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

But that which helped these Bills unto much of their Credit, was the generous offer of many worthy men in Boston, to run the Risk of selling their Goods reasonably for them: and of these, I think, I may say, that General Phips was in some sort the Leader; who at the very Beginning, merely to Recommend the Credit of the Bills unto other Persons, cheerfully laid down a Considerable Quantity of ready Money for an equivalent parcel of them. And thus in a little time, the Country waded through the Terrible Debts which it was fallen into: In this, though unhappy enough, yet not so unhappy, as in the Loss of men, by which the Country was at the some Time consumed. 'Tis True, there was very Little Blood spilt in the Attack made upon Quebec; and there was a Great Hand of Heaven seen in it. The Churches, upon the Call of the Government, not only observed a General Fast through the Colony, for the Welfare of the Army sent unto Quebec, but also kept the Wheel of Prayer in a Continual motion, by Repeated and Successive Agreements, for Days of Prayer with Fasting, in their several Vicinities. On these Days the Ferventest Prayers were sent up to the God of Armies, for the safety and success of the New-English Army gone to Canada; and though I never understood that any of the Faithful did in their Prayers arise to any assurance, that the Expedition ⟨p. 46⟩should prosper in all respects, yet they sometimes in their Devotions on these Occasions, uttered their Persuasion, that Almighty God had heard them in this thing, that the English Army should not fall by the hands of the French Enemy. Now they were marvellously delivered from doing so; though the Enemy had such unexpected Advantages over them, yea, and though the horrid Winter was come on so far, that it is a Wonder the English Fleet, then Riding in the River of Canada, fared any better than the Army which a while since, besieged Poland, wherein, of seventy thousand Invaders, no less than forty thousand suddenly perished by the severity of the cold, albeit it were but the Month of November with them. Nevertheless, a kind of Camp-Fever, as well as the Small-Pox, got into the Fleet, whereby some Hundreds came short of Home.

But that which helped these Bills unto much of their Credit, was the generous offer of many worthy men in Boston, to run the Risque of selling their Goods reasonably for them: and of these, I think, I may say, that General Phips was in some sort the Leader; who at the very Beginning, meerly to Recommend the Credit of the Bills unto other Persons, cheerfully laid down a Considerable Quantity of ready Money for an equivalent parcel of them. And thus in a little time, the Country waded through the Terrible Debts which it was fallen into: In this, though unhappy enough, yet not so unhappy, as in the Loss of men, by which the Country was at the some Time consumed. 'Tis True, there was very Little Blood spilt in the Attacque made upon Quebeck; and there was a Great Hand of Heaven seen in it. The Churches, upon the Call of the Government, not only observed a General Fast through the Colony, for the Welfare of the Army sent unto Quebeck, but also kept the Wheel of Prayer in a Continual motion, by Repeated and Successive Agreements, for Days of Prayer with Fasting, in their several Vicinities. On these Days the Ferventest Prayers were sent up to the God of Armies, for the safety and success of the New-English Army gone to Canada; and though I never understood that any of the Faithful did in their Prayers arise to any assurance, that the Expedition