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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

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

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 him●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 ted●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 quàm 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