Past because he "accepted "
Answer: the hardships faced by the Pilgrims.
In this passage, we see that the author talks about the children of Pilgrims. He states that these children will talk about how their parents crossed the ocean and risked their lives in the wilderness. And the whole time, they prayed, and God delivered them. The passage discusses the hardships that the Pilgrims faced when they came to America.
I believe that based on this context, Faustus is being compared to Icarus.
In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, who created a labyrinth where Minotaur was kept imprisoned. Daedalus and Icarus were too prisoners of the same island, and they wanted to escape using the wings that Daedalus made. However, Icarus flew too high near the Sun, and the wax on his wings melted and he fell to his death.
