The surest way to the greatest honour

It was the noted saying of a Great. Emperor, That the Chief Ruler is to Serve the Senate, by hearkening to their good Advice, and to Serve the People by promoting the Public Good, and to Serve single Persons by an Equal Distribution of Justice. That Your Excellency will approve Your Self such a Ruler, You have given us sufficient cause to believe. Your late Noble Speech to our General Assembly has won their Affections, and cannot but be pleasing to every English, and in a peculiar manner to every New-England Heart.

It was the noted saying of a Great. Em•eror, That the Chief Ruler is to Serve the Senate, by hearkening to their good Advice, and to Serve the People by promoting the Publick Good, and to Serve single Persons by an Equal Distribution of Justice. That Your Excellency will approve Your Self such a Ruler, You have given us sufficient cause to believe. Your late Noble Speech to our General Assembly has won their Affections, and cannot but be pleasing to every English, and in a peculiar manner to every New-England Heart.

God does sometimes pour signal Blessings on the Posterity of them, who have done signal Service for His Name. Your Illustrious Grandfather, Sr.Charles Coots (who will be had in Everlasting Remembrance) was such, an One. I find it recorded in the History of his Life, published by Mr. Clark, That he having been a Man of War from his Youth, was Sent a Commander into Ireland, in the Year 160•. where he was an Eminent Instrument of Good to the English Nation. And Forty Years after, that he again Fought the Battles of the Lord against the Irish Rebels, with most ⟨image ?⟩Remarkable Successes, and at last Dyed (as Sampson did) Victorious over the Enemies of His Nation, and of the True Religion, of whom it might be said, as one speaks of that Excellent King of Sweedland, Carolus Gust•vins, That he Dyed with Victory Bleeding at his Side. But Your Noble Grandfather's Piety made Him more Illustrious than His Prowess and Valour. He was (as both Mr. Clark, and Dr. Teat have reported) One that manifested a singular Love to all Good Men, and in a special manner to such as were the Faithful Ministers of Christ; an Hater of all Vice, and Vicious persons; and an Encourager of all that was Virtuous and Praise-worthy: Yea, and One that by his Faith and Prayers could prevail with God. For when he was, (and had been for a long time) through Bodily Infirmities, hardly able to set his Feet on the Ground, seeing his Nation in Danger, he earnestly prayed, that God would strengthen him to appear in His Cause, and to Fight His Baels. When a marvellous Spirit of Fortitude from Heaven suddenly ell upon him, and immediately to the Admiration of all men, By Faith out of Weakness he was made strong, and put to flight the Armies of the Aliens. Which things