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

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.

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 Sett of the Phoenician Shepherds, who scrued the Government of Egypt into their Hands, as Old Manethon tells us, by their Villanies, 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.

It was under the Resentments of these Things, that Sir William Phips, returned into England, in the year 1688. In which Twice-Wonderful-Year, such a Revolution was wonderfully accomplished upon the whole Government of the English Nation, that New-England, which had been a Specimen of what the whole Nation was to look for, might justly hope for a share in the General Deliverance. Upon this Occasion Sir William offered his best Assistances unto that Eminent Person, who a little before this Revolution, betook himself unto White-Hall, that he might there lay hold on all Opportunities to procure some Relief unto the Oppressions of that afflicted Country. But seeing the New-English Affairs in so able an Hand, he thought the best Stage of Action for