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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

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 Discite Virtutem ex Hoe verumque Laborem LONDON Printed by Sam. Bridge in Austin-Friers for Nath. Hiller at the Princes-Arms in Leaden-Hall Street over against St. Mary-Ax 1697. To his Excellency the Earl of Bellomont Baron of Coloony in Ireland General Governour of the Province of Massachusets in New England and the Provinces annexed May it please your Excellency THE Station in which the Hand of the God of Heaven hath disposed His Majesties Heart to place your Honour doth so manifestly entitle your Lordship to this insuing Narrative that its being thus Presented to your Excellencies Hand is thereby both Apologized for and Justified I believe had the Writer of it when he Penned it had any Knowledge of your Excellency he would himself have done it and withal would have amply and publickly Congratulated the People of New England on account of their having such a Governour and your Excellency on account of your being made Governour over them For though as to some other things it may possibly be a place to some Persons not so desirable yet I believe this Character may be justly given of them that they are the best People under Heaven there being among them not only less of open Profaneness and less of Lewdness but also more of the serious Profession Practise and Power of Christianity in proportion to their number then is among any other People upon the Face of the whole Earth Not but I doubt there are many bad Persons among them and too many distemper'd Humours perhaps even among those who are truly good It would be a wonder if it should be otherwise for it hath of late Years on various accounts and some very singular and unusual ones been a Day of sore Temptation with that whole People Nevertheless as I look upon it as a Favour from God to those Plantations that he hath set your Excellency over them so I do account it a Favour from God to your Excellency that he hath committed and trusted in your Hand so great a part of his peculiar Treasure and precious Jewels as are among that People Besides that on other accounts the Lord Jesus hath more of a visible Interest in New England then in any of the outgoings of the English Nation in America They have at their own Charge not only set up Schools of lower Learning up and down the Country but have also erected an University which hath been the happy Nursery of many useful Learned and excellently accomplished Persons And moreover from them hath the blessed Gospel been Preached to the poor barbarous savage Heathen there and it hath taken such root among them that there were lately four and twenty Assemblies in which the Name of the Lord Jesus was constantly called on and celebrated in their own Language In these things New England outshineth all the Colonies of the English in those goings down of the Sun I know your Excellency will Favour and Countenance their University and also the Propagating of the Gospel among the Natives for the Interest of Christ in that Part of the Earth is much concerned in them That the God of the Spirits of all Flesh would abundantly replenish your Excellency with a suitable Spirit for the Service to which he hath called your Lordship that he would give your Honour a prosperous Voyage thither and when there make your Excellency a rich Blessing to that People and them a rejoycing to your Excellency is the Prayer of April 27. 1697. My Lord Your Excellencies most Humble Servant Nath. Mather THE CONTENTS OF THE SECTIONS SEct. 1. The Introduction The Authors Ends in Writing this Remarkable History Page 1. Sect. 2. Some great Men with whom Sir William Phips might be parallel'd An Account of his Birth in New-England and his Parentage 3. Sect. 3. He was early inspired with great Hopes Yet puts himself Apprentice to a Shipwright He Marries a Merchants Widow Builds a Ship Saves his Neighbours from the cruelty of the Indians 5. Sect. 4. He strangely foretels his future Advancement An Account of his Genius and Disposition He goes to Sea in quest of a Spanish Wreck Sails to England for Assistance Is made Captain of one of the Kings Frigats 6. Sect. 5. His Conduct and Courage when his Men Mutiny'd He gets Intelligence of the Place where the Spanish Wreck lay Sails to England again for farther help 7. Sect. 6. His admirable Patience Diligence c. in prosecuting his Business Returns to Port de la Plata in America Happily finds out the Wreck which had been cast away Fifty Years before An Account how he fished and brought up two and thirty Tuns of Silver besides Gold and Jewels His Seamen Mutiny He quiets them Brings his Treasure being about 300000 l. Sterling to London His Honesty both to his Employers and to his Seamen He is Rewarded and Knighted Page 10. Sect. 7. His generous Temper and great Love to his Native Country Some Account of the sad State of New-England by the loss of its Charter and by an ill Governour Sir William Phips his endeavours at Court to serve New-England He is made High Sheriff of that Country Sails a second time to the Wreck with Sir John Narborough 15. Sect. 8. A large Account of New-Englands Sufferings and Oppressions under their bad Governour For redress whereof Sir William Phips makes a Voyage to England King James offers him the Government of New-England on Terms which He could not accept He returns to New-England Finds his Country in new troubles from the Indians News is brought thither of the Prince of Orange's Success in England An Account how the Revolution was brought about in New-England their Governour imprisoned c. 19. Sect. 9. Sir William Phips joyns himself to a Church in New-England His own Account of his Conversion to God Page 26. Sect. 10. His great Zeal to serve his Country His Expedition against the French at L'Acady and Nova Scotia He recovers that Country from them Anno 1690. 30. Sect. 11. A large Account of his Expedition against the French at Canada with a Fleet of 32 Ships in the same Year The Story out of Bradwardine of an Angel and Hermite that travelled together 32. Sect. 12. Bills of Credit passed a little while in New-England instead of Money Some farther Matters relating to the Canada Expedition A wonderful Relation of a Shipwrack and how some of the Men were strangely preserved With the great hardships and difficulties they underwent for six or seven Months 43. Sect. 13. Sir William Phips makes a Voyage to England to obtain help for another Expedition against Canada His Reasons presented to the King 52. Sect. 14. Some Account of Mr. Increase Mather 's Negotiations at White-Hall on the