by the great Gregory Gigantes gemunt sub aquis the Gyants or great Men of the Earth do groan under the waters that is being drawn into a little disgrace by a furious torrent of envy they sigh and mourne as overwhelm'd in an ocean of calamities One frown of their Prince is more formidable to them than the look of a Basilisk and more terrible than the crack of Canon or thunder it self Besides what more base abject servil sort of men is there in the World they will bend and bow like a fishers angle they must stoop turn and wheel about to all purposes that they may arrive at their pretensions They buy all their honour at the price of pitifull submissions their Scarlet at the rate of sordid ambition and glory with the coin of slavery as is most excellently illustrated by eloquent Cyprian thus Qui amictu clariore conspicuus fulgere sibi videtur in Purpura c. Quibus hic sordibus emit ut fulgeat quot arrogantium fastus prius pertulit quas superbas fores matutinus salutator obsedit quot tumentium contumeliosa vestigia ante praecessit un ipsum etiam salutantium comes postmodum turba praecederet This silly Courtier saith he gazeth upon himself in Scarlet but how many base submissions has the luster of those cloths cost him how many scorns contempts and repulses has he swallowed from some more arrogant than himself how many proud gates has he besieged every day to perform his complements and how many times hath he made himself a stirrup-holder or foot-boy for the service of some disdainful Prince to gain this train that now attends upon himself Indeed such a condition is more to be pitied than envyed so it was well answered of an old Courtier when askt How he could continue so long in Court Injurias accipiendo saith he gratias agendo by receiving injuries thankfully Thus some men will fatten with affronts and disgraces as slavish dogs with bastenado's My Lords High Mosaick prudence in the mean time more feared than envyed that course of life and chose rather to lie hidden for many years in his little privacy of a safe and sweet retreat and a learned solitude like a true Princely Pearle under the waves then to be worn about the necks of Monarchs One of the greatest wits as well as Princes and the most vertuous man of a Pagan that ever was under heaven the Emperour Marcus Aurelius Antoninus in his Book that he writ of his own Life so much commends this kind of retirement which a wise man makes within himself that he assures us that in all the Palaces Gardens Orchards and Delicacies of all the Kings of the World there is nothing so delightful as it In which kind of life it is that a vertuous and knowing soul involves it self in its little shell and withdrawing it self out of the saltwaters of the World lives purely with the dew of heaven There it is where the soul which is scattered in an overwhelming multitude of affairs foldes it self within it self there it is where it begins truly to suck in its own sap there it is where it accommodates and prepares its hive like a busie Bee and endeavours to gather its honey to communicate to all the World There it is and onely there where it enters into a new world an intelligible world a peaceable world a world smiling with sweet serenity of air and radiant lights as becomes such a blessed solititude a true Temple of repose This was the Noble rich retirement that our glorious second Moses chose to place his soul in winding himâ—elf up in his private recesses as within his own bottom after the example of his great Prototype nor could he ever fear to faint or droop through any tedâ—ous mind-tiring idlenesse the consequent of most solitarinesses having such a stock of soul to improve as he had his Highnesse knew as well as that Scipio nunquam minus solus esse quà m cum solus and ut in solis sit sibi turba locis never to be less alone then when he was alone and to supply himself with company of himself as we shall see by the great profit he reaped by his learned solitude which will more clearly appear in the processe of our following Parallels The sixth Ascent MOses was most miraculously called by God from his retirement to undertake the deliverance care and conduct of his people the Lord appearing to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush This Ascent truly of our great Patriarch and Prototype Moses is so Prodigious and purely Divine that I cannot passe it without rendering a relation of the particular circumstances As our retired Moses was in the midst of his beloved solitude in the innocent society of his father-in-laws sheep and as he was leading his flock to the back side of the Desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burnt with fire and was not consumed And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great fight why the bush is not burnt And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush and said Moses Moses and he said Here am I and he said Draw not nigh hither put off the shooes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground Moreover he said c. The Parallel Out of this miraculous Call and Commission given to our first Moses we may clearly collect as a most remarkable Corollary that the Lord Amighty has not onely a most particular providence over the estates and governments of Princes but also a most extraordinary respect unto their persons vouchsafeing them frequently the favour and familiarity of his own discourses and that either by his own personal