Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

He was a sort of Confessor under such Torments of Cold, as once made the Martyrdom of Muria, and others commemorated in Orations of the Ancients; and the Snow and Ice which Pliny calls, The Punishment of Mountains, he cheerfully endured, without any other Profit unto himself, but only the Pleasure of thereby establishing and continuing unto the People the Liberty to Sleep quietly in their warm Nests at home, while he was thus concerned for them abroad. Non mihi sed Populo, the Motto of the Emperor Hadrian, was engraved on the Heart of Sir William: NOT FOR MY SELF, BUT FOR MY PEOPLE: Or that of Maximin, Quo major, hoc Laboriosior, the more Honourable, the more Laborious.

He was a sort of Confessor under such Torments of Cold, as once made the Martyrdom of Muria, and others commemorated in Orations of the Ancients; and the Snow and Ice which Pliny calls, The Punishment of Mountains, he chearfully endured, without any other Profit unto himself, but only the Pleasure of thereby establishing and centinuing unto the People the Liberty to Sleep quietly in their warm Nests at home, while he was thus concerned for them abroad. Non mihi sed Populo, the Motto of the Emperour Hadrian, was engraved on the Heart of Sir William: NOT FOR MY SELF, BUT FOR MY PEOPLE: Or that of Maximin, Quo major, hoc Laboriosior, the more Honourable, the more Laborious.

Indeed the Restlessness of his Travels to the Southern as well as the Eastern Parts of the Country, when the Public Safety called for his Presence, would have made one to think on the Translation which the King of Portugal, on a very extraordinary occasion, gave the Fourth Verse in the Hundred and Twenty first Psalm. He will not slumber, nor will he suffer to sleep, the Keeper of Israel. Nor did he only try to Cicurate the Indians of the East, by other Prudent and Proper Treatments, but he also furnished himself with an Indian Preacher of the Gospel, whom he carried unto the Eastward, with an Intention to teach them the Principles of the Protestant Religion, and unteach them the mixed Paganry and Popery which hitherto Diabolized them. To unteach them, I say; for they had been Taught by the French Priests this among other things, That the Mother of our Blessed Saviour was ⟨p. 87⟩