain number of Bisliops and Presbyterian Di. vfftiie of a Commission, granted by King Charles, «iate«l 2j||i i6l, to couauli respecting tlie ezpediaicy uf making alterations in the Liturgy. As to the altermtioos and additions made, see NichoH's Prefiice to bis Comment on the Book of Common Prayer, p. z. A list of the individuals employed in the alterations, may be seen in Dr. D'Oyley's Life of Archbishop Sancroft, r. 1. p. 112, fcc. and a full account of the whole, with the exceptions and proposed al. terations, is preserved in Reliq. Baxter. lib. 1. part ii. p. icb, &c.

He never took the Covenant,—p. 59.

This document appears at length in Fuller's Church History, b. xi. p. 201.

Mr. Henry's Diary contains the following memoranda:— " 1061, May 27. I saw an order from the House of Lords, for burning the Covenant.--See Jer. xxxvi. 23, .11—which was done, in Loodtm, by the common hangman. May 22nd.

" June 18. Tlie lords* order for burning the Covenant was hanged up in the church by Mr. Puleston's appointment, near the leading, deak.

June 23. Strong reports I should not be suffered to preach to-day, but I did, and no disturbance, blessed be God, who hath mine enemies in a chain. I took down the lords* order, knowing no authority but malice that caused it to be hanged where it was." Orig. MS.

Came to Broad Oak,—p. GO.

A house standing near the road.side. between Whitchurch and Wrexham, and situate in the township of Iscoid, in Flintshire, within the parish of Malpas, in Cheshire. See Tong*s Life of Matt. Henry, p. 2. ut nipra. The Broad Oak es Ute was Mr. Henry*s property. The oaks in the immediate neighbourhood, but on premises held by lease from Mr. Hanmer, from which the residence was denominated, seem to have been aAerward* an occasion of dispute. " 1710-11, May 2. Heard from Broad Oak that Mr. Hanmer has cut down the le»ier of the grest oaks. I wrote to him about it." " May 5. I hear Mr. Han. mer, when m letter was brought in, would not receive it, or read it, but ordered it to be burnt, and the great oak to be cut down, though he had promised Mr. Key it should not. I would learn to take wrong. I have reason to think be could not justly do it** " May 14. The broad.oak was a week in falling.*' Matt. Henry's Diary, Orig. MS. A new dwelling-house, and also, in part, new oiit-houses, have been erected on the site of the premises where Mr. Henry's house stood, so that there is nothing now left of former appearances, unless a portion of the garden wall, and part of the out-buildings. These may fairly be presumed to have been contemporary with the renowned occupier. The "Chapel Barn," as it is denominated, was taken down about twelve years ago; the cushion used in the pulpit is in the possession of the present tenant.

Provide a dwelling for them,—p. 61.

In one of Mr. Henry's Diaries is the following record;—" 1063. July

7. A day of prayer at Mrs. F with much sweetness. Lord, liear, and have mercy. Is. xvi. 4. much upon my heart. Zet tnj/ outcattg dwell ttith thee Moab. 1. God's people may be an outcast people; when men cast them out of their synagogues, out of their country. 2. God will own his people when men cast them out: my outcasts. 3. God will provide a dwelling for his outcast people. 4. Even Moab, an enemy, shall be a shelter to God's people, when the Lord speaks the word." Orig. MS. See the Rev. Matt. Henry's Comment. Id Ioc. Similar instances occur in that invaluable work.

One of the martyrs,—p. 61.

Mr. John Rogers. Fox's Martyrol. pp. 98—106. fol. 1684. Fuller's Church History, cent. xvi. b. viii. p. 23. ui supra.

Imputed to him as his crime,—p. 62.

To the assertion that Mr. Henry's attendance at a meeting for prayer " was imputed to him as a crime," Dr. Wordsworth, in his edition of the life,* has appended the following note. " His crime was disobeying an Act of Parliament."

This so directly affects Mr. Mattliew Henry's statement, and his venerable father's impressions, as, evidently, to render some remarks necessary. They proceed from a conviction that the biographer is cor. rect, ana are offered with unaffected respect.

The great point, it u apprehended, upon which Protestantism, not to mention nonconformity, rests, may be thus stated. Have any Popes, however renowued, any Parliament, nowever wise, any synods or coun. cils, however select, or any church, however ancient or devotional, su. fireme authority t in matters of faith and practice; or can they make hat unlawful, which, in its own nature, is right? If not, there could, in the instance before us, be no criminality, it is conceived, in non. compliance ^'^POX '"^ '^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^' peace of the world, and the prosperity of undenfed religion, if the principle, thus negatived, had never struggled for domination. To the praise of heavenly mercy, in. deed, it is now no longer considered a crime in our fiivoured country, * Ecd. Biogr. v. 0. p. 936. t See Bishop Stillingfleet's Irenicum, p. 118. ut svfra. t I believe that he that obeyeth not a law which was made aipunst God's law, or without authority given by him, sinneth not against authority. Kichard Baxter's Answer to Dr. Edward Stillingflect's Cbaree of Separation, p. XX. 4to. 1660. kc uu LubIg ibig rihu of vniy ChruliiD. ITuIn' llw Briluh lekl*- cnltd mRIiug.bDU*, ii in tlw irry picdbcU of cctloiuliol rule. Nor would one of Ihc luliat. niirt ]i«*c(*blt. and loyal of mm. wtn he Dov iliTc, be dtpiiiwd a( hii libnt). euniocd u * ftlnn, lod no. bimhidmptcttolhela HorhltGod. cOBiidErcd, Ihi cinni. it ii Ibought, will be the caDTiitiou Hut Mr.

Now It ii eThlrat tint tlw Bible, whicli u the fuide of F ovtaioa DO laihoriiT liir leie>*1*ti€>n u to divine wanhip, lite to in aecfiuiilmhlc rmtuie wheiB he iIibII render lli* hoinaicc re-qiiind b; lin Cntlnr,—vhtlbet in ■ bouie, « t ettbedtil, with t pnjrer.book, or witliout, with fi»e perwim or a null inimbn-,—hii

IHrtiea to whom Ihe ehccaliob of nrh lawn ia intniated, Itrj un>D co DariFDIioii* oleetnrB tji Ihetr inipoaitiona Ihe »?«*< penaltiet, Ihey

1 trnnek Jewe Ckriit. I ninal t Tliry anwered. " We atsU to nt« Oid rot Afr if tny] may be nllcd a nalii'ial nHiim, and Ihat'the'^d' r Ihe ^cat child that cube made to undenrtandUMIerau, iBDUUHnt Id the truth or thej>r<i|>o>ltiaD, ■• readily iithey petrelte tlial twouid two Bike lour. How ilrangi Ihni it it, tint men oftbe ■nateft iiattf and pewetiation in other tliinn, *i irtdiini reci-i<e it. Tliere arc few period* to be fiinnd, even in the Cliriitian rliurch, io which then wlto itcadUy acted upon tbii princinle, were not con-•id«*d u heretiea of the worfl nn.'-l