calling upon them as hear to our first Moses young Samuel and divers others as stupendious Stories or by the mission of Angels as to Abraham Loth and divers other Princes and Prophets of his people or else by dreams and visions as to Abimelech King of Gerar to forwarn him of Abrahams wife and the like So not onely the present text of our Ascent but the whole current of Scripture is consenting to our Corollary Nay this Divine favour was not onely wont to be conferred upon the Princes of Gods own people onely but to meer stranger Kings and sometimes Infidels As first to a former Pharaoh God sent a dream which Joseph afterwards interpreted by which the King prevented his own ruine and the destruction of his people by a dismal dearth So was the like favour vouchsafed to Alexander the Great as Quintus Curtius tells us whilst that victorious Prince maintained the siege of the City of Tyre by which means he was made soon Master of
have as much certainty as any humane authority experimental knowledge or ocular evidence can possibly make out Now I would fain know how two such mortal enemies as truth and flattery are can possibly squat in the same Form Besides it is certain that no beatified thing as our second Moses is now without dispute can be a subject capable of flattery but let his late Highnesse be reduced again to his humane condition and consider his due deservings then tell me whether all our grateful acknowledgements and most extended Panegyricks can possibly reach his transcendent merits Much lesse then sure can any man over-reach so far as to have his commendations reputed flattery unlesse he should fall into prophanation or flat blasphemy which I hope the most malitious eyes in the World shall never be able to finde out upon us here He was indeed more truly that which Pliny said of his Emperour Vir hoc saeculo major dignus fabulantium miraculis vatum qui tantum super omnes posterioris aevi Principes emine bat quantum a privatis caeteri principes recesserunt He was so much above the present pitch of men that nothing but Romance can reach his Actions and he as far surpassed all other princes of this later Age as any of those Princes have out-stript private persons What panegyrick then can be too great for such a prince what humane praise can ever amount to flattery I must in the mean time acknowledge something of obligation to this sort of enemies who are pleased to think my poor pen so capable to reach that as to over-reach it so which is a Subject onely fit for the pens of Angels and whose praises ought truly to be written with a stile of fire or point of Adamant and so engraven upon the gates of the Temple of Eternity Now though I have pretty well as I hope got my self clear of a possibility of flattery yet I am now cast upon another exception of my nearest friends whose kind pity treats me more rigourously than all the enemies cruelty and I must cry out with the Poet Pol me occidistis amici indeed at once they both pity and persecute me for undertaking so difficult if not impossible a task as to carve such an Illiad in a Nut-shell or to go about to bind up in such little skins so voluminous an Argument as to give the World an account of this incomparable person from his Cradle to his Grave a thing more equal to large History than a Paneygerical one and of which as the Evangelist tells us of our Saviours Words and Works that the whole World would not be able to contain the Books that might be written Indeed Gentlemen it will not be denied by any shall be more confest by me though parcel guilty of the same crime that he who shall take presumptious pen in hand or dare any other way undertake to give the World an exact Survey of all the particular great dispensations and Divine indulgencies vouchsafed to this high Favorite of Heaven will quickly find himself overset in a Sea of Blisse It is not therefore my Design at present to sail in much lesse to fathom that Abyss or delineate the whole Series of the Almighty providence over his most precious Person in every particular circumstance from the first span that Nature measured out to him to that immensity which he afterwards so happily arrived at it being no lesse than impossible as the curious in that Art inform us to polish so much as the nailes of pieces of so great a Perfection Nor indeed is it more impossible than impertinent to go about to prove that there is and has been ever from the first minute to the last of his life a most gracious and indulgent providence over his late most Serene Highnesse his person and proceedings by all the singular foot-steps of it it being to light a Candle to the Sun to dilucidate that which is already more clear to all that do not wilfully shut their eyes than if it had been written with the Rayes of it I shall therefore satisfie my self and I hope all ingenuous Readers at present to pick up some of the most remarkable particulars that we may best moralize to our own instruction and all impudent gainsayers greater confusion and that we may learn to make this use of it above all uses that is to march out of all our old animosities and submit our selves to the gracious power that is now over us and acknowledge it to be the clear resplendent Ray reflected upon us from the infallible foundations of the eternall Law This is the uttermost of my design at present and so I will be bold to begin at the foot of the Mosaick Mount and shew you his late most Serene Highnesse