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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50149	Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1138; Wing P2135_CANCELLED; ESTC R931	77,331	134

came in and helped him and saved him and so by a rare Virtue he made his worst Adversaries the Captives of his Generosity One of the Ancients upon such an History cried out If Heathens can do thus much for the Glory of their Name what shall not Christians do for the Glory of Heaven And Sir William Phips did so much more than thus much that besides his meriting the Glory of such a Name as PHIPPIVS MAXIMVS he therein had upon him the Symptoms of a Title to the Glory of Heaven in the Seal of his own Pardon from God Nor was this Generosity in HIS EXCELLENCY the Governour of New-England unaccompanied with many other Excellencies whereof the Piety of his Carriage towards God is worthy to be first mentioned It is true He was very Zealous for all Men to enjoy such a Liberty of Conscience as he judged a Native Right of Mankind And he was extreamly Troubled at the over-boiling Zeal of some good Men who formerly took that wrong Way of reclaiming Hereticks by Persecution For this Generosity it may be some would have compared him unto Gallio the Governour of Achaia whom our Preachers perhaps with Mistake enough think to be condemned in the Scripture for his not appearing to be a Judge in Matters which indeed fell not under his Cognizance And I shall be content that he be compared unto that Gentleman for that Gallio was the Brother of Seneca who gives this Character of him That there was no Man who did not love him too little if he could Love him any more and That there was no Mortal so Dear to any as he was to all and That he hated all Vices but none more than Flattery But while the Generosity of Sir William caused him to desire a Liberty of Conscience his Piety would not allow a Liberty of Prophaneness either to himself or others He did not affect any mighty show of Devotion and when he saw any that were evidently careful to make a show and especially if at the same Time they were notoriously Defective in the Duties of Common Justice or Goodness or the Duties of the Relations wherein God had stationed them he had an extream Aversion for them Nevertheless he did show a Conscientious Desire to observe the Laws of the Lord Jesus Christ in his Conversation and he conscientiously attended upon the Exercises of Devotion in the Seasons thereof on Lectures as well as on Lords-Days and in the Daily-Sacrifice the Morning and Evening Service of his own Family yea and at the Private Meetings of the Devout People kept every Formight in the Neighbourhood Besides all this when he had great Works before him he would Invite good Men to come and Fast and Pray with him at his House for the Success thereof and when he had succeeded in what he had undertaken he would prevail with them to come and keep a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving with him His Love to Almighty God was indeed manifested by nothing more than his Love to those that had the Image of God upon them He Heartily and with a Real Honour for them Loved all Godly Men and in so doing he did not confine Godliness to this or that Party but wherever he saw the Fear of God in one of a Congregational or Presbyterian or Antipaedobaptist or Episcopalian Perswasion he did without any Difference express towards them a Reverent Affection But he made no Men more welcome than those Good Men whose Office 't is to promote and preserve Goodness in all other Men even the Ministers of the Gospel Especially when they were such as faithfully Discharged their Office And from these at any Time the least Admonition or Intimation of any good Thing to be done by him he entertained with a most obliging Alacrity His Religion in Truth was one Principle that added Virtue unto that vast Courage which was always in him to a Degree Heroical Those Terrible Nations which made their Descents from the Northern on the Southern Parts of Europe in those Elder Ages when so to swarm out was more frequent with them were inspired with a valiant Contempt of Life by the Opinion wherein their famous Odin instructed them That their Death was but an Entrance into another Life wherein they who Died in Warlike Actions were bravely feasted with the God of War for ever 'T is inexpressible How much the Courage of those fierce Mortals was fortified by that Opinion But when Sir William Phips was asked by some that observed his Valiant Contempt of Death What it was that made him so little afraid of Dying he gave a better grounded Account of it than those Pagans could his Answer was I do humbly believe That the Lord Jesus Christ shed his Precious Blood for me by His Death procuring my Peace with God and what should I now be afraid of Dying for But this Leads me to mention the Humble and Modest Carriage in him towards other Men which accompanied this his Piety There were certain Pomps belonging unto the several Places of Honour through which he passed Pomps that are very taking to Men of little Souls But although he rose from so little yet he discovered a marvellous Contempt of those Aiery Things and as far as he handsomely could he declined being ceremoniously or any otherwise than with a Dutch Modesty waited upon And it might more truly be said of him than it was of Aristides He was never seen the Prouder for any Honour that was done him from his Country-men Hence albeit I have read that complaint made by a worthy Man I have often observed and this not without some Blushing that even good People have had a kind of shame upon them to acknowledge their low beginning and used all Arts to hide it I could never observe the least of that Fault in this worthy Man but he would speak of his own low beginning with as much Freedom and Frequency as if he had been afraid of having it forgotten It was counted an Humility in King Agathocles the Son of a Potter to be served therefore in Earthen Vessels as Plutarch hath informed us It was counted an Humility in Arch-Bishop Willigis the Son of a Wheel-wright therefore to have Wheels hung about his Bed-Chamber with this Inscription Recole undè Veneris i. e. Remember thy Original But such was the Humility and Lowliness of this Rising Man Not only did he after his return to his Country in his Greatness one Day make a splendid Feast for the Ship Carpenters of Boston among whom he was willing at his Table to Commemorate the Mercy of God unto him who had once been a Ship Carpenter himself but he would on all occasions permit yea Study to have his Meannesses remembred Hence upon frequent occasions of Uneasiness in his Government he would chuse thus to express himself Gentlemen were it not that I am to do Service for the Publick I should be much easier in returning unto my Broad Ax again And hence according to