Let an inntiHX be Hibmillcd, Buppoae my indi Tidualt. rron ater-•iiHi to • nrlain cliaa of their fellow.tiiljccte, and nppoiition Io their ihouid pray •Ine for Ihirty dayijor that In inite of every thine dirin* at to Ilia '- coi DiniinioD of Binu^" oily n imny. bowtnr einllent, •hould pnt lotfelhir. NslwilhiludhK their dectee, oik and inotlirr of Uwnctlee "kHdaad pny, aad (in tlnnki unto Ond •> brf«," oaet UnikiagHchliw. Sanm Hum to be uprehewled nd nuniilHd. Ow it be credited that Ilieir via were rt Mrinil,« Hat tin were pwriihedfordnbedieai'elothekw! Truait in, without tlie»Uf«ia nially obvinw tiiat Ihcrrime waa pnyine. and thai ilielr mune IwiuR kbnwo, the law wai framed u a hwr. and •• a ■nctnii Sw penal In. aicli Dntl "TlieM wui time," aya Ihr nnatablg epinropalian abnve qaoled. rel«r>ii|; to Mr. Hrory't daya. " wlieii ilie na BciAfarnMi Kraned Dadrr tlie iron tod o( opprewoa, and were rxgnied to flnet, |irnalliei,aKd nnprinnuiHt, aa wril ai InrrDel morkininandthe lew. lew law of a raliUe,/or HVTfhIpplBS Gai accenUnB '• t*« '<»*' 'I thtir ronititntt: V.A I apprrhi their nnnnxifonily wa. nih tbcomunoil. tad Meniibk. Iliao Ibereaf, raueof tliE iiard treat.

The Una tbn appwt to be, ta rialed by Mr. Hittliew Henry, that prayini with ulhcii waa fi»aM to liii fithcr ai a crime; the matter nf flie bw heini: li Drul, the rrimioilily waa llierr, and not in hit ron. duet.** nitIWHgoad.tadDn«pDiiir(Utempnnl puiilthnKnIiaHlId make it otlwrwiw, an* more Uaui tlie ae Terei* human dnnnriationi tan nnder obrdleace to intiinvd prttrriniioni liable to elernt) ten-««HU. Akd, wbat HilhUHSerlptnre! Wkm tiro er Ihrtt mniia. Uenrlli>«UFrliiii»«n(.Mrr«ui/larXrH(Maft*ni.tt "fle ■yj ?"*•].'f •"■ I™'' «>n..reter HiiK In bin divine i>re(tnnalall timrt

Spiril. to mmmiipicalF bJEtiiqto hit peopl?. ujleiitfiier, orir Afrmr, Jtvuy, Diary, urii. Kt.

Kmewudl mice, be aulnectcd to any invenl Kilii. or impoaitliiDt, howc rlirittiin,—the nnc t ttarT diiti Dctwn bctwrtn right udwtui|waiU be cnnfouoded,—the Refornulioo fF«n Pupery would need wttM Tindiration, - Ine Purltaot, ioatead of detcrviag euluutic adu would b« canble of adracacy,—and even criraioalily originated, nal-■ithntnding tpait.itic eIlH>rtalilHI t b. adlwriag to f*e Utrb ahtrtrUK ChritI imth made Ala ptrnte /ra. t

Let not lb* matter ne Terlhetat fie mimuxircd, Tbe deniititf nugiiletial control erer cwnicienc* and religion, doe* not intriat* upon authority in ritil ■Sain. Conacientioui penoiu eaprriaUy, tad n«ltr camidetatiao, ner feci tbe laircdnes of divine injaoctioDi. Aad, ui-twithitanding Chriit reinii in the linrtt lud eoaaciennw of taiilnie lolgecu, " Die pHnm of tliii world," to borrow llie appropriaH ^

SMoflbclateadaiiral rector of Alton Sudlbrd, "haTC uottaiagtt Irom the obedience of Chrltlitot to hit authorit*. Hia ■truli are rommandtd to render trlbuu to whoa Iribote ii dub bownr ta wlmn buoour. In submit Id Ihe powert tint be. to fear Ood and Ihr

It the iiinc time. iSej) nuiat oiry Cod ral Ser Utaa hh. latea aia ill ga Id bim, ti il it probable Mr. Bcny bid 1, called the " Eieqny.*'

Sec that Ihoa make thy rackning atnight. And yield her luck again by welahl. For lliou muil audit on thy Imit Each giain and atom of Ihii dual.

ly approach, tell It lut ^t'don'l

The word Caain

iOra. tccudiag tc

. _ ._.. . I.*rtutint tiiciktor lh< riinrrh, where Ihe ChrMitn met. And Amabi Nee Blagliam-a WorkiL ml. % p. glO. M npn. lot lent tlia derrer of the fourtli General Council of IMeiu, A. D. nlU Oneratlciila celebnnteK. f ■•■"-■■■■ the Emiicrort'praclamaliaa, the pnce* wntr* t-nritnana tTttlcdt* li Dblirnnyer, we RalMOKmilirln. Tbe Honilk p. Stt « ■■■ pni. Tbe third part of the Homily Mainit peril of idolatry.

In the art louclinuC Hfreliei. 9 lien. IV. c. It. Prelrtttnl* are. by the then Popiili GonnriMnl, raiimntcd aa. " A cotain new wl, of Ihe faith of th* wramenti of the church, and Ihe aulhorily of tbe nmc damnably UilnkiHi" and the ttatute alle that •'oriwh wicked dorlrine and oPiiiona, tliey make nnlawful OimrtmHela ai ronfrncioi tliey hold and eiercitc acboolti they make and wiite boaki; thrydowickedly initmet tud inform people." Biduplb. ton't Oideic. 1.1. n. aS. W npro.

Tile venenUe conpnttra of the Hoodliea eridenllr uanl tlw trm favnunhly, •■ Ln." lay Ihey. " unto llie liaie of CooiUntiue, by thi mtt of above three hundred ycara after our Kaviour Cbrbi. whrn Clirltlian irligiim wu nw< puie. and indeed golden, Chridiini had bnl law and poor CuKudcfea, and linple ortlariei. yea. caret under tlie ground, calicd cryptK, where Ibcy, |iir fear of ncrtecutioa, aBcni-bled aecrell vto Eether. A figure whereof remainelh in th* viulbi. wkirb old ttaleof llie primitive church brfore ContlaBIine." Hanilia, nl npro, p. sas.

Afterwiidt, indeed, the epithet waa applied by Ihe Church al England bencU to thoc of her felh>w.pratettanta, in tbt ITIb rvn. thcr reformitiim, partially withdrew from ber tommuaion, and were icruitomed, in ronan,uei>n of tlwir liabililien to ca■vtn if tbey at-mbled for dieine worthip at all, hi earb otlirr't btbiaiioot. Suth r dieine «<>nhip at lUpplKU bv atatulory en: ppreai aeJiHHHeaiivciit ical deni

NOTES.

219 of SdiMD, in tbii vol. Henceforward the phraK, " tedUUmi eonven. tide," was rendered permanently expre Hive,* id order that, by an ioocndo of sedition, the meeting together of fire or more persona of the age of sixteen yean, " in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England," might be fully ob-ttrocted.