tracing the steps of the great Patriarch Moses to the sacred summity of the Mount it self and highest pitch of all princely perfection and make good the parallel from their very Births to their Triumphant entries into their blessed Tabernacle of Repose and there to the happy expiration of their purified Souls upon the top of Pisgah from thence to their glorious Graves and from thence to the Magnificent Memorials and Eternal Monuments which they have erected in the hearts of all men The Ascents which these two great Personages stand parallel in amounting in all to thirty Degrees of Glory So friends farewel and enemies much good do it you if you please fall to and welcome if you like it not you may leave it and though you curse me for my cookery yet I shall continue with the Apostle to pray for you That the Lord would give you understanding in all things and me his grace in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content and that we may all meet in the unity of the Spirit and bond of perfectnesse which holy conspiracy that we may all happily agree in we must all resolve to lay by all spleens and distasts whatsoever and let them passe away with the old year and think upon nothing now but to take up new thoughts and better affections with this new one coming in we must forget all old grudges against and ungrateful misprisions of our old departed Prince and good Protector who though he was an incomparable Person yet no wonder if he could not please all men for that is more they say than God himself can do raining or shining and dispose our selves to the cordial and sincere service of this our gracious new one who is now set over us by God and his own Divine vertues and has nothing in him but celestial sweetnesse and is truly to be called if ever Mortal was the Delight of all Mankind which Great and Gracious New-Years-Gift that we may all receive from the bountiful hands of Heaven shall be the constant as it is the instant prayer of Your humble servant H. Dawbeny The First ASCENT MOses was Nobly Born extracted from an extraordinary Race the most sacred
this folly though Scripture it self were sufficient I shall produce further evidence First Philo the Jew in his Book of the Life of Moses gives us the exact History of his education and assures us that he learned of Egyptian Masters Arithmetick Geometry Musick both Theorical and Practick together with all sorts of Philosophy and the Secrets of Hieroglyphicks In all which pieces of learning he grew to such perfection that he was acknowledged for a Master by the very Egyptians themselves insomuch that when Pythagoras and Plato came to learn the Sciences in Egypt they would first of all study the Doctrine of Moses whose name in those times as we find by them was in great admiration through all Egypt and it is more than probable that from his Books they did conceive all that Divinity which they have delivered and the reason of God which they declare under the notion of the first cause After them Numenius the famous Pythagorean wrote many things concerning Mosaical Doctrine as Basil the great restifies and Numenius addes that Plato himself was no other then Moses speaking in Greek Nay Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius both say that the Gentiles received all the very mysteries of their Religion from the Books of Moses though enfolding them in some odd fables and Orpheus himself confesseth that he learned divers things from the Doctrine of Moses especially in the Book which he made of the Sacred Word that he sayes himself he took out of the Mosaical Tables as also that which he sang concerning God known to the onely Chaldean Moses which Verses of his one Francis George has reduced into Latine in his Book of the Harmony of the World Nemo illum nisi Chaldaeo de sanguine quidam Progenitus vidit Now some have been of opinion that Orpheus meant by this Chaldean Noath and others Enoch and the Platonists took him for Zoroastres who was the son of Cham but the following words convince it could be no body else but Moses Priscorum nos haec docuerunt omnia voces Quae binis tabulis Deus olim tradidit illis Now to none of them were the Tables of the Commandments given but to Moses onely Thus we see he was not onely a perfectly well bred Schollar but the very Fountain of all our Learning A most excellent Natural Philosopher he must needs be for that learning then flourisht most there and besides sure he must needs know the true causes of all things that was so well acquainted with all the Almighties Counsels of Creation then for his skill in Moral and Politick Philosophy it must be altogether as undeniable being intrusted with the supream Civil and Military power over Gods own people for so many years and holding forth to us still such Moral Political Laws and Constitutions that will never be matcht by any Legislator in the World Then for his Divinity there need be sure as little doubt who had the constant conversation with God himself and did by particular direction from him couch all the sacred Mysteries of Religion in the several joynts and pieces of the Tabernacle and the very hems of Aarons garments as may appear more at large in his last four Books The Parallel We have hitherto convers't in the Mosaical out-works onely and seen these two high Favourits of Heaven our first and second Moses marching hand in hand together in most amicable Parallel through some remarkable Ascents of