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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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SECT. 21.
ALTHOUGH he has now no more a Portion for ever in any Thing that is done under the Sun, yet Justice requires that his Memory be not forgotten. I have not all this while said, He was Faultless, nor am I unwilling to use for him the Words which Mr. Calamy had in his Funeral Sermon, for the Excellent Earl of Warwick, It must be confessed, least I should prove a Flatterer, He had his Infirmities, which I trust Jesus Christ hath covered with the Robe of his Righteousness: My Prayer to God is that all his Infirmities may be Buried in the Grave of Oblivion, and that all his Virtues and Graces may survive, although perhaps they were no Infirmities in that Noble Person, which Mr. Calamy counted so.
ALTHOUGH he has now no more a Portion for ever in any Thing that is done under the Sun, yet Jastice requires that his Memory be not forgotten. I have not all this while said, He was Faultless, nor am I unwilling to use for him the Words which Mr. Calamy had in his Funeral Sermon, for the Excellent Earl of Warwick, It must be confessed, least I should prove a Flaterer, He had his Infirmities, which I trust Jesus Christ hath covered with the Robe of his Righteousness: My Prayer to God is that all his Infirmities may be Buried in the Grave of Oblivion, and that all his Virtues and Graces may supervive, although perhaps they were no Infirmities in that Noble Person, which Mr. Calamy counted so.
Nevertheless I must also say, That if the Anguish of his Public Fatigues threw Sir William into any Faults of Passion, they were but Faults of Passion, soon Recalled: And Spots being soonest seen in Ermine, there was usually the most made of them that could be, by those that were least Free themselves.