In connexion with the conaequences, an eminent clergyman made a remark not very favourable to the parties. " See," said he, " the piety of annoe of our supprewors of Conventicle*. Preachers are threatened with hanginir, and the death of traytors; they pull down a pulpit to set up healthing in it; tear the pulpit, distrain and sell the Bible to choose, when they miht have made choice of other." The Conformist's Fourth Flea, ut ntprOt p. 76.

The tubjert cannot be dismissed without observing, that Bishop Latimer, at the commencement of one of his sermons, before King Edward, dtf nates the Chapel Royal a " preaching place in the palace at Wevtraittster ;"-f or, according to subfle<]uent parlance, a Conventicle. " And," says Fuller, " no diqpace is imported in the notation of tlie word; Conventicle soundins; nothing else but a tmall convention."' Church History, b. ix.p. 102. ut supra. See Memoirs of the Rev. Joha Shower, by W. Tong, pp. 49, 50. oct. 1716.

Whence not to curry favour, 8cc.—p. 66.

This remark has attracted Dean Wordswortirs notice, (see Eccl. Bi<^T- vol. vi. p. 3.36.) as tbouffli, coupling it with the statement of an imputation of crime, already discu Meil, it was intended to suit some mysterious purpose. What the iuueudo was meant to accomplish, is best known tit its learned author ; but, judiing impartially, as Mr. M. Henry's representation ia no departure from the simple verity, so it Wbuld he oniair to surrender his reputation to any thing abort ol proof. And sorely it Unot presumptuous to inquire,

—— Who can blot that name

With any just reproach?

Subjection to government,—p. 66.

Calvin In his chapter on Civil Government, says, " To entertain a thought of its extermination is inhuman barbarism; it is equally as necenary to mankind as bread and water, light and air, and far more excelleot." Institutes, v. 3. p. 518. Allen's Translation.

All thia and heaven too,~p. 70.

See an anecdote, very similar, in the Christian's Magasine, vol. 1. p. 902. oct. 1700.

Mr. William Turner,—p. 71.

See Mr. Chalmers's Biog. Diet. v. xxx. p. 100. In Mr. Henry's Diary are the following memoranda.

1668. Ausr. 26. William Turner came to winter with us, and to teach tiie thildren."

" 1671, Feb. 24. William Turner went from os towards Oxford, haV' ing smoumed with us, for the most part, since August last, in which time he entered Katy in reading English, and Sarah in Hebrew. I pcay Ood preserve him from University sins and snares."

Feb. 27. Jos. Mainwaring went with William Turner to. wards Oxford. The Lord prosper their studies, and keep them frum preaeat sins and snares." Orig. MS.

Time discovered,—p. 73.

Namely, the King's disposition to support the Roman Catholic at the expense of the Protestant interest. Dr. D'Oyley's Life of Arch-bishop Sancroft, v. i. p. 158, &c. and the Gent. Mag. v. 31. p. 253. wlicre tlie Address, presented by the Dissenters, on that occasion, was first printed.

Spent in the work of the Lord,—p. 7a Must we have no relsxationt We are servants to Christ, not slavea. The how always t>eut becomes useless. Though wc are ministers, we arr men, therefore we need food, and physic, and friends to visit. Divinity excludes not humanity. But all should be made subservient to our work. As, if our people love any creature more than Christ, titey will he lost for ever; so, if we love and follow any pleasure more than oar people, we fail in duty. We must prop the earthen vessel, but it is that it may hold the treasure, and so far as is useful. We must be merry with onr peonle in all civility, that they may be cheer, ful with us in all religion. Mr. Porter, at an Ordination. From a MS. in P. Henry's band-writing.

First spoken to the offender,—^. 78. This rule is prominently noticed by the late Ambrose Serle, Esq. in

Sec the 16tti Charles II. c. 4. and CCd Charles II. c. 1. Walker had 4t an earlier period (A. I>. 1649) applied the term to the House of Com-HiotM. styling it. the better to inspire odium, a " frishted Conventicle." Hisiory of Independency, part ii. p. 167. 4to. 16t9.

Sermooa, p. 24. M tirm. his excellent Manual, '* The Cliristian Remembrancer," part iii. c xiv. p. 276. oct ed. 1823. An edition enriched by an introductorv essay from the pen of Dr. Chalmers. '

They are not lost, &c.—p. 79,

1 bus Mr. Rutherfoord, writing to John Gordon, remarks;—*' Your bairns, now at their rest, are not lost to you; they are laid up in Christ's treasury in heaven. At the resurrection ye shall ii eet with them there; they are sent before, but not sent away." Religious Letters, ut supra. Letter 25. p. 35. Again, addressing " Lady Gaitgirth " he say,-" If vour Lord lake any of them [your bairnsj home to his house before the storm comes on, take it well; the owner of the orchard may take down two or three apples off his own trees before Midsummer, and ere they get the harvest sun; and it would not be seemly that his servant, the gardener, should chide him for it • let our Lord pluck his own fruit at any season he pleaseth. They are not lost to you; they are laid up wliere our Lord's best jewels lie." Letter 76.

I I. 95. ib. And, addressing Lady Keomure, he writes;—" Ye have ost a child; nay, she is not lost to you who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but onlv tent before; like unto a star, which, going out of our sight, doth not die, and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere." Part 2. Letter 4. p. 252. ib. See the Gardener and Rose Tree, a Fable, addressed to Mrs. H. on the Death of her Child, by the Rev. S. Pearce. Memoirs of Mr. Pearce, by the Rev. A. Fuller p 247 oct 1808. »r- •

Not to be obeyed merely because they were laws,—p. 85.

In Queen Mary's time there was a law to go to mass, &c. But, saith T. P. you do not compare this law with that No, saith Mr. Henry, God forbid; but I only mentioned it, to show that all human laws are not to be obeyed merely because they are laws. Life of P. Henry bv Matt. Henry. Orig. M ' '

An illustration is furnished by the vacillations of religion, as by law established, in England. Four alterations were crowded, during one period of our history, into the short space of fifty years. Popery, on the accession of King Henry the Eighth, A. D. 1509, was dominant; snd, in 1533, eavc way to Protestantism. In 155.3, Popery was again the religion of the sUte. In 1558, Mass was abolished, and the Liturgy of King Edward restored. Mr. Henry, it is likely, had this sUte of things in view; and, if his doctrine be incorrect, it must have been criminal to luive done otherwijie than go with the stream.

The times, says the witty •• Prebendarie of Sarura," under Diorle. slap, were Pagan; under Constantine, Christian; under Constantius. Arian; under Julian, Apostate; under Jovian, Christian asain ; and all within the aire of man, the term of seventie years. And would it not have wrenched and sprained his soul with short tuminsr, who, in all these, should have been of the religion/or the time being 1 Fuller's Holy State, p. 200. ut nipra.

Beza published an answer to the railings of Francis Baldwinus, who followed the steps of Eceboliu«, both of them teaching,—that men might change their religion as tlie state changed. Clarke's Marrow of Eccl. Hist. p. 8H0. ut supra. Cicero says, Nihil tam absurdum, quod non dictum sit ab aliquu philusophorum.

Dispersion of the French Protestants,—p. 80.

