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A88807	Peplum olivarii, or A good prince bewailed by a good people. Represented in a sermon October 13. 1658. upon the death of Oliver late Lord Protector. By George Lawrence A.M. minister of Crosses Hospital.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?	1658 (1658)	Wing L659; Thomason E959_4; ESTC R207645	20,778	41

with the Netherlanders but with France Portugal and Swethland also Witnesse his disciplining of the Army his encouraging of Trade and Merchandizing his general care for the preservation of the whole the timous preventing of Hostilities abroad and the speedy crushing of Cockatrices in the egge at home his neglecting of a Crown when offered with many pressive and expressive Parliamentary perswasions his passing so many advantagious bills the last Parliament Begun Anno 1656. his unspeakable condescension to do the meanest offices for the welfare of unthankful men insomuch that he was pleased to acknowledge that in the juncture of broyles he did but execute the trust of a Constable to keep all quiet and what is Constabularius but a stable-Groom to make unruly horses tame and stand together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith * Ethio●ic Heliodorus the Prince did seem to serve so that what an Italian Discourser said there was never any State so swadled in its infancy as the Roman was by the first King may be better said of this Protector And what * Pro Deiotare multa sunt tuae clementiae Monumenta sed maxime eorum incolumitates Cicero said of King Deiotarus let me say of him that truly many were the Monuments of his kindnesse but especially this the Peoples safety and preservations 4. In his valour from the Garrison of Ely to the last Worcester fight his faith many times subdued before he struck a stroak and his name was more terrible than that of * Turcomastix Scanderbeg Plus nominis horror Quam tuus ensis aget When England Scotland and Ireland were all in a blaze he was the Ransomer of the Nations and the common extinguisher and quench-coal The Army at Marston-moore were put into a quaking ague but at the report of his being in hurt and in danger At Tredagh he stood himself in the breach before the mouth of the thundering Cannon where gallant Colonel Castle and others were slain He was the long Parliaments battle-axe on every turn as Edgar Etheling he was Englands darling and the Parliament could be no lesse without him than Henry the eighth could be without the assistance of Thomas Cromwel Earle of Essex the root of this Glorious Branch He was called Malleus Monachorum in specie Martyrolog but Renowned Oliver was Malleus Inimicorum the mawle of enemies in the very genus and if the Lord Protector in the Reign of King Edward the sixth purchased so much honour in one battle at Muscleborough field in the year 1548. then much more were the laurels of him who disputed so many hot battels with successe at Preston Marston-moore Dunbar Worcester Nazby c. Quae Regio in terris nostri non plena laboris So that I may speak of him what was spoken of Charles the great that he was a good Prince and a valiant Souldier and such was his valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that as Scipio by Rome and Camillus by Fabius Maximus so he was envied living and is now admired being dead Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus invidi * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Ajace As Sophocles speaks men never prize a mercy but when it is gone and saith Solomon Prov. 17.16 There is a price in the hand of a fool and he hath no heart to it and one thing more I cannot bury in silence he alwayes gave very honourable termes and articles of war and was as punctual in making them good which rendred himself in the eyes of the vanquished and the world truly honourable * Sparguntur in omues In te mixta fluunt quae Divisa bea●●s Efficiunt collectatenes Claridian Those lines of Honour which by refractions ran dispersedly in others in him were knit up as their natural centre and what made others happy in division was in him a Colledge of vertues solemnly met and seated 5. In his Prudence and mannaging of Affaires both Military and Civil as Pliny saith of Mauricius the Emperour * Vir grav● prulea● multis experimentis eruditus qui futura possit ex praeteritis providere Epistol he was a man grave prudent taught by many experiences and who could fore-see things to come by what was past As for Civil Affairs he had with Vespasian learned what was the overthrow of the Lutinist Nero in winding the pins of Government sometimes too high and sometimes letting them down too low and * Chytraeus in Herodotum that the destruction of Astyages Croesus and Xerxes was cruelty pride and ambition and that the establishment of the Common-wealth of Cyrus Dioces Darius Miltiades Themistocles Pausanias and others was by prudence he did as Charles the fifth said of a good Ruler like Saturne the highest planet move slowly doing all things with deliberation * Ne quid respublica caperet detrim●mi that the Common-wealth might take no harme And as for Military Affairs his prudence was not inferiour both in the Discipline of the Army and in his frequent Orations at the heads of Regiments before engaging to encourage them both against the fear of the enemy and death Nulla vox humana existima tur dulciùs He rodotores maximas narrare adeò ut Musae à veteribus fingantur ore Herodoti esse locutae as if every Muse had given books to this Herodotus No mans voice is thought to relate great things more sweetly than Herodotus so that the Muses were feigned by the Ancients to have spoken in his mouth of whom thus Frisius sings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. In his diligence about the guards at night insomuch that about the evening dusk he would ride Incognito as a private Souldier to take a view of the Guards and the Souldiers duty His presence like that of Europus King of Macedonia did animate them and the speech of Sulpitius Galba to his was still in reciprocation Ego vester vos mei I am yours and you are mine 7. In his love and affability as was evident in addresses to him as I my self was an eye-witnesse at Barkhampsted 1647. when the head-quarters were there That what * Omnes semper in Deiotaro virtutes sed praecituè singularis admiranda frugalitas fuit fortis justus severus gravis magnanimus largus beneficus liberalis Hae sunt Regiaelaudes Tully said of King Deiotarus may be to him applied all these vertues were eminent in Deiotarus but especially his singular and admirable frugality he was strong just severe grave magnanimous large kind and liberal These these are the Royal praises of the glorious Saint 8. In his death in that he died 1. With much assurance as to himself like holy Paul 2 Tim. 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith and though the Senate hath deservedly adorned him dead with a Crown and other Regal Ensignes which living he refused There is laid up for him a Crown of righteousness a Crown