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

Now I cannot my self provide a better Statue for this Memorable Person, then the Words uttered on the occasion of his Death in a very great Assembly, by a Person of so diffused and Embalmed a Reputation in the Church of God, that such a Character from him, were enough to Immortalize the Reputation of the Person upon whom he should bestow it.

Now I cannot my self provide a better Statue for this Memorable Person, then the Words uttered on the occasion of his Death in a very great Assembly, by a Person of so diffus'd and Embalm'd a Reputation in the Church of God, that such a Character from him, were enough to Immortalize the Reputation of the Person upon whom he should bestow it.

The Grecians employed still the most Honourable and Considerable Persons they had among them, to make a Funeral Oration, in Commendation of Soldiers that had lost their Lives, in the Service of the Public: And when Sir William Phips, the Captain ⟨p. 109⟩General of New-England, who had often ventured his Life to serve the Public, did expire, that Reverend Person, who was the President of the only University then in the English America, Preached a Sermon on that Passage of the Sacred Writ, Isa. 57.1. Merciful Men are taken away, none considering that the Righteous are taken away from the Evil to come; and in it gave Sir William Phips the following Testimony.

The Grecians employ'd still the most Honourable and Considerable Persons they had among them, to make a Funeral Oration, in Commendation of Souldiers that had lost their Lives, in the Service of the Publick: And when Sir William Phips, the Captain ⟨p. 109⟩General of New-England, who had often ventured his Life to serve the Publick, did expire, that Reverend Person, who was the President of the only University then in the English America, Preached a Sermon on that Passage of the Sacred Writ,