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.
Claud.
de
Theodos
.
Solus
meruit
regnare
rogatus
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Nathaniel
Brook
,
at
the
Angel
in
Cornhill
.
1659.
To
the
Most
Serene
HIGHNESSE
,
OF
RICHARD
By
the
Grace
of
God
,
LORD
PROTECTOR
,
Of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
,
&c.
Chara
Dei
soboles
,
magnum
Jovis
Incrementum
.
PArdon
,
Great
Sir
,
the
compellation
;
for
though
it
be
a
piece
of
an
Aenead
(
some
will
think
of
flattery
)
yet
it
is
very
manifestly
,
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
his
Birth-Right
,
and
plain
prophetick
truth
,
Third
Transcend
.
Ascent
,
p.
271.
as
is
made
more
clearly
to
appear
in
one
of
those
Parallels
,
that
treat
of
your
happy
Promotion
and
Succession
to
the
Throne
,
where
you
now
sit
.
As
for
the
imputation
of
flattery
,
it
is
known
,
that
I
have
ever
so
much
abhorred
from
all
that
,
and
those
subtile
Artists
of
Fortune
,
who
make
a
Trade
of
it
,
that
whilst
I
have
been
conversant
in
the
Courts
of
some
great
Princes
,
and
particularly
known
to
many
of
their
persons
,
I
have
been
alwayes
most
severely
taxt
,
of
too
much
of
the
other
extreme
:
much
lesse
should
I
dare
to
offer
any
thing
of
that
now
,
to
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
who
are
known
to
hold
so
much
of
the
vertue
,
of
your
most
Renowned
Father
in
you
,
as
to
be
better
pleased
to
meet
with
an
enemy
,
in
open
field
,
than
a
flattering
friend
in
your
Privy
Chamber
.
Insomuch
,
that
I
am
afraid
to
tell
your
Highnesse
,
some
notorious
truths
;
how
all
we
your
people
,
look
upon
you
,
as
our
second
Joshua
,
in
the
place
of
our
second
Moses
,
as
full
of
the
spirit
of
Wisdom
,
Courage
,
and
Piety
,
as
he
was
,
and
that
we
cannot
at
all
doubt
,
but
your
successes
will
be
likewise
most
proportionable
to
his
;
how
Walls
,
and
Cities
,
shall
fall
before
you
,
Gyants
wax
pale
,
Rivers
retire
back
,
the
Sun
it self
stand
still
,
and
as
many
Kings
will
undergoe
your
yoke
.
I
am
afraid
to
tell
you
Sir
,
how
we
,
that
are
your
people
,
are
all
of
us
employ'd
,
in
planting
more
Bayes
,
and
Laurel
in
our
Gardens
,
to
en-garland
your
Victorious
browes
,
before
you
come
to
a
Battle
.
In
fine
,
I
am
afraid
to
tell
you
,
how
all
our
hearts
,
like
Roses
,
withered
upon
the
death
of
your
glorious
Father
,
now
begin
again
to
bloom
afresh
,
and
newly
to
open
our selves
,
at
the
benigne
,
gentle
,
&
glorious
,
Princely
Aspect
,
of
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
:
No
,
I
know
to
tell
your
goodnesse
any
thing
of
this
,
would
be
but
to
offend
it
,
and
to
commit
a
sacriledge
upon
your
most
precious
time
:
So
I
le
forbear
,
and
onely
prosecute
my
petitions
for
more
pardons
still
;
and
Princes
upon
their
first
inaugurations
,
seldome
deny
any
,
whose
crimes
carry
not
some
extraordinary
atrocity
with
them
;
much
lesse
can
I
doubt
of
indulgence
,
from
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
who
are
a
Person
so
composed
of
Grace
,
and
Clemency
it self
.
Your
pardon
therefore
gracious
Sir
again
,
that
I
presume
to
address
these
poor
unpolisht
papers
,
to
so
great
a
Patronage
as
yours
.