In consequence of the revocation of the edict of Nantz, nearly fifty thousand refugees pas Med over into England, and were so many prool in addition to numberless others, that " persecution," as His Majesty King Charles the First well observed, " never was, nor will be, found a good way for conversion." Earl Clarendon's State Papers, v. 2. p. 267. It would furnish a source of interesting, as well as curious, employ, ment, to collect the various exhibitions of the evil of intolerance, and the dangers to which its instruments are exposed. Without recurring to the primitive ages of the Church, the space from the Reformation to the period respecting which Dr. Doddridtre urred, with so much force, '' the absurdity and iniquity of persecution for conscience sake, in all its kinds, and degrees," '•' would supply ample materials, ana which, placed together, would display a succession of reasoning, and illustration, almost as varied as the pens employed in their composi. tion. One, and not a little curious, occurs in a srarce volume, entitled, " A Rare Sight; or, the Lyon Sent from a Far Country, and presented to the City of Norwich; in a Sermon, June 18, 1650, by John Carter, pp. 105—108. duod. 1653." Mr. Carter was the gentleman to whom the letter for promotinsr the London Polyglott Bible was addressed, by Archbishop Usher, Dr. Walton, and others, as preserved in the Life of Dr. Pocock. Works, by Twells, v. 1. p. 47. ttf supra.

He doth not love you of the Church of England neither, ~p. 94.

Mr. Henry's opinion was expressed by the Quakers to the King him. self in their Address on his accession. " We are come to testify our sorrow for the death of our good friend Charles, and our joy for thy being made our governor. "H e are told thou art not of the persuasion of the Church of England no more than we ; therefore, we hope that thou wilt grant us the same liberty which thou allowest thyself." Rapin's History of England, v. 15. p. 8. ed. 1731.

Doddridge's Works, vt nyi-^, v. 3. p. 117, &c See Bishop Hoadley'a Works, v. 3. p. 763. ttt aufrm.

NOTES.

Books miiiMt Popery,—p. 9&.

A letrned antiquary, the Rev. Francta Peck, published in 4to. 1735, "A Complete Catalogiie of all the DiscoTirses written, both for and against Hopery, in the time of King James II.; containing, in the whole, an Account of Four Hundred and Fifty.seven Books and Para. phletM." See Palmer's Vindication, ch. iv. p. 31. 4to. 1706, for " the true reason why Dissenters terit no more against Popery in the reign of James II." Also, see Popery a Spiritual Tyranny, in this vol.

Orertores noade towards a comprehension,-'p. 104.

Two similar attempts had been before made. The first by Sir Or. Undo Bridgman, in 1667-8. A full account of the whole, and the pro. posed alterations, is recorded In Reliq. Baxter. Part. III. pp. 33—38. ut tupra. The second, by Dr., afterwards Archbishop, Tillotson; and Dr., afterwards Bishop, ^illiugfleet, in 1674. Reliq. Baxter. Part iii. p. 167, &c. Birch's Life of Archbishop Tillotson, p. 43, &c.

As to the comprehension more immediately referred to, see Dr. D'Oyley's Life of Archbishop Sancroft, v. 1. p. 336. and the Hist, of Rel. Lib. v. 3. pp. 182-190.

A comprehension was anin talked of in the year 1748, and an in-teresting letter on the subject, written bv Mr. Barker to Dr. Dod. dridge, noay be seen in the Letters to and from Dr. Doddridge, p. 113. oct 1790.

Hearen and Hell,—p. 109.

Heaven and Hell may be considered <oca//t(,—so it matters not where they be; and, morally, so Heaven is holiness completed; Hell is sin completed. Hence they are set out by the same names; Hell and Min, by darkness, Jude 6. 3 Pet. ii. 4. comp. Eph. v. 8, 11. Prov. ii. 13.—by Death, Rev. xx. 6. comp. Eph. li. 1. Luke xv. 33. Heaven andholtneMg by light, Col. i. 13. comp. Eph. v. 8. bv life, JRom. vi.33, 33. 1 John v. II. romp. I John iii. 14. Luke xv. 32. by glory, 3 Cor. iv. 18. comp. iii. 1& 3 Pet. i. 3. P. Henry. Com. Place Book. Orig. MS.

Thy God, thy sin, thy death, thy Christ, The eternal pains of hell, The joyes of heaven, the day of doome,— These seven, remember well.

" An ancient Minister now with God." See a Treatise on Christian Conference, by Edmund Staunton, D. D. p. 128. daod. 1673; also, the Lives of the Puritans, v. 3. p. 470.

All this be did gratis,<—p. 109.

But few are of ability to do this, and when the power is enjoyed, it is, perhaps, questionable how far, on the whole, it is best to relieve the congregation from the privilege, to say nothing of the duty, of afford, ing a due maintenance. Should a minister, by the kindness of Pro. Tidence, be raised above the need of the supply, still the use of it would enlarge his capacity for usefulness, dissatisfaction towards those who are less supplied with outward blessings would be prevented, and his successor would be neither prejudiced by a feeling of inferiority, nor encumbrance. ** If men held in as dear a regard tlieir immortal souls, as they generally do their corruptible bodies, then would they never basely grudge unto the pastors ot them a liberal affluence of all necessaries : so that no want of worthy respect, nor of time, nor of means, might discourage them from making meet and manifold provision to lead, to feed, to fold, to d«>fcnd their docks." A Liberal! Maintenance is manifttstly due to the Ministers of the Gos|>ell, by Joshua Meene, Vicar of Wyraoiidliam in Norfolke. 4to. 1638. p. 66.

It should he observed, however, that reasons existed, in Mr. Henry's time, for the course he and others of his brethren p'lrsued, which have long ceased; and before a conclusion is drawn from their example, they are entitled to consideration. The charge, for instance, was general, and not confined to a single calumniator; that covetousness was the ground of nonconformity. " Did I gain by nonconformity," exclaims the dignified and benevolent Baxter, " that, from the day that I was silenced, had never taken a groat for preaching, nor ever had a church to maintain me, and had commonly refused even friends' gratuities, (save £10 from one man that I could not refuse,) for many years after this, and, save from few, to this day ? Who, by refusing a Bishopric, and other emoluments, have lost, I think, above twenty, thousand pounds by nonconformity? What answer do these men de. serve?" Penitent Confession, «( tupra. 80, 90.

Mr. Steele, addressing a congregation at an ordination in 1669, thus expressed himself; "Help us with your prayers. Help us in main, tenance, that we who should live to study, may not be put to study to live." From a MS. in Mr. Philip Henry's hand.writing.

Private academies,—p. 113.

There was a Prophet's School at Gilgal, 3 Kings ii. 1. comp. Iv.38; at Jericho, 3 Kings ii. 4, 6; at Bethel, v. 33; at Carmel, v. 36. comp. •V. 33, 36; at Samaria, 3 Kings ii. 36; v. 3; at Ephrairo, 3 Kings v. 23. P. Henry. Orig. MS.

A History of the early Dissenting Academies may be seen in Dr. Toulmin's Historical View, 316-301. ut tupra ; and, at the end of the same volume, a List of the Students. Appendix, No. V. pp. 66if—603. Sec also, the History of Dissenters, vol. 4.

A correct view of the internal arrangement of the Institutions above referred to, may be obtained from a Letter written by Archbishop Seeker. See Dr. Gibbon's Mem. of Dr. Watts, p. 346. and the Works of Dr. Doddridgv, toI. S. p. 559. til anpra. Also, from Dr. Raflks's Life of Mr. Spencer; Appendix, No. L ed. 1813; and the History of Dissenters, vol. ii. p. I, tec.

