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The views of Philip Henry were truly worthy of his high office. Thus he wrote on the day of his ordination—‘I did this day receive as much honour and work as ever I shall be able to know what to do with. Lord Jesus! proportion supplies accordingly.’ Two scriptures he desired might be written in his heart. 2Cor. 6.4, 5. and 2Chron. 29.11. And so influential were these views in maintaining a course of deep-toned humility, ‘that he laid himself out with as much diligence and vigour,’ in a very contracted sphere, ‘as if he had the oversight of the greatest and most considerable parish in the country.’ P. Henry’s Life (Williams’s Edition) p. 38; which Dr. Chalmers has justly characterized, as ‘one of the most precious religious biographies in our language.’ Oh! for a large supply of such Ministers in every department of the Church of God!