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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

years old when he died his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab thirty dayes so the daies of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended The Parallel Thus we see how our pious Patriarch has no sooner taken order for a sufficient successor for himself and a convenient Captain for his people but he does most readily dispose himself for his last great journey and Ascent and most cheerfully marcheth up the fatal Mount whilest every step that he took drew blood from the hearts of his poor disconsolate and most afflicted people who followed him with their eies where they could not with their persons nay made their tears to reach him when the sight of their eyes had lost him forcing those floods contrary to the course of other waters to run violently upwards and with an ascending stream bedew every footstep of their precious deer Prince and beloved Patriarch All the happy joys and thorough contentments that they did receive from their brave new Master and Captain General Joshua could never make them forget their old dear deliverer and conductor Moses So true it is what is observed by all Astrologers that every Planet which has its exaltation in one Sign finds ever its counterpoises in another nor can there be any good successe in humane affairs on one side but it is presently paid on the other with some discontent Just thus and no otherwise did our great Protector and gracious second Moses depart from us who receiving from the Almighty the summons of his approaching death whilest he was in the plains of Moab in his House or Palace of Country retirement as speedily and cheerfully as the former Moses did prepared himself to march up to this Metropolitical Mount even to the top of Pisgah his own Palace here where after he had appointed his happy Successor and taken careful order about the affairs of these Kingdoms as well as of his own Family and taken leave of all his Friends and Familiars and dearly beloved Army her rendred up his soul to his God and Saviour as sweetly as little children use to fall asleep upon the breasts of their Nurses leaving us in the mean time drowned in the deluges of our own tears and the sorrow was so general that one would have thought that every house was bearing of their first born to burial nothing was to be seen amongst us but tears nor heard but groans yellings horrors astonishments and representations of death And whereas the people of Israel mourned but thirty daies for their Moses we have lamented the losse of ours more than thrice thirty daies and yet are not wearied with weeping but dolori etiam fesso stimulos addidimus novos we have set spurs to our tired sorrows and upon any occasion of his mentioning those flood-gates are so continually open that they have almost made an inundation upon us and we may still see him sailing through all the good peoples eyes of the Nation and floating upon the salt waters that himself has made For my part I must profess that whilest my Pen is passing over this story I cannot choose but commix the sorrowful water of my eyes with my mourning ink so may be pardoned I hope if at present I write any thing disorderly as indeed I have done all but cannot doubt that the candour of those spirits which are touched with the like passion will out of pitty pardon mine Nay indeed what English man is there that would not be out of love with life since he has pleased to embrace death satis enim vixit qui vitan cum Principe tanto explevit for has he not lived long enough in this world that can be so happy as to march out of it in the company of such a Prince But I must confesse I am to blame nor can I but rebuke my self as it is fit I should before I can reprove others for this unruly unchristian and indeed unreasonable passion For first it is a most manifest repining both against the hand of God and him for the Lord has now placed him in his happy Tabernacle of Repose and absolv'd his immortal soul from all the toilsome fetters and ligaments of flesh as the divine Plato though a Pagan well expresseth it when he saies Pater misericors illis mortalia vincula faciebat God herein saith he hath most mercifully provided like an indulgent father for seeing that the soul of man was like to be shut up within the body as in a prison he hath in his great mercy made its chains to be mortal How much more then ought we Christians to apprehend the happinesse of death that know that very day which we account the last of our lives is to be the first of our felicities nay it is to be the birth of another eternal day which must draw aside the Curtain and discover to us the greatest secrets of nature it is the day that must produce us to those great and divine lights which we behold here onely with the eye of faith in this vale of tears and miseries It is the happy day which must put us between the arms of the Heavenly Father after a course of an unquiet life turmoiled still with storms and so many disturbances Who is so sottish as not to see that we are at this present in the world as in the very belly or womb of nature like little infants destitute both of air and light and can onely look towards and contemplate the happinesse of blessed souls separate from bodies What pleasure must it be then to go out of a dungeon so dark a prison so streight from such infinite ordures and miseries to enter into those spacious Temples of eternal splendors where our being never shall have end our knowledge shall admit no ignorance nor love or joy suffer a change The old Poets themselves did alwayes fancy that there was some happinesse extraordinary in death which the gods as they said did cunningly conceal from us that men should endure to live they are the very words of one of them Mortalesque dii caelant ut vivere durent felix esse mori Other Heathens there were that by meet force of Philosophy could tell us that the body was to the soul as the shadow of the earth in the eclipse of the Moon and do we not see how this bright Planet which illuminates our nights seems to be very unwillingly captivated in the dark but labours and sparkles with striving to get aloft and free it self from those dull earthly impressions So did his late Highnesse his most illustrious and faithful soul most readily untwine and disingage it self from his body well knowing it had a much better house in the inheritance of God which is not a manufacture of men but a monument of the hands of the great Artificer where he will be much more delighted to see the Sun Moon and stars