One who bad been the pnpil of Dr. Benion, obser Tiog that such Academies are by some most maliciously calumniated as nurseries of rebellion and sedition, and hurtful to kings and provinces, ttalesL tlat what insif ht the Doctor thought fit to give his pupils iotoptica, tended to Deget in them not only a satisfaction in, out an admiratioa of, the established constitution of the English GovemroeDt; and be doubted not, but they brought with them, hom his instructions, a true value for monarchy, and as thorough an abhorrence of the cxeciable murder of King Criarles I. as they could have brought from Christ. Church itself. Life of Dr. Benion, in this volume.

Metbinks it is strange, <cc.—p. 119.

Old Mr. Turton, who, in the year 1668, we bad a while at Nantwieh, but who ended his days in Birmingham, when visited by Mr. Btack. more, complained of being left behind by so many of his dear frieadi in Christ; and added;—" It is because 1 am not ready." Mr. Black, more replied;—•' No, Sir; you are left here to help to oiake others ready for heaven." Mrs. Savage's Diary. Orig. MS.

Find Jordan roagfa,—p. 130.

roe tell yon that which I know, vea. foreknow,—Death is some, what drierie, and the streams of that Jordan betweene us and oor Cs. naan runne furiously; but they stand still when the arke commeth. Let your anchor be cast within the vaile, and fiuteoed on the Rocke Jesus. The Life of Bishop Cowper, Works, p. 6. ut cvpro.

Holy Paula,—p. 123.

Widow of Toxotius. She died at Bethlehem, A. D. 404, «t 56. She is celebrated for her piety, and skill in the Hebrew language. Her bounty was immoderate. She took up money at interest to give to the poor, and left her daughter deep in debt; a great charge of brothers and sisters, and nothing to maintain it. " I like not this charitie re. versed, when it begins far off, and neglects those at home. Sure, none need be more bountiful in giving, than the sunne is in shining, which, though freely bestowing his beams on the world, keeps, notwithstand. log, the body of light to himself. Yea, it is necessary that liberality should as well have banks as a stream. Yet, surely. God's glory was the mark she shot at, though herein the hand of her practice did some, time shake, and oftener the eye of her judgment did take wrong aim." Fullers Holy SUte, p. 39, 30. ui tupra.

Playing at cards,—p. 131.

See Archspologia, vol. 8. Nos. xvii. xviii. xviii ♦.

" In that imthense repository of papers," says an eminent writer, " which Thoresby's curiosity had Brathered, was the rough draft of an answer made by the Rev. John KcTliubeck, to an application made by an unknown person whose conscience was disquieted in consequence of having played at cards, and laid a waer: one sentence of this proves him to have been an able and discerning casuist.—Though I do not think it utterly unlawful, yet the circumstanLCs and consequences too often render it so. It would be well if the consciences of the present generation were sufficiently awake to perceive, that, amone these cir. curostances and consequences, are to be reckoned, rapacity, fretful, ness, and waste of time" Loidis and Elmete, by the Rev. T. D. Whitaker, p. 43. See Mr. Joseph Williams's Diary, p. 433. oct 1816.

A celebrated poet, who will not easily be suspected of puritanic in. clinations, satirically exclaims,— See bow the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

Pope's Moral Eenya, Ep. II.

Turned it to his reproach that his meeting.place had been a bam,—p. 349.

See Eiffhteen Sermons by Mr. Henry, p. 307. n. Also Dr. Lem. priere's Univ. Biog. 4to. 1808. in verb. P. Henry.

1694. Oct 36th. The lower bay of the chapel was benched by Wil. liam Evans, for which be had out of the sacrament money, 2U. 6d. P. Henry, Orig. MS.

The Nonconformists generally were reproached for preaching in barns. In noticing which, the Reverend Author of the Conformist'a Plea, remarks, " His Gospel, who was laid in a manger, may be preach, ed in a bam, if there be no room for his preachers in better places." Third Plea, ut tmra. p. 50.

The venerable Archbishop Usher says, ** In times of persecntion, the godly did often meet in Barnt, and such obscure places, which inde«l were public, because of the church of God there; tlie txiise or phct availing nothing to make it public or private; even as, wlieresoever the Prince is, there is the Court although it were in a poor cottage." Cited in Mather's History of New England, book iv. p. 14a Memento hoc agere,—p. 137.

See a most elegant and edifyine volume, entitled, "Thonghts, chiefly designed as Preparative or Persuasive to Private Devotion," by John Sheppard, p. 171. 3nd ed. 1834.

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Advice of the moral phifc Mopheri &c.—p. 137.

See laocntes. Edit Wolf. Bu. 1570. p. 7. c. 30. which Kntence, from the phraie ** morml phik Mopher," and the use of tlie verbft avtinttvt and wirrtvttv, leems here to be referred to, but is itself founded on * frag-awDt of Epichannus, preserved in Dio Chrysostom vepi avurrtat Orat. LXXIV. p. 636. Edit. MorelU

Yta Kot ftfxtnio oiriffTCiv' ap Opa ravra tmv (Pptvmv.

" The Sicilian ^ngg, Epicbarmus, whispered,—Be watchfull. and distrust; for those are the nerves of the mind." Dr. Middleton's Life of Cicero, vol. 1. p. 382. 4to. 1741 ; and note [a].

Gave him a copy,—p. 143.

The venerable Archdeacon Owen, noticing the Polvglott, nys, " One of the two copies of that great work in our school library, was tlie gift of Heath." Some account of the ancient and present state of Shrews, bory, p. 274.

In the Mem. of Bii4iop Walton, vol. 1. p. 269. ii< supra, the donation of Mr. Heath is stated merely as a report. Mr. Heury, who must have known the fact, asserts it above positively. Mr. Todd's representation i% rendered more otiservable, inasmuch as it stands connected with a refcrence to the Life of P. Henry.

He read the liturgj' till, &c.-p. 143.

In Bishop Kennet's Register, vol. 1. p. 820. this statement somewhat vario. It is there said, tliat,—" Mr. Heath, at the persuasion of BisiMp Walton, continued a few Lord's-davs after August 24, 1663, reading tlie Liturgy, but was soon sileuced, because he could not come up to the imposed terms of conformity."

Tlw account is Uken from Dr. Caiaray's Abridgment, and is adopted, without a remark, in the Noncon. Mem. vol. 3. p. 15a Notwithstanding an apparent discrepancy, may not both the ac-eoonts be substantially correct ? Mr. Henry's referring to Mr. Heath's conduct from the Kestoratioo.—Bishop Kennet's, to the same fact, etatimued a little longer than August 24, when the Act of Uniformity, which passed in May preceding, was enforced. A lew only of the ministers who were ejected, it will be recollected, Kd the Liturgy. Mr. Fairclough, who left Keddington in Suffolk, "could and did submit to the use of it, though lie made it not the matter of hi« choice.'* Clark's Lives of Eminent Persons, p. 157. ut ni. rn. And, Mi. Rowland Fogg, (son of Mr. Fogg, ante, p. 23.) " was OMng the first who restored its public use in 1660, and continued the use of it till August, 1662, yet he could not satisfy his conscience to kfcp in his living." Noncon. Mem. vol. 3. pp. 481, 482. Mr. Heath *u like-minded. The continuance of the practice during his pro. koged incumbency at St. Alkmond's is, therefore, probable. lo the Life of Mr. Wyar, who left Chiltern, in Wiltshire, it is re. Barked, that,—'* If the reading of the Liturgy, without declaring un. fagntd assent and consent, would have satisfied the law, he might have continued vicar.** Noncon. Mem. vol. 3. p. 360. A like representa. tim w» applicable to each of those who adopted the Liturgy, but *tre afterwards ejected, as well as to those who disliked its use.

