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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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Under great Provocations, he would commonly say, 'Tis no Matter, let them alone; sometime, or other they'll see their Weakness and Rashness, and have occasion for me to do them a Kindness: And they shall then see, I have quite forgotten all their Baseness. Accordingly, 'twas remarkable to see it, That few Men ever did him a Mischief, but those Men afterwards had occasion for him to do Them a Kindness; and he did the Kindness with as forgetful a Bravery, as if the Mischief had never been done at all. The Emperor Theodosius himself could not be readier to Forgive; so worthily did he verify that Observation.
Under great Provocations, he would commonly say, 'Tis no Matter, let them alone; sometime, or other they'l see their Weakness and Rashness, and have occasion for me to do them a Kindness: And they shall then see, I have quite forgotten all their Baseness. Accordingly, 'twas remarkable to see it, That few Men ever did him a Mischief, but those Men afterwards had occasion for him to do Them a Kindness; and he did the Kindness with as forgetful a Bravery, as if the Mischief had never been done at all. The Emperour Theodosius himself could not be readier to Forgive; so worthily did he verifie that Observation.
Quo quisque est Major, magis est Placabilis Ira, Et Faciles Motus, Mens Generosa capit.
In those Places of Power whereto the Providence of God, by several Degrees raised him, it still fell out so, that before his Rise thereunto, he underwent such ⟨p. 90⟩Things, as he counted very hard Abuses, from those very Persons over whom, the Divine Providence afterwards gave him the Ascendant.