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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82001	Historie & policie re-viewed, in the heroick transactions of His Most Serene Highnesse, Oliver, late Lord Protector; from his cradle, to his tomb: declaring his steps to princely perfection; as they are drawn in lively parallels to the ascents of the great patriarch Moses, in thirty degrees, to the height of honour. / By H.D. Esq.	H. D. (Henry Dawbeny)	1659 (1659)	Wing D448; Thomason E1799_2; ESTC R21310	152,505	340

Moses though we cannot hold up our Parallel to the heighth of that honour which the first had to be conveyed to his grave by God himself and put into the earth by those Almighty hands which had made him out of it yet we may say that he was interred with as much state and carried to his mother earth with as much solemnity and magnificence as ever person in the World was nay his very Effigies was honoured with so great a reverence as if some divinity had attended the Royal procession And yet this is not all the glorious Sepulture that his Highnesse had for what the Orator said of his Prince we may mutato nomine most aptly conclude of him Totum nec capiet Olivarium brevis ista tumuli clausura Britannum nomen pectus unumquodque nobile vivum stabit defuncto monumentum vivet ipse suo letho superstes multam aetatem feret etiam mortuus gloriaeque plenus deducetur ad Posteros c. The whole great Oliver cannot be contained within so scanty an enclosure as is the vault that holds his body the British Name it self and every noble breast of the Nation shall stand a living Monument to his memory Thus shall his Highnesse outlive his death and grow great in glory whilst he is consuming in his grave and be conveighed into the arms of posterity with everlasting acclamations Good Princes as well as Poets find their honours to swell from their last ashes and like Phoenixes spring afresh from their funeral Piles as we shall more at large make out in our next which is our last Mosaical Ascent and closing Parallel The sixth and last Transcendental Ascent MOses built himself a Monument in the hearts of all his people and left a blessed Memorial behind him and all this was attested by the Spirit of God himself after his death expressely assuring us that there arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the Land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and to all his Land and in all that mighty hand and in all that great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel The Parallel Thus the Lord is pleased to make the memory of his Saints precious in the language of the Spirit as sweet ointment poured forth for we see here how he will make his dead servant Moses to ascend still in this World by the fragrancy of his memory and indeed it is the last Ascent that humane perfection is capable of to mount up after a blessed death to a happy and honourable remembrance amongst men a most particular grace and prerogative which the Divine goodnesse indulgeth to none but to his most dear servants For some there are as Ecclesiasticus not Apocryphally observes which have no memorial at all who are perished as though they had never been and are become as though they had never been born and their children after them but the righteousnesse of merciful men hath not been forgotten c Then again their bodies are buried in peace but their name liveth for evermore nay further the people will tell of their wisdom and the Congregation will shew forth their praise Has not our most Serene second Moses received this precious Transcendental favour likewise from the hands of his gracious God has he not so filled the mindes and mouthes of all the good people of the Nation that they have nothing almost left to think and speak on but the memory of their late great Protector Insomuch that we can compare this glorious Ascent of his Highnesse his happy death to nothing so properly as to the expiration of the Phenix upon the Mountain of the Sun in the sweet odours of his heroick vertues O what a memory has his Highnesse left us of his unspotted piety and undefiled policy amidst all the depravations and corruptions of the Word O what a memory has he left us of his arriving to the highest honours and dignities by flying them and to have ennobled all his Charges by the integrity of his manners O what a memory of a life lead truly according to Christianity that has alwayes daunted the most audacious Libertins and like a Divine Mirrour killed Basiliskes with the repercussion of their own poison O what a memory has he left us of having governed a Church and State so as if it had been a clear copy of Heaven and an eternal pattern of holy Policy holding himself alwayes to those heavenly Poles of piety and justice that support the great policy of the Universe esteeming them as Democritus did the two divinities of Weales publick or great wheeles upon which all the affaires of the World were to move so establishing himself still upon those holy Columnes as the one has given him immortality with God so the other has perpetuated his memorial amongst men O what a memory has he left behind him of having borne upon his shoulders so happily all the interests and glories of this Nation and the very moveables of the House of God! O what a memory has he left of having so many times trampled the heads of Dragons under his feet and rendered himself the wonder of the World For who indeed is it but must remember how this brave valorous and Princely person who was to joyne the kingdom of his vertues to the force of his armes was alwayes of so vigorous and sublime a spirit that he measured still all his most difficult undertakings by the greatnesse of his own courage and like a Caesar indeed but more like a true Moses resolved to break through all obstacles to Crown his inspired purposes O what a memory of a blessed death in a good old age and full fruition of all his labours to have died as in a field of Palmes and all planted with his own hand manured with his constant industry and water'd with his own painful sweats O what a memory after death to be acknowledged by all to have built himself before his death a most stately Tombe stufft with the precious Stones of his own most goodly and incomparable vertues all which rightly now to represent would require a recapitulation of all our Parallels and take up a bulk bigger than this small Volume is intended to bear And it is enough I conceive to our present purpose to say that this Nation shall for ever preserve the memory of him as of a Prince that has proved it possible though miraculous to hold a conjunction of piety with the Supreme power and Soveraign authority sweetly tempered with goodnesse things before thought utterly incompatible in Kings and truly I know not what just quarrel any man can have against his memory but that he hath shewed a path to mortall men and trod it by his own example to prove it possible to arrive at so much perfection and that may be a fault