While some seceded early, (Mr. Baxter, for instance, in May, Reliq. dntcr, part ii. p. 384. ui mpra,) most of the nonconformists continued ia their respective churches until tlie statutory limitation had nearly expired. Mr. Heath not onlT did the same, but it is likely remained, ac. eordiog to the statement followed by Bishop Kennet, a few Lord's, ^rs after. Many instances of such continuance may be referred to. See rtjtf. al.) tlie Xives of Mr. Aslihurat, Noncon. Mem. vol. 1. p. 281. Mr. Tapper, ih. p. 357. Mr. Hardy, ib. vol. 2. p. 146. Mr. Crossin, ib. ^ 265. Mr. Creswick, ib. p. 266 Mr. Hawes, ib. p. 293. Mr. Angier, ib. p. 300. And Mr. Truman, ib. vol. 3. p. 93.

It may be noticed, that, immediately after the restoration, the ba-ard of not reading the Common Prayer was peat, and the results costly. See ante, pp. 45, 46; and Fawcett's Life of O. Hey wood, p. 31; also the Livesof Mr. Thoroughgood, Noncon. Mem. vol. 2. p. 342; Mr. Barret, ib. voL 3. p. 103; and Mr. Slater, ib. p. 257.

It would be difficult to find an exemption from trouble between the R«rtoratioa and St Bartholomew's dav, 1662, unless where the Liturgy was used, either in whole or in part. Mr. Heath remained, during that itttcrraljiindisturbed, which strengthens the probabtlitY, that, agreeably to Mr. Henry's assertion, he read the Liturgy, before Au. nsl, 1603. On any other principle it is puxsling to account for his medom from molestation. Mr. Tallents was indulged with like tran. ^Uity; and Mr. Matthew Henry expressly says, that, " when the ting was restored, in the year 1660, he (Mr. T.) intinoated his readi-•ess to con farm, as fiu' as he could, Ice. He therefore read (as I think I have been tdd) some puis of the Liturgy at that time." Life of Mr. TaOents, appended to his Funeral Sermons, in this vol.

Theoaly point of difference between the two narratives seems to be. —ia Mr. Heath reading, according to Mr. Henry, till August 24, and then being silenced;—and, according to the register, at the persuasion of Bishop Waltmi, continuing, before actual silence, a few Lord's-davs •ftcr, reading the Liturg:^. Without pressing an inference in Mr. Htnnr's fiivoor from his yicinity to, and intimacy with, Mr. Heath, it ■sjr nirly be obeerred, that his record derives eoofirroation from the ^phraseology adopted by Bishop Kennet. The register does not vj tut Mr. Hcnth rend the Lffnrgy/ron August, but that he con. t**aed a few Lord*a-day« after, rea£ng it; thus implying the previous ''•itit, as mentki Ded by Mr. Henij.

Mr. Henry's notice d the case is perfectly natural; for the silencing, "keeaaK Mr. Benth coold not come op to the imposed terms of con. '"'vuty/* (in idiich both ■Utemciiti aree,) was, in pursuance of the Act, which strictly operated on the Lord's.day preceding the 24th of August. The rigid eflfecta of that statute were warded off in each instance, (and at great peril,) by special favour, which favour terminated, with a few exceptions only, speedily. It will appear less surprising, that the continuance of Mr. Heath, "a few LordVdays after August 24," should not have l>een adverted to, when it is borne in mind, that, in such an occurrence, there was nothing singular. The liabit of reading the Liturgy was more unusual, and was therefore memorialized.

Two objections to the other account present themselves. The register even mistakes the name of the church in which Mr. Heath officiated, St. Mary's, instead of St. Alkmond's. It asserts, also, that Mr. Heath's continuance a few Lord's-days beyond August 24, 16i62, was at the persuasion of Bishop Walton. Bishop Kennet, indeed, properly notices, in the margin, that " Bishop Walton died Nov. 29, 1661 ;" it is added, however, he "yet might resp«^:thim, (Mr. Heath,) and advihe him to church-ctnifonnity." Were the writer to abandon the explanation thus offered, he should, unhesitatingly, determine in favour of Mr. Henry's accuracy. It is conceivMl, that another cir. cumstance, in addition to what has been submitted, would justify such a conclusion. The third and best edition of the Life of Philip Henry, " corrected" by his biographer, was published several years after the promulgation of the account adopted by Bishop Kennet; but, in the statement in question, no alteration was nude. Dr. Calamy's Abridgment appeared in 1702. The third edition of Mr. Henry'^s Life, in 1712. Mr. Tallents, too, who was the fellow.towna-man and associate of Mr. Heath, lived several years after thecircula. tion of Dr. Calamy's statement, with two prior editions of Mr. Henry's Life, published in 1698 and 1699, before him. He had, as we have seen, special communications with Mr. Matthew Henry, relative to the fects introduced intotliat volume. Had, therefore, any inaccuracy crept in, it is difficult to conceive of it remaining unobserved by both of those excellent men,—Mr. Tallents, an acute and indefatigaUe chronologist, snd Mr. Matthew Henry, a vigilant and minute in-quirer after truth.

On the whole, the conclusion seems justifiable, that, notwithstanding Mr. Henrv's silence as to Mr. Heath's lubits after Bartholomew.day, 1662, botn his statement, and that adopted in the register, are en-titltrd to credit. Mr. Henry's, as an account not quite complete, but to the full extent correct; and Bishop Kennet's, or rather Dr. Calamy's, as perfect, evincing Mr. Heath's use of the Liturgy, not only be/ore August 24, 1662, but also for a few Lord's-days after.

Mr. Joshua Richardson, &c.—p. 144.

The same power that displaced Mr. Moore, did, in his stead, place in Myddle Mr. Joshua Richardson, M. A. (Son of Joshua Richardson, of Broughton,) upon condition that he would allow the tythes of Had-nail's Ease, or pay a salary, equivalent to the value thereof, to a preach, ini minister, to be constantly resident in Hadnall's Ease. This Mr. Richardson was an able and laboriouse minister; his whoale im. ployment was about the concemes of his ministry. His wife, beeing a Srudent and careftill woman, managed the rest or his afaires with great iligence and discretion. After the death of Mr. Moore, the Right Honourable John Earle of Bridgewater, (knowing that Mr. Richard, son was well beloved in his parish.) by a certain kind of state amnesty, permitted him to continue minister, on the same termes and condicons that hee was putt in by the Parliament. This Mr. Richardson built that pt. of the psonsge house, which is the kitchen and the romes bee. low it, in which hee made use of soe much of the timber as was left of the barne that fell downe in Mr. More's time. Aftor the restauracon of King Charles the Second, when the act for conformity came ont, Mr. Richardson refuseing to subscribe the declaracon inserted in tlie act concerning the solemne league and covenant, lost his place, and with him fell the minister of Hadnall's Ease.

