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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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That packed and picked Juries were Commonly made use of, when under a Pretended Form of Law, the Trouble of some Honest and Worthy Men, was aimed at; and these also were hurried out of their own ⟨p. 22⟩Counties to be tried, when Juries for the Turn, were not like to be found there. The Greatest Rigour being used still towards the soberest sort of people whilst in the mean time the most horrid Enormities, in the World committed by Others, were overlooked.
That pack't and pick't Juries were Commonly made use of, when under a Pretended Form of Law, the Trouble of some Honest and Worthy Men, was aimed at; and these also were hurried out of their own ⟨p. 22⟩Counties to be tried, when Juries for the Turn, were not like to be found there. The Greatest Rigour being used still towards the soberest sort of people whilst in the mean time the most horrid Enormities, in the World committed by Others, were overlook'd.
That, The public Ministry of the Gospel, and All Schools of Learning, were discountenanced unto the Utmost.
That, The publick Ministry of the Gospel, and All Schools of Learning, were discountenanced unto the Utmost.
And several more such abominable things, too notorious to be denied, even by a Randolphian impudence it self, are in that Book proved against that unhappy Government. Nor did that most Ancient Set of the Phoenician Shepherds, who screwed the Government of Egypt into their Hands, as Old Manethon tells us, by their Villainies, during the Reigns of those Tyrants, make a Shepherd more of an Abomination to the Egyptians in all after-Ages, than these Wolves under the Name of Shepherds have made the Remembrance of their French Government, an Abomination to all Posterity among the New-Englanders: A Government, for which, now, Reader, as fast as thou wilt, get ready this Epitaph: Nulla quaesita Scelere Potentia diuturna.