matches that could see hatred and approbation march in couples together and I shall willingly grant so much more to our Machiavillian Politicks that some mixture of fear with love does make the most excellent composition in Government for though the strongest Citadel or Castle that a King can have be his subjects affection and their hearts his best Treasury or Exchecquer yet it cannot be denyed that love without fear quickly turns to scorn and fear without love as soon converts to hatred both equally dangerous to any Prince his estate Now though Machiavel and his crew did never know how to be so good Apothecaries of State yet our prudent Patriarch and his Parallel our late Protector we see understood full well how to make that admirable mixture for though they were great Justicers alwayes yet never forgot to be most loving Fathers of their people and in that sacred composition rests not onely the mystery but the luster of a true Statesman as the Great Gregory assures us who sayes that in every good Government there must be such a mixture made of oil and wine that the wounds of men may be healed in such sort that their minds may not be ulcerated with too much severity nor yet grow too remisse by an excesse or indulgence and lenity the rod must be used to touch and the staff to support and then they will both be comfortable to us as the Psalmist tells us The scale of Justice must be so equally carried that neither love should too much soften nor over-great rigour transport people into a despair This right Princely temper I say was perfectly understood by our gracious Patriarch Moses the first and greatest Statesman in the World and no lesse by our glorious second Moses his Parallel Behold them both burning inwardly with the fire of charity towards their people and outwardly wholly enkindled with the flames of the zeal of Justice as loving Fathers they have offered their souls to God even to the wish To be blotted out of the Book of Life to save their people and as glorious Judges they took the Sword in hand and bathed it in the blood of wicked men They have shewed themselves in all things such accomplisht Captains as became couragious Magistrates and Embassadours from God and admirable Mediators to him pleading before him the cause of their people with prayers and before the people the cause of God with their swords and though there is none which can deny but our second Moses his zeal to Justice was very great a Divine vertue in him yet we must acknowledge that his benignity mansuetude and clemency were vertues more naturall and agreeable to him which he alwayes improved too both by the pattern of his Master Moses and God himself who as the Scripture tells us Etiam iratus misericordiae recordatur In his very wroth remembers mercy and shews his anger to us more often by Thunder Lightning fiery Comets blazing Stars Storms and Tempests and the like than he makes us to feel it nor yet sends them so often as we deserve which the Pagan Poet could observe when he told us Si quoties peccent homines c. If Jupiter should spend his angry Thunderbolts so often as men deserve them he would very suddenly disarme himself but Christianly indeed we may say thus That if his Divine Majesty should disarme it self of mercy we should quickly be reduced to misery and therefore it was that he commanded our Moses to follow his example and carry the people in his bosome like sucking children and loudly proclaims in his Word that Misericordia veritas custodiunt Regem roboratur clementiâ Thronus ejus Mercy and Truth are the greatest guard for Kings and Clemency is the greatest support of their Thrones All this I say our second Moses has sufficiently shewed himself to know and follow and yet his Clemency has never exposed him to those extremes before spoken of to render his goodnesse contemptible no he happily arrived at the blessed mixture and sweet composition that we have remarkt in our first Moses and alwayes ruled us according to the holy Rule given by an ancient Father Eâ qui praeest mensurâ se moderetur quatenus arridens timeri iratus amari debeat He that is set over men to govern them ought to carry himself with that moderation so as to be feared when he is pleased and to be amiable in his very displeasure This was the very Mosaical temper of our late precious Lord Protector who had so much of that Divine Art of compounding his sweetnesse with severity that we may safely say for truth though a very prodigious one that his Justice and his Love though both they are said to be blind did yet lend one another eyes he so sweetned his Sword with his Love and so sharpened his Love with his Sword that his very severity might seem to proceed from his love and his punishments themselves put on the face of obligations Castigavit non quod odio habuit sed quod amavit As he reformed alwayes by his favours so were his chastisements still turned into true fatherly corrections The eighteenth Ascent MOses was not only an accomplisht Prince in all kinds of Pity and Piety towards the persons of his People but he did extend it likewise towards their very Purses restraining frequently their abundancies of love in all their contributions and very liberalities not onely towards himself but to God In short he kept not the course of common Policy which renders Princes little better than Publicans he exacted nothing but love from his subjects nor imposed any thing upon them but their own happinesse The Parallel We have seen at large in our last Ascent as well by the practise of our two Mosaical Masters as divers other elucent arguments that singular Axiom made good which tells us That dinturni magister officii metus esse nequit Fear alone can never contain men in a lasting duty for otherwise the Devils policy would have more influence upon the hearts of men than that of God himself It is the part of every petit Minister of Justice to use cruelty and severity but the practise of pity and clemency though it becomes all men does most properly belong to Kings and Supreme Magistrates Regia crede mihi res est succurrere Lapsis Non alia major quaeritur arte Favor Pity and Clemency are Princes priviledges and parts of their prerogative Justice it self can be but their duty at most but the onely art of Government consists in the excellent mixture before spoken of in our last Ascent And therefore Alexander being askt who was the greatest Prince upon earth answered Qui amicos donis retinet inimicos beneficiis amicos facit He that holds his friends fast by curtesies and converts enemies into friends by benefits So dealt Augustus with Cinna and made of a Traytor a true Friend And this has alwayes been the wisest Kings