I had so much intimate acquaintance with Mr. Richardson, that hee would willingly have conformed to the discipline and constitucons of the Church of England. But hee told mee liee could not, with a safe conscience, subscribe to the declaration sninst the covenant; he received the tythes due before Bartholomew.tide, (according to the act of Parliament,) at which time all the ry and wheate was gott in, and someoates. Hee removed to Broughton, where he lived one year with his brother, Captaine Richardson, and afterward went to a ferme called Ditches, neare Wem. But when the Act of Parliament came forth that noe outed minister should live within five myles of the j>lace where he had formerly officiated, hee removed to Alkinton, near Whit-church, (the place from whence bis ftther came when hee had purchased his lands in Broughton, of Mr. Ottey.) Here Mr. Richardson lived a private, peaceable, and pyouse life, exercising himselfe in re-liouse duetyes, and instructing and teaching his owne, and some of his relations' children in good literature. He dyed at Alkinton, and was buried at Whitchurch. Dr. Fowler preached his fnnerall sermon, and therein gave him a deserved commendation. He bequeathed a certaine numuer of bibles, and of thoee books of Mr. Baxter, entitled *' A Call to the Unconverted," to be given to certaine poore people in the parish of Myddle, after his decease: which legacy was faithfully

Srformed by his prudent widdow, ana executrix. Antiquityes and emoyres of the Parish of Myddle, written by Richard Gougb, anno set sue 66. annodomini 1700. MS in folio, pp. 10, II.

The following ely on bis death was written by Mr. Maiden. See ante, p. 146.

Venture, I will, to fix a verse On my dear brother's sable heane. This star did sometimes shine most bright. Although the clouds eclipst his liffht And now he's set, both grief xnd fears. Express tbemsel Tcs in showers of tears.

NOTES.

But, let our hope our erief re Hrain, For he tliall rite mod inine ain. While he doth faalleluialM iin)c, Let ut devout ho Mnoans bring. Help, Lord!—our lights go out apace; Shew u* the brightBe«of thy hce. Heath. Porter, Wright, aod Kichardno, And York, and Th<muui, dead and gone! A sign thou wilt no longer itay. But break up houae, and go away. When thou thy jewels dost remove, Frona this below, to that above. And, wilt thou leave un here behind. Like worthlen atuff! Lord, be so kind As to continue with ui here; Or else to take us with thee there!

From a MS. in the hand-writing of Mrs. Savage.

Mr. Samuel Hildersham, <cc.—p. 144.

See Clark's Lives, annexed to the Martyrologie, p. 134. til Muvra. A1m>, VindiciK Fcpderis: or. a Treatise on the Covenant of God entered into with Man.kinae in the several Kindes and Deireesof it," by Thomas Blake, 4tu. I6&3. The *' Epistle Dedicatory" is from Mr. Blake's study in Taroworth. and addresi«d " To bis Reverend and much Huuuured Friend, Mr. Samuel Hilderflam, Bachelor in Di. vinity. and Pastor of West Felton, in the County of Salop; together with Mrs. Mary Hildermm, his pious Consort." After referrini to a severe affliction,—the pestilence,—which had issued in an invitation to himself, "and those who had dependence upon him," to Mr. Hilder-4iam*s house, Mr. Blake thus proceedn;—" In your houMC I had not only leisure to make a good progresse in this work, but singular accommodation from your accomplished library. I know you affect not pane-gyricks; neither am I fitted for them, nor was ever accustomed to them. There is much published to the world of one of you in the life of tRe reverend father, to whom I have often, in my thoughts, ap-plied that of Dr. Hall,* concerning learned Whittaker;—* Who ever saw him without reverence, or heard him without wonder!' Having lead the reader through his glory, they adde;—And yet his name, with the lively picture of his person, lives, in his worthy sonne. Master Samuel Hildersam; whose learning Cambridge knew, when lie was Fellow of Emmanuel College; and whose present ministerial labours, and pious conversation, at West Felton, in Shropshire, do (lerpetuate the honour of his reverend father; whose memory be doth much reverence; and whose rich virtues, both personal and ministerial, he doth happily imitate. And it is not little that is said of the otiier, where it is remembered, that you were propounded bv him, for a meet wife for his dearest sonne; and recordea, that he was neard with affec-tion to ingeminate these words;—' Never man had a kinder daughter-in.law.' To be a follower of such a precedent, and to be found worthy of such a testimony, is a greater glory than all the noble blood that no through the veins of tlie greateat of eilher of your aocestora."

Mr. R. Nevet died, &c.—p. 144.

This event, in connexion with the death of several Shropshire wor. thies already mentioned, and otiiers, not named, produced the follow, ing lines from the pen of Mr. Tallents. Thev are transcribed, by fcvour of the Reverend Dr. Butler, from Mr. Tallents's own hana-writing, in a copy of a thin folio, entitled, " Large and Sure Foundations," publishea anonymously by that gentleman, and deposited in the Library of the Royal Free Grammar School, in Shrewsbury:— " On occasion of the death of Mr. Rowland Nevet, formerly Minister of Oswestre, in Shropshire, December, 1975, and of other nonconformist ministers in that county, Iwfore that tione.

When dismal edicts, fourteen years ago. Thousands of pastors from their flocks did throw; In this small countie many took that way. And, mourning, yet, with courage, bore the day; Like stars i* th* night, more glorious did appear. And in their scorns and suff'rings brighter were. Great Hildersam, aod zealous Nevet go. Kind Richardson, and reverend Porter too; Smith, Paston, Thomas, Adams, Humphreys, Bote, With fomous Wright, and Froysel, men of note; Sadler, and learned, holy, humble Heath;— * Forty went out

Others survive, and many ;• May tlieir breath 9»»t new con-Keep many precious touls from endless death! i?'[i3!l!S.f\SLi "™ These, from their labours rest, nor can their name, JS iSSt dScSS! Envy, or fierce ambition justly blame. fbnn after.

Good men, from you these troubles never are, Your actions, and your mildness since declare; Nor, from those peers and patriots, who forbear To press, with rigorous force, the laws severe; Nor from those clergymen, that deeply groan, For needless burdens on their brethren thrown;— But, from those churchmen, and their friends, aod train, Whose blindness, pride, and int'rest, made the flame; And from those men, whose bitter spirit stands Irreconcileable to puritana.

Epistles, Dec. 1, £p. 7. Bishop Hall's Works, vol. 7* p. 137. ut tuprn.

Rome counsell'd. strove, retoiced, in this As a good step to their hop'd happiness; Blind se«« tber, who could not this descry. And feel their downfall by these arts draw nigh. When large and aure foundationa they laid by.

Blest King of Saints, of thy dear church take care. And faithful pastors for thy flocks prepare ;— And haste those righteous days, thou seem'st to ay. Shall be on earth, before the last great day;— And when the tares are burnt, the just let ahine Forth, like the glorious sun, in light divine."