all his promised assistance to him by which means he wrought stupendious miracles in Egypt and by those so quickly brought to a confusion all the Learning Policy Sorcery and Malice of the Egyptians And indeed to go about to prove that there is fidelity in the Lord of Heaven and Earth towards his servants here below would be altogether as impertinent as to demonstrate water to be in the Sea or light in the Sun especially when he that is the eternal Truth has said it that he is righteous in all his wayes and faithful in all his words and works Our Moses is now to meet with men and devils but the Lord will enable him as he promised to withstand and subdue all their malitious and magical oppositions First Pharaoh upon our Moses his coming to Court and receiving his first summons instead of being obedient to the Lords commands and giving the people their desired liberty to go and serve him calls his Cabinet-Council about him and by their politick advices encreaseth presently the Israelites Taskes on purpose to inflame them to a mutiny and make them murder those that came about to deliver them But the Lord who stills the roaring of the waves and the madnesse of the people is pleased quickly to pacifie them and make them comfortably to submit to their barbarous burdens and peaceably and patiently to expect the day of their desired Redemption When this subtile piece of king-craft would not serve proud Pharaohs turn and all his politick Junto were at a stand the Devil must be presently employed and all the Magicians of the Land sent for that they forsooth may beard this great Embassadour of God and vye with their diabolical enchantments divine Miracles So Moses could no sooner cast his Rod down upon the ground to become a Serpent but those devilish Sorceres would do as much though all theirs were to be devoured by the Divine Rod. Nay Rivers turned into blood and producing of innumerable Frogs could not out-do their cheating inchantments But when the sacred Rod was to be stretcht forth again and the dust of the earth smitten into lice then Ars tua Typhe jacet the Magicians are all at a gaze there their Sorcery is quite confounded and they are constrained to confesse that the Devil their good Lord and Master hath a power limited for silly lice of which man is naturally a creator are enough to confound these great Negromancers and make them acknowledge and adore the finger of God Now after all this when malice and Magick could do no more yet the Tyrant will be stiff still till his Court and Kingdom too be infested and invaded with huge Armies of flies whose grievous swarms boldly stormed the Royal Chamber of Pharaoh then he begun to be inclined to let the children of Israel go but he had no sooner got from under the Rod but he relapseth into his old disobedience obstinacy and hardnesse of heart neither would he let the people go Then followed the miraculous Murrain upon beasts with the plague of boiles and blaines upon the more beastly and brute men with the most stupendious storm of fire and water mingled together that ever the earth felt before or since before Pharaoh would be brought to incline to our Moses and his peoples request But he had no sooner got once more a respit from those plagues but he stood at a defiance with God Almighty again and his Embassadour too Then must millions of Locusts be sent for to make his hard heart relent which he did again soon for a little time but returned presently to his insolence and Tyranny Then prodigious palpable darknesse must be sent a darknesse thick enough to be felt yet proud Pharaoh himself had no feeling longer than he remained under the importunity of the plague still relapsing into his old obduration of heart till the Lord was pleased at midnight to smite all the first-born of the Land of Egypt from the first-born of Pharaoh that sate on the Throne to the first-born of the captive lying in the dungeon and all the first-born of cattel Then was the Tyrant throughly startled he rose up in the night he and all his servants and all the Egyptians and there was a great cry in Egypt for there was not a house where there was not one dead This was a blow indeed that reacht to the very heart of Pharaoh and all his people who now with tears in their eyes are turned from being Tyrants to be suppliants and do humbly beseech their Petitioners to be masters of their own desires nor onely so but offer to accommodate them for their journey with all necessaries lend them all their Jewels of Silver and Jewels of Gold and Rayment and to give all such things as they required O wonderful conversion but yet Tantae molis erat c. So great difficulties had our great Patriarch Moses to encounter before he could arrive to be a Captain-General And now he has begun his most miraculous March with a Pillar of a Cloud before him for his Quita sol by day and a Pillar of fire for his Torch by night Yet Pharaoh will have another fling at him and thinks now by force of arms to destroy those abroad whom he could not securely keep at home in quiet bondage by all his arts and policies But behold the Prodigy of all Prodigies The Red Sea is cut into a Royal high-way for the Israelites and made a dreadful grave for the Egyptians Those mighty waters stand all on heaps and congeale themselves into walls as it were of brasse for the defence and safe passage of the people of God but dissolve themselves into liquid floods for the overthrow of Pharaoh and all his Chariots who were no sooner entred than overwhelmed and so they sunk down as lead in those mighty waters as our great Moses himself expresseth it in his Song of thanksgiving to God for that stupendious Deliverance I should be infinite if I went about to relate the Myriads of wonders that our Moses shewed afterwards in the Desart in the conduct of this chosen Army which quickly becoming faithlesse and mutinous yet by the prayers and for the sake of our most admirable Moses was the Almighty pleased never to forsake them but to feed them constantly with miracles showring Quailes upon them for flesh and the Bread of Heaven for them to eat and gave them continual Prodigies to drink from the very first bitter waters at Marah which he turned to be sweet to the strange tapping of the Rock in Horeb. So happy are the people who have the Lord for their God and so dear and dutiful a servant of his for their Leader as this our first Moses was and our second cannot but appear to be The Parallel I believe truly that there is no intelligent Person living that looks upon this long Story of our present Ascent but would take the particulars of the children