mending are no great matters but the least flaw in a Diamond is hugely considerable yea their personal faults become National injuries It is held by the Learnedst amongst the Ancients that when the Sun stood still in the time of Joshua the very Moon and all the Stars did make the like pause so all Princes and Governours whose spirit is the first wheel whereunto all the other are fastned it is necessary should give a good and godly motion Our sacred second Moses therefore found himself as his Princely Archetype before him did obliged to be exemplary to his people in all kindes of piety proposing no Highnesse to himself equal to that which he enjoyed in his humiliation before his God he never found himself well at ease but when he was paying those duties of piety praise honour and glory reverend service and worship to his Divine Majesty Insomuch that we may more truly say of him that which the Pagan Orator said of his Emperour Sanctiores effecit ipsos Deos exemplo suae venerationis He made the gods themselves more holy by the example of his pious worship that is he gave a reverence extraordinary to Religion by his manner of serving it The verity of this is evident for we find that he has so happily inflamed all his people about him and such as well studied him to so high a pitch of piety by his most exemplary good words and works that we can esteem them no otherwise than as Thunder-claps to Hindes for the powerful production of Salvation His Highnesse was unquestionably one of the greatest patterns of Princely piety that ever the World produced since that of our first Moses He had so great a fear of the Lord that he apprehended the least shadow of sin as death Then he had a love so tender towards his God that his heart was alwayes as a flaming lamp that burnt perpetually before the Sanctuary of the living Lord. His faith had a bosome as large as that of eternity his hope was as the bow of Heaven ail furnisht with Emralds which can never loose its force more than they their luster and so his piety must of necessity have been an eternal source of blessings His care to gather together so many living-stones for the edification of Gods house that is to say so many good godly and religious men has been more than all theirs that have heapt together so many dead ones in stately piles of Temples Finally his whole heart we know was perpetually towards God his feet were ever walking towards the Church or his other devout retirements his armes were perpetually employed in all manly and pious exercises and works of charity and his whole body was most dutifully disposed to the sacrifices and victims of his soul and both his soul and body with all his faculties were a constant Holocaust to the Lord Insomuch that neither all the cares and confusions of this World nor multiplicity of affairs that he has been ever involved in have been at all able to withdraw any part or parcel of him from the course of true piety but he has alwayes appeared in the midst of all those encombrances as those sweet Fountains which we read of that are found in the salt-sea or those happy fishes that do still preserve their plump white substance fresh and free from the infection of all the brackish waters that they live in his pious spirit could be never so much disturbed as to be extinguisht or taken off from the refreshment of his devotions as we shall see more at large in our next Ascent and happy Parallel The twentieth Ascent MOses was endowed by God with a most singular gift and spirit of prayer by which he was extraordinary powerful with the Lord and prevailed with him almost how he pleased We find in the sacred Text that he had so great a familiarity with the Lord that he was called the friend of God it is no wonder then that he should be endowed with so extraordinary a spirit of prayer the onely means to communicate with the Almighty and violently perswade him to divert his indignation from his people First let us see how by the power of our Moses his prayers and by the frequent spreading of his hands before and crying unto the Lord all the plagues that were inflicted upon hard-hearted Pharaoh himself and his perverse people were graciously removed By the same powerful means does he appease the great anger of the Lord kindled against his own rebellious people for their frequent murmurings and clamorous repinings against himself and his servant Moses imputeing constantly no lesse than murder base ambition and malitious designs unto him yet for all that the Lord confers nothing but miracles upon them at the importunity of our Moses his prayers And first he makes bitter waters sweet for such unsavory sinners as they were then he procures bread to fall down from heaven as from a replenisht Oven to fill their rebellious bellies Then no lesse than a stony-rock yet not so hard as their obdurate hearts must be set on broach and made to afford a River of water to satisfie their contumacious thirsts In short our Moses prevailed so often with his prayers to mollifie the Lords displeasure against them that one would think that reades the Story there had been a vy between mercies and rebellions and a sharp contention between the Lord and them whether they should offend or he forgive oftenest Then see the unnatural sedition of his brother Aaron and his companion Miriam and her leprosie cured by his prayer But there is one thing yet that we may well instance in for all when the peoples inveteratenesse in sin had added idolatry to all their other disobediences and made themselves worse than beasts in rendering the honours due to God alone to a pitiful creature of their own makeing a gay Golden Calf forsooth and the Lord was so highly offended with them that he would have utterly destroyed them all for it then our Moses betook himself again to this his tryed weapon of prayer and openly assaults the Lord so with his close arguments expostulations and importunities as if he had been fencing with him beseeching him after this most earnest and humble manner Lord why doth thy wroth wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth of the Land of Egypt with a great power and with a mighty hand wherefore should the Egyptians say for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth Turn thee from thy fierce wroth and repent thee of this evil against thy people Remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy servants to whom thou swarest by thine own self and saidst unto them I will multiply your seed as the Stars of Heaven and all this Land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed and they shall inherit it forever Then the Text