Indeed
,
mighty
Sir
,
if
that
the
transcendency
of
the
Subject
,
treated
on
in
these
Discourses
,
had
not
given
me
great
encouragement
,
I
should
never
have
dared
to
offer
this
Piece
to
your
view
,
much
lesse
to
your
protection
:
but
it
being
conscious
to
it self
,
that
it
contains
nothing
,
but
meer
Commentaries
upon
your
glorious
Fathers
Words
and
Actions
,
it
humbly
conceives
,
that
your
Highnesse
has
so
great
a
propriety
in
it
,
and
that
it
has
so
near
a
Relation
to
your
Highnesse
,
that
it
boldly
begins
to
challenge
,
your
most
Serene
Candour
,
and
particular
Protection
:
and
would
argue
me
of
an
extreme
insolence
,
to
go
about
to
seek
for
its
Birth
,
under
any
other
favour
.
For
may
it
please
your
Highnesse
to
take
it
as
a
little
History
,
of
your
most
Renowned
Father
;
who
should
it
come
to
for
Licence
,
Approbation
,
Countenance
,
and
Priviledge
,
but
your
Sacred
self
,
who
are
the
Compendium
of
his
incomparable
Life
,
and
the
living
Epitome
of
all
his
Perfections
,
and
are
growing
up
very
speedily
,
to
be
as
great
a
Volume
.
May
it
please
your
Highnesse
,
to
take
it
as
a
piece
of
Architecture
,
or
Mosaick
Work
(
as
it
is
)
erected
upon
the
Memory
of
your
deceased
Father
;
whom
should
it
have
recourse
to
,
for
its
Pillar
,
and
support
,
but
onely
your
Highnesse
,
who
are
the
moving
Model
of
all
his
Great
Actions
?
And
may
your
Highnesse
please
to
take
it
,
as
a
Table
or
Picture
,
of
your
Princely
Father
;
Who
is
more
concerned
in
it
,
than
your
Gracious
self
,
that
are
as
much
the
lively
Image
of
his
Vertues
,
as
of
the
Majesty
of
his
Person
.
Thus
then
,
for
the
scope
and
businesse
of
the
Book
,
I
dare
affirm
it
to
be
without
exception
,
great
and
good
,
and
so
I
dare
present
it
boldly
to
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
and
avouch
it
equal
to
any
Kings
Cabinet
whatsoever
in
the
World
;
though
truly
for
the
rusticity
of
its
dresse
,
which
is
meerly
my
fault
,
it
may
not
be
,
for
ought
I
know
,
admitted
by
the
over-curious
.
The
plain
truth
is
,
and
I
am
not
ashamed
to
acknowledge
it
to
your
Highnesse
,
that
I
have
been
so
intent
upon
the
maine
matter
,
that
it
may
be
I
have
neglected
something
of
the
form
,
or
to
give
it
the
due
dresse
and
ornament
of
Language
;
and
to
word
it
truly
as
it
should
have
been
,
would
have
required
no
lesse
than
the
pen
of
a
Seraphim
:
but
my
comfort
is
,
that
your
Highnesse
,
like
your
great
Father
,
in
that
as
well
as
all
his
other
Excellencies
,
has
been
ever
a
most
declared
enemy
to
that
kind
of
pitiful
ostentation
of
words
,
as
well
as
cloathes
,
and
knows
how
to
make
a
value
of
a
pure
Oriental
Pearle
,
though
covered
with
a
course
shell
,
and
how
to
accept
of
a
precious
sweet
Perfume
,
though
shut
up
within
an
abject
Box.
So
I
hope
it
shall
not
offend
your
Highnesse
,
and
that
will
suffice
me
,
not
to
have
imitated
those
that
preserve
Oranges
and
Limons
,
who
neglecting
the
rich
juice
,
and
inside
of
the
fruit
,
do
candy
and
preserve
the
meer
Rine
,
and
outside
onely
.