their Infancy We are now happily entering into the Inner Moses and to reflect something upon the dispositions of their Adolescency which there is no doubt but we shall find very agreeable to their Births And indeed one of the greatest benefits which youth can receive at the hands of God is the favourable blessing of a good education it is that which polisheth and purifieth humane Nature as one would do a precious Stone obscured with earth or base ordure it is that which as a late Doctor tells us makes of men as it were Angels and without it doubtlesse the goodliest and most precious natures would perpetually dwell in a sad brutishnesse But above all others Princes ought to have an extraordinary advantage of Learning for it is highly necessary sure that their souls should be fullest of lights and flames which are to serve others for so great guides and to be most exquisitly adorned with good letters who know as doubtlesse our second Moses did from his Cradle that they are to be set aloft upon pinacles to change their words into Laws and lives into examples And he that was to be Supream Magistrate of so many Nations ought sure with incessant study read unite and incorperate in his sole self the vertues and faculties of many others And so our glorious second Moses did who was no lesse remarkable for his true Liberal Noble Princely education than the former And truly for this we must acknowledge eternal obligations to his Highnesse his most honourable Parents who had a principal care to perfect the natural endowments of their Child with those of Art to the shame of many fathers and mothers at this day who too much resemble Ostriches who lay their eggs in the open way without hatching them abandoning their children to become a prey to misery ignorance and impiety But his Highnesse most illustrious Parents desirous to live in the honour of their incomparable Child and to give him a breeding equal to his Nobility Beauty and Ingeny and to those miraculous preservations by which he was pointed out by Providence to be a future Instrument of Divine wonders as the former Moses was would give him an education equal to his And it is notorious that he suckt in a very great proportion of Philosophy with the first milk that he drew from his Mother University as also he devoured many other Pieces of prophane learning which may be were supererrogatory in a Prince yet by that means he merited to be then as much thought the glory of the Gown as he has since prov'd himself the honour of the Sword for he attained to so stupendious a pitch of Learning in so few years that all that knew him then thought it rather came which was suspected upon the former Moses too by inspiration than acquisition and who could then but admire those fair blossomes of which we have seen since such excellent fruits Nor can there be lesse doubt of his perfection in Political knowledge made by any man that will but look upon his most Serene Highnesse his Government either Civil or Military over us or the Laws that he has establisht for the eternal safety and comfort of these Nations And as for Divinity I mean that of the heart that Grand Cardinal Piece and most principal part of Royal Learning we all know that was bred and born with him a Divinity I say not lodg'd in the Schools that is too knotty sure for Princes heads but that which is reposed in godly hearts and
pious late Protector and second Moses could never induce himself to court any thing that had not Heaven and the Stars to give him for a Reward So I hope we may at length happily conclude that under the heart of this our second as well as we have seen under that of our first Moses there remained alwayes prepared a Temple of true Piety and our Parallel in this particular likewise to be accomplisht The two and twentieth Ascent MOses was not onely accomplisht in all points of Piety that were expedient for so great a Prince and Patriarch but he was advanced by God to the highest dignity and perfection of a Prophet and he was endowed with so extraordinary a spirit of Prophesie that never any man before or since him had the like He was that really which the old Poets in their fabulous superstitions fancied of their god Janus with his double face to look both before and behind him The Great Moses was an inspired Prophet à parte Post as well as à parte Ante how could he otherwise have writ the History of the Creation of the World the Deluge and of all those things that happened before his time of which there could be no Record either in writing or secure Tradition at that time so his whole Book of Genesis must of necessity be extracted out of the Chronicles of Heaven onely That he prophesied of futurities of the highest concernment his other four Books give sufficient evidence and to all this the Lord Almighty himself hath set to the seal of his own approbation first that he was faithful in all his house and that with him he would speak mouth to mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold c. Then the Lord is pleased expressely to declare concerning him That there arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face Over and above all this when prophesying of the Mystery of Mysteries a futurity then of the highest concernment to mankind the incarnation of the Word the Spirit of God is pleased to resemble Moses to the Messiah that was to come saying The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy Brethren like