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

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 Persuasion, he did, without any Difference, express towards them a Reverent Affection.

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 'tis 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: 'Tis inexpressible, How much the Courage of those fierce Mortals was fortified by that Opinion.