But
yet
I
have
another
pardon
to
beg
of
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
which
must
be
granted
,
after
all
this
,
or
I
am
eternally
ruined
,
and
that
is
,
for
dareing
to
undertake
,
or
touch
with
my
rude
hands
,
this
most
curious
piece
of
Mosaick
Work
,
which
should
serve
for
a
Monument
upon
your
immortal
Fathers
Memory
,
well
knowing
,
that
no
tongue
which
has
not
expressions
equal
to
his
Expeditions
,
or
a
pen
that
cannot
parallel
his
Sword
,
is
capable
to
deliver
any
just
Character
of
him
.
What
Language
,
Pen
,
or
Pensil
,
can
possibly
delineate
,
that
most
invincible
Spirit
of
his
,
that
encountered
Men
and
Devils
,
and
associating
the
Kingdom
of
his
Vertues
,
to
the
force
of
his
Armes
,
broke
through
all
obstacles
,
to
Crown
his
inspired
purposes
?
how
he
in
the
hurry
of
War
,
and
glory
of
Peace
,
bearing
thunder
and
olive
branches
,
throughout
these
Kingdomes
,
now
blest
under
your
most
Gracious
Protection
,
has
happily
rendered
himself
amiable
at
one
time
,
and
terrible
at
another
,
and
yet
ever
prosperous
,
and
aweful
in
both
?
No
,
it
is
impossible
for
any
Mortal
to
do
it
,
His
own
Acts
onely
can
speak
for
him
,
and
for
ever
will
do
more
,
than
all
the
Panegyricks
in
the
World
can
:
For
the
Rose
we
know
,
is
sufficiently
beautified
with
its
leaves
,
and
the
Sun
with
its
Rayes
,
and
no
more
can
our
praises
arrive
at
his
perfections
,
than
humane
Arts
can
reach
those
of
Nature
.
But
this
piece
of
infinite
insolence
,
I
stand
now
guilty
of
before
your
Highnesse
,
and
unlesse
your
Gracious
Serenity
be
pleased
to
pardon
me
,
I
must
perish
,
even
in
the
Haven
of
Hope
.
And
Mighty
Sir
,
to
make
some
satisfaction
,
for
my
present
audacious
attempt
,
I
will
hereafter
strive
,
better
to
resemble
those
devout
adorers
of
the
Sun
,
who
not
being
able
to
affixe
Crowns
,
and
Garlands
,
upon
the
head
of
his
Statue
,
burnt
Flowers
alwayes
in
sacrifice
to
it
,
to
make
their
odour
mount
to
the
Heavens
:
So
,
since
I
can
never
be
able
to
Crown
his
deceased
Highnesse
his
Merits
,
with
my
weake
humane
praises
,
I
will
humbly
offer
up
to
Heaven
my
prayers
and
vows
,
for
your
eternall
prosperities
,
who
preserve
still
,
the
Idaea
of
his
late
Highnesse
his
Authority
,
and
Majesty
,
as
well
as
that
of
his
Sacred
Person
,
here
amongst
us
;
and
that
I
le
do
constantly
,
with
all
submission
,
due
to
your
most
Serene
Highnesse
his
most
Heroick
,
Sublime
,
and
true
Princely
Qualities
,
as
becomes
,
Most
Gracious
Sir
,
Your
Highnesse
his
most
devoted
,
obedient
,
faithful
,
and
loyal
subject
,
H.
Dawbeny
.
THE
EPISTLE
To
the
several
sorts
of
READERS
.
REaders
,
if
you
are
Persons
any
way
pre-ingaged
,
or
tyed
to
any
present
Factions
,
or
Parties
of
the
Times
,
I
am
bold
to
tell
you
beforehand
,
that
I
will
neither
ask
nor
expect
a
kindnesse
from
you
,
no
not
so
much
as
ordinary
candour
:
and
I
pray
you
pardon
me
,
that
I
salute
you
so
plurally
;
for
I
presume
,
there
will
be
whole
Junto
's
,
and
Cabales
of
you
,
soon
bundled
together
,
to
sit
in
Judgement
upon
,
censure
,
and
condemne
,
this
little
Infant
,
upon
its
first
peeping
into
the
World
;
And
this
I
cannot
but
conclude
,
from
the
over-forwardnesse
of
some
of
you
,
to
asperse
its
innocency
,
when
lying
in
its
first
bed
,
and
loose
sheets
in
the
Print-house
;
nay
,
while
some
part
of
it
,
remained
yet
in
the
womb
of
the
Presse
,
so
could
not
be
swadled
up
into
a
Volume
.