unto me unto him ye shall hearken which words are verbatim quoted for the proof of that Word incarnate both by the Proto-Apostle Peter and the Proto-Martyr Stephen and sure in reason some great similitude of God he must needs contract who had so free frequent and full conversation with the Deity face to face The Parallel That Moses was a great yea the greatest Prophet of the old Law I believe is made abundantly manifest by our Divine Ascent and that our most pious gracious and glorious late Lord Protector and second Moses was a great Prophet too according to his proportion I hope will be made out by the processe of our precious Parallel But now because the name of Prophet here seems to sound something equivocal and is really capable of very various acceptions it may be worth our pains to dilate a little upon and to fix it before we proceed to make up our happy Parallel Indeed there has been an infinite number of persons which have past under the reputation of Prophets that in very truth were no better than Wizards all or Wiseakers in our Country Language that is in plain English mad-men fools or knaves but all such phanatical Prophets as those we shall at present passe by as impertinent to our purpose and not at all worthy of any share in this discourse and enter into a cursory debate onely concerning those who have more justifiable pretensions according to the most genuin signification of the word to that highest and most sacred humane dignity and three sorts of men there are that do and may lay just challenge and claim to that most excellent Title according to all the judgement of Antiquity as well as the present Age. And the first are those inspired witty Prophets or Prophets of phansie which go under the common name of Poets The second sort are those inspired prudent Prophets or Prophets of Affairs received now under the stile of Statesmen And the third sort are those inspired Divine Prophets or Prophets of Religion who though they have the onely true legal and proper right to that Divine honour yet the others are not quite to be cast out or rashly disinherited of that title The first we may call Aery or Poetical Prophets the second more Earthy and Political the third all Fiery and Celestial For this first sort of Prophets our Moses was amongst them too as is sufficiently to be seen in the many Hymnes that he composed for the glory of his God and the comfort of his people as also the many Poetical expressions phrases and prosopopiea's that he useth rendring God as it were coming towards us in his glory and Majesty This first sort of Pretenders then have indeed a pretty fair claim right and title to be taken into this supereminent Degree and that may first here appear from the very name that all good people in all Ages ever gave to the skilful in that heavenly mystery which was alwayes Vates or Propheta as much as Diviner Forseer or Prophet Then none will deny but that they had the onely right in times of Gentilisme being the onely Pagan Prophets and Conservators of Religion in those dayes Nay both Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius themselves confesse that the ancient Poets did receive the mysteries of their Religion from the Jews and preserved them still as sacred though folding of them up in some Fables As first it is plain that the History of Deucaleon was taken out of that of Noe and so kept up the remembrance still of that dismal Deluge The stupendious Story of the retrogradation and going back of the Sun in the time of Ezekiah was continued in that famous fiction of Phaeton They that would behold the building of that proud Tower of Babel which was undertaken by Nimrod and his Associates to climb up as it were by ladders into Heaven and scale its battlements to see what was done there shall find it though under certain alegories amply described in Homer under the fabulous phansie of the Gyants Oetus and Ephialtes sons to Iphimedia where he describes their height and wonderfull vast strength and bignesse and how they went about to lay the mountain Ossa upon that of Olympus and Pelion upon Ossa all which Story Ovid recites likewise with divers others in his Metamorphosis hiding under seeming Fables many of the most Divine and considerable truths but most particularly he recites the manner of the Beginning and Creation of the World just as our Moses did and must of necessity have received it from him Nay Homer Hesiod and Linus must undoubtedly have borrowed from his Books all that they
can imagine his inspired wisdom to be capable of such a defect that are not themselves like those old Monsters called the Lamiae which were alwayes blind within their own doors and could onely make use of their eyes when they were from home Then lastly how could he be unknowing to those perfections which all the Nation has been so satisfied in for these many years that he has been with reverence lookt upon and admired as an Angel descending from Heaven and vouchsafing to let himself be inchased within a humane body a Prince of so incomparable sweet and excellent disposition that he may be worthy indeed to be called the dear delight of God as well as man And that this was the judgement of all the World concerning him I shall instance in one person for all who was not long since a member of that most beautiful body before mentioned I mean that most famous and flourishing University of Oxford who drew an anagrammatical Prophesie out of Virgil