He was a young man, Ace—p. 146.

The following is a copy of a manuscript in Mrs. Savage's liaod ing, entitled,—>' On the Death of Mr. William Jennings, who February 3, 1676.7, by Cosin Robert Bower."

My mother, (reader, pardon me,

If that I interrupted be;

And if my trembling hand doth dread.

And knows not how to write.) is dead.

Oh. grief! What news is next! Sure, aooie.

My sorrow to allay, is come.

No. no; more sable clouds are spread;

My uncle's sick, is worse, is dead.

Two friends, at unce, are lost, I see;

And both of them most dear to me.

Two ways I'll tell my grief likewise.

By ink and tears, by tongue and eves.

But how must I these two tiestowf

Both these to both of them I owe.

I'll, then, divide; and, to be just,

I'll write his (ame, and wash her dust.

Aod, now, I wish that any one

Would pen his deeds as they were done:

My glutted quill would write but dull;

I cannot speak, my mouth 'm so full.

First, we unto the church will »>,

For one o' th' first he's there, I Know.

If he were absent, ask not why j

*Tis sicknesH, or necessity.

No cold, nor heat, could him prevent.

Through rain and snow he often went;

And yet on foot; he thought it best.

On sabbath-days, his beasts should rest,

nf he more pains did take;) though I

May call it,—his humility.

Unto his cloeet next return;

Thither betake thyself, and mourn.

But yet, my muse.awhile forbear;

Thou art too hasty ;—he's at pray'r.

Search it throughout, and you will find

Some relics of a godly mind {

Some wit and ingenuity;

Some learning, but more piety;

Some memorandums of his end;

Some notes of sermons by him penn'd,

And fix'd upon the wall, that he

Without a guide might never be.

Besides;—be lov'd, unto the end.

The king, his country, and his friend.

A loyal heart he ever bore

Unto his prince. Need I siy more ?

He always took as great a care

To do wiiat he had sworn, as swear.

A nun of peace; aa such was known

In ev'rv town, chiefly his own.

Next, I appeal unto the poor.

Which were relieved at his door.

And, oh, roethinks, I hear them say,—

" Alas, we miss him ev'ry day!"

Much used, in our neighbourhood,

A private man of publick good.

His skill in husbandry was much.

You'll scarce, in all these parts, nod such

His house and orchards, all complete;

Not only needful were, but neat.

Expect not I should tell you all :—

Gn, ask his garden, and his wall,

His walks, his trees, his meads, and fields.

Which of hia care an instance yields.

Next, I couM tell you, might it be,

How good a friend he was to me:

At every time his readiness,

In every thing, he did express.

Few like himself he left behind ;

A foithful friend is hard to find.

And, now I've done, I do desire.

My spark may kindle others* fire;

That better poets mav amend.

And finish what I did intend ;—

For, there's a great deal yet behind;

My tongue could not express my mind.

He's dead, and yat he lives; and, why 7

His lasting fiune shall never die.

TbMgh Ihon hut Sbitl rw igitn in ipilc of And be ur Uker of that jo Wben£ettulMi>t,butu

A UXiig. populu pre

FrDOi Mn, SiTi£c'> MS.

Dr. Wordtworth. In Ibt votk •Imdy nftrml («.■ hu, in Ibii pUrf, uil lu Dtbrr Hrt of tbr vo Lmine, iDKiluted a chtricc tgniHt Mat' tbtw Htnry»»liiv uElwr'i bioinphcT, which, if cofrect, would bt Dot oiilf dcliiiiMDUl (o hit SdtlitjF, but append tg hii *el1-kDaini lim. plicity ind apri KhlDiw.

In ^luiion to the obitury of Mr. Biidsc. Dt. Wordmorth Hyiii— mitihl hiif brm wiihid. 0» inuiiict, •! iait. will be ipccilltd (»ln, riind (°^l>itl'i2'uid^''tlK '^Itnlioo in»£'tl''tlw'eo«t "Oct. 1. Mr. Thamu BrMgi, miniitn of the hi Kbtr-puwinue of Mlilp■l DC IT RIly.ei Rht yean, ied eishly-twD ytrt vu burieo thli •by. Hr. Onoi pmrhid. Text, I TiBothy i. IS. told what he liid deebrrd to him in ■ lale fit whirU hn tiu) (ouccrain bb nnentann: lowanla hi! latter end, very eharitiblei i tahinci popuUr, eood prrarlwr; preulwd often, and, to the laat, could rend (tie mjalleit hrly. Tl<e deriHX word '■ ftoS." it will be renailtd, !• omitted in aa final. The eirciinatanc« of hi* bein;. '^Eowardahu latter end, vrry eharfiahle ■" that 1>, {probably,) toward* the Doiv.co Bfi}riniiti, la totally

On Ihii. the only nalirniatory initaiuF, the foltowinf obwralioni (i wnna lo be aninird, that Mr. Matthew Henry, haiini Hated hii iwlertion nf the nuteriale lo be frtMB hia lather'a papen, npccially bit diary, waa tliereby obMuHi if he ^und, aa in thia inatance. a character.

The Imth i thai, allhoucli il wai Mr. Henry'a nutDm, on the death of Hobe of hit neifrhboart aiM friendt, to prcierve chtracteriatlc rcmarlu, ll m^^. i cptTl u^^it. ul'a'JfMclm " Ihl ~i chalrtr (rto MallyaratlctediR the ditrieiL tlw Bih the mort minute Halement aimmpaniei the record of diwdutfon.

"hit own npera," IT ami not confined lolbcditriatallhoiiKh tSnte la-lereinf documenti are made prominent- It may be further mnark. ed, thai Mr. Hniry, in compilinic hit father't Life, would Dot wrilr II

XmSi He biTnTefi ahnon'atT'hdiyi InTbe ne™lMiirll«d"f their chancier and Btrainnenti. Thii, indeed, be hai placed beyond dosU. In a Idler addrewd In Mr. Tallenli, he Ihn wrote t—-^ My progrct ii, lo pul llie rolleclion concerning my dnv bllier, (wliichl hntc now finidied, Btl cf af nrn tiatrleilgt, and hii diary,) into the hand* of ray lyieod, Hr- Tons, who, you know, hath a very flreat facility of expretnoa; and will. I hope, put It into an a;{T»lirc ahapc, dnpiH iL Vo Ihni I would have to boaided ■ iHief ex Tract of your iwn Boa, (if you pitoe,) and of Mr, Oweu't, and Mr. Idwrence'L the WeduaJay (Ullawlai:, lakini; that out of each which ii nermui, and belter IHesrrcd Ihan if pu ncTcT pol much upon the ar Tlyior, ' ' "" * "'""'" M.]n-.yer-'

1.1. SnW other'mile mi Maketal«lh< fted. ■odamne thiDKt.lihewite. which may hoc naio rcry proper to be woken lo all the world in Ihia crilica] ag«. There are amie of your capecially cnmderiDf that the occalwu ia lurh ai will cerlainly brinE it into the hande of JHny who are rrry ioduatrloua in accking matter of OTiland rrmomf'** ^Ihiok, aner thia autlieptic IpecimeD of Mr. Matthew Henry't prudence, tod deilR of accuracy, it may aafdy

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