Howsoever
,
I
shall
now
advise
you
,
(
for
your
own
good
,
more
than
mine
)
for
take
it
how
you
please
,
I
am
indifferent
)
to
suspend
at
least
,
so
much
of
your
partiality
,
as
may
otherwise
offer
violence
to
your
reason
,
till
you
have
heard
all
the
Evidence
read
,
which
this
little
Booke
will
exhibite
in
its
own
behalf
,
and
that
you
have
found
the
Warpe
,
and
the
Woof
,
then
censure
on
,
and
passe
your
judgements
how
you
please
.
In
the
mean
time
give
me
leave
,
as
most
concerned
,
to
advocate
in
my
own
Childs
behalf
;
to
obviate
some
,
of
your
objections
,
that
you
have
bolted
out
already
.
And
the
first
is
from
you
,
O
you
envenom'd
Party
,
that
shoote
out
your
Arrows
,
even
bitter
words
,
against
the
precious
Memory
of
his
late
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
and
striveing
to
trample
on
his
ashes
,
are
pleased
to
think
too
much
of
Panegyrick
said
of
him
,
in
the
very
Title-page
.
I
shall
not
now
stain
paper
,
with
any
of
your
impure
language
:
but
refer
you
for
your
further
confutation
,
to
the
processe
of
our
Parallels
,
where
you
will
finde
him
to
be
a
Person
as
much
above
your
malice
,
as
he
has
ever
esteemed
you
,
below
his
anger
.
It
shall
suffice
me
to
consider
,
that
if
men
will
be
now
adayes
so
curious
as
to
vaunt
to
see
spots
in
the
Moon
,
where
will
they
not
finde
a
fault
?
and
if
base
envy
will
go
about
to
shave
an
egg
,
what
will
it
not
do
in
a
Meadow
?
It
is
notorious
,
that
the
Almighty
handy-work
,
the
Creation
it self
,
could
not
scape
the
carping
of
a
ridiculous
Momus
,
who
would
needs
undertake
to
correct
the
Divine
Artifice
,
and
perswade
the
World
,
that
the
All-wise
Creator
,
was
very
much
overseen
,
in
planting
the
hornes
of
the
savage
Bull
,
and
other
Beasts
so
armed
,
over
their
eyes
,
and
that
it
had
been
much
more
accommodation
for
those
Creatures
,
if
their
eyes
had
been
set
over
their
hornes
.
I
should
desire
likewise
,
that
these
our
venemous
Momus's
,
would
set
their
hornes
for
spectacles
under
their
eyes
,
and
try
whether
they
can
better
spy
out
their
exceptions
against
our
Mosaick
Parallels
.
The
next
sort
of
enemies
that
I
hear
this
little
Infant
has
encountered
,
are
indeed
something
more
modest
,
but
as
I
take
it
,
they
are
,
too
,
a
little
more
nice
than
wise
,
(
as
our
Proverb
hath
it
)
the
very
method
forsooth
,
of
this
Discourse
,
giving
great
scandal
to
their
tender
consciences
,
and
they
are
so
deeply
offended
at
it
,
that
they
cry
out
upon
it
,
phy
,
a
Parallel
,
or
Comparison
with
Moses
?
O
abominable
prophanation
!
Truly
,
I
should
be
very
unwilling
to
scandalize
any
weake
Brother
,
and
more
troubled
,
not
to
be
able
to
satisfie
his
scruple
,
if
he
please
to
be
satisfied
:
and
certainly
,
this
Piece
is
not
the
first
that
has
gone
that
way
,
we
have
very
sufficient
presidents
,
and
authority
too
,
to
warrant
us
.
