A50149:156
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor 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.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.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
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Once more; the miserable exclaimed extremely of Branding Irons heating at the Fire, on the Hearth, to mark them; now though the standers-by could see no Irons, yet they could see distinctly the Print of them in the Ashes, and smell them too as they were carried by the not-seen Furies, unto the Poor Creatures for whom they were intended; and those Poor Creatures were thereupon so stigmatized with them, that they will bear the Marks of them to their Dying Day. Nor are these the Tenth Part of the Prodigies that fell out among the Inhabitants of New-England.
Once more; the miserable exclaimed extreamly of Branding Irons heating at the Fire, on the Hearth, to mark them; now though the standers-by could see no Irons, yet they could see distinctly the Print of them in the Ashes, and smell them too as they were carried by the not-seen Furies, unto the Poor Creatures for whom they were intended; and those Poor Creatures were thereupon so stigmatized with them, that they will bear the Marks of them to their Dying Day. Nor are these the Tenth Part of the Prodigies that fell out among the Inhabitants of New-England.
Flashy People may Burlesque these Things, but when Hundreds of the most sober People in a Country, where they have as much Mother-Wit certainly, as the rest of Mankind, know them to be True, nothing but the absurd and froward Spirit of Sadducism can Question them. I have not yet mentioned so much as one Thing that will not be justified, if it be required, by the Oaths of more considerate Persons than any that can ridicule these odd Phenomena.
Flashy People may Burlesque these Things, but when Hundreds of the most sober People in a Country, where they have as much Mother-Wit certainly, as the rest of Mankind, know them to be True, nothing but the absurd and froward Spirit of Sadducism can Question them. I have not yet mentioned so much as one Thing that will not be justified, if it be required, by the Oaths of more considerate Persons than any that can ridicule these odd Phaenomena.