foretelling the glorious Fate of this happy Prince now near two years since and presently upon his acceptance of that most unvalueable honour to be their Chancellor which because has proved so exactly true a Prophesie I have thought fit to publish my friends paper to the perusall of all the World and insert it here presuming that neither he nor any wise man else will be offended at it Celsissimo ac Gratiosissimo Domino Domino Richardo Cromvel Seremissimi Domini Protectoris Filio Primogenito Celeberrimae Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellario Honoratissimo Anagramma Genethliacum EPITHALAMIUM O Richarde Cromvel magnus es Majori nubis Chara Dei soboles Magnum Jovis Incrementum SIccine Virgilius credendus Numine plenus Quis furor inflatus sacrum rapit usque Prophetam Vt Nobis tua clara vetus Natalia Vates Praedicat simul sponsam Quae denique Major Cum siet atque etiam verè tu Magnus habendus Quid tua Progenies fuerit nisi Maxima Princeps O Fortunatos Natâ istâ Prole Britannos Noster Oliverus Magnus Sic ut usque virere Possit aeternos aetate requireret annos Hoc sceptrum semper quatiat Cromvellia Proles Vivat Imperium teneat Primo vel ab Ortu Solis ad Hesperium Cubile sic Anglia vivat Sic vovet optat Prohpetizat Amplitudinis vestrae Servus Observantissimus To the most Illustrious Lady of the Thrice Noble Lord My Lord RICHARD CROMWEL An Explication of the Virgilian ANAGRAMM Madam THough Virgil ben't much your acquaintance yet You must confesse you owe him no small debt Thus to foretel your Princely Husbands Birth His Fortunes and his Honours upon Earth Your Name and Marriage too all which does lie Wrapt up we see in 's Antique Prophesie He calls your Lord Great Increment of Jove What then must th' issue be of your chast love He 's great we know and you a Major see How can your Children less than Maxims be On those fair Pillars our Protector stands You give him Rulers over Seas and Lands Your swelling Womb's the Cushion where he leanes And findes himself eternal by your means So may your Olive branches flourish still About Great Oliver and his Thrones up fill So prayes and Prophesies Madam Your Ladiships most obedient Servant Now for his most Serene Highnesse his happy Birth there is none sure will deny it to be great as his that pretended his extraction from mighty Jupiter and we may more truly say of him than could be fancied of those old Heroes that Deus est in utroque Parente God was apparently in each Parent Then for his blessed Marriage the next thing pointed at in the Prophesie that can be comparable to nothing more than to the sacrifice of Juno where the gall of the offering was never presented There was so faithful and pure a love observed to be on both sides that the Noble spirit of the one lived wholly in the other and as the Flowers of the Sun perpetually followed the motions of each others heart so they still continue to court each the others vertuous dispositions All this I say is the Anagrammatical Prediction of Virgil himself and as to those sublime Honours and Fortunes which his Highnesse has since arrived at all that proves to be my friends proper Prophesie Now whether Virgil or my Friend were the greater Prophet let the World judge whilst I shall satisfie my self with that great felicity which our second Moses took in the contemplation of his most gracious Sons and Successors perfections upon whom methinks I see him in his old Princely and Fatherly Majesty now looking down from the top of the holy Mount encouraging his most excellent son to climb up after him and keep the track of his Ascents Nay methinks I hear God Almighty himself speaking to his now most Serene Highnesse as he did before to Joshua There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the dayes of thy life as I was with my second Moses so I will be with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake thee Be strong and of a good courage for unto this people shalt thou divide for an Inheritance the Land which I sware unto their Fathers to give them onely be thou strong and very couragious that thou mayst observe to do according to the Law which Moses my Servant commanded thee turn not from it either to the right hand nor to the left that thou mayst prosper whithersoever thou goest This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayst observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good successe Have not I commanded thee Be strong and of a good courage be not afraid neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest Thus was the Lord pleased to discourse with Joshua And now methinks I hear all the people of this Land crying out to our most Serene Prince and Protector just as the children of Israel did there likewise in the same Chapter to their General Joshua All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go according as we hearkned unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee onely the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses Whosoever he be that does rebell against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death onely be strong and of a good courage With these Divine speeches made by God himself and his instruments the people upon the inauguration of Joshua methinks I hear our present Lord Protector and Princely second Joshua treated at this very day What Divine documents his sacred Highness has received from the Almighty are onely yet betwixt the Lord and