Have
we
not
seen
a
compleate
Parallel
,
between
Elias
and
Dr.
Luther
,
even
to
the
Chariots
of
Israel
,
and
the
Horsemen
thereof
?
and
another
betwixt
his
Successor
Elisha
,
and
Mr.
Calvin
,
to
the
double
portion
of
his
spirit
,
and
many
of
our
Modern
Doctors
,
put
in
scale
with
some
of
the
Apostles
themselves
?
Nor
has
this
way
of
comparison
,
been
taken
up
onely
by
Divines
,
in
honour
of
their
own
Function
;
but
many
Parallels
we
finde
in
Print
,
between
some
of
our
late
Kings
,
how
well
deserving
,
I
say
not
;
and
some
of
those
holy
Princes
,
and
Prophets
of
Gods
own
people
,
as
David
,
Solomon
,
Josiah
,
Hezekiah
,
&c.
and
one
very
expresse
Parallel
,
between
Queen
Elizabeth
of
famous
Memory
,
and
that
great
Princesse
and
Prophetesse
Deborah
.
Then
why
should
not
our
late
incomparable
Prince
,
and
Protector
stand
as
well
placed
in
line
Parallel
,
with
that
glorious
Patriarch
Moses
?
But
now
I
hear
of
a
third
expedition
prepared
against
us
,
another
body
of
enemies
,
much
more
numerous
,
but
lesse
dangerous
far
,
than
the
former
,
and
yet
they
march
furiously
,
and
come
to
storme
our
little
Work
for
a
meer
counterscarp
of
flattery
;
but
they
will
finde
it
by
their
approaches
,
to
be
a
solid
Brest-work
of
truth
,
able
to
endure
all
their
battery
,
and
that
too
so
well
lined
with
vertues
truely
flankerd
,
and
well
furnished
with
regular
redoubts
,
and
redoubted
truths
,
that
they
must
be
beaten
of
with
losse
of
honour
,
if
not
of
themselves
.
There
is
no
man
sure
lives
,
that
dare
deny
the
ground-work
of
all
our
Mosaical
Ascents
,
and
Staires
to
Princely
perfections
,
to
be
the
indubitable
dictate
of
the
Spirit
of
God
himself
:
and
that
all
the
foundations
of
our
present
Parallels
,
are
most
unquestionable
truths
,
we
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
,
Exod.
2.1
.
extracted
from
an
extraordinary
Race
,
the
most
sacred
Tribe
,
and
Principal
Family
in
Israel
,
Exod.
●
the
House
of
Levi.
A
most
Noble
House
indeed
,
of
which
the
Lord
himself
had
so
high
and
honourable
an
esteem
,
Deut.
18.2
Exod.
28.
that
he
made
it
as
it
were
,
his
own
Impropriation
and
Inheritance
;
entailing
upon
it
,
all
his
own
Menial
Attendancies
.
Levit.
8.
O
most
unvalueable
Priviledges
,
and
Prerogatives
of
a
Family
!
Num.
4.
Num.
8.
not
onely
to
be
made
the
sole
Houshold
servants
of
the
Living
God
;
but
to
be
set
apart
,
Levit.
29.
to
eat
at
his
own
Table
,
feed
on
his
proper
Sacrifices
,
and
to
have
,
as
it
were
,
Num.
18.
Num.
3.
Num.
1.50
,
51.
the
Monopoly
of
Altars
,
and
all
holy
things
.
O
thrice
happy
honours
of
a
House
!
not
onely
to
be
(
as
it
were
)
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
own
Life-guard
,
Deut.
10.8
and
have
the
sole
charge
of
the
sacred
Arke
of
the
Covenant
committed
to
them
;
Num.
3.
Num.
18.
but
also
to
be
adopted
into
the
very
Cabinet-counsells
of
Heaven
,
by
the
judgement
of
Vrim
and
Thummim
,
Exod.
28.30
.
and
to
be
alone
permitted
to
have
a
free
and
frequent
ingresse
,
into
the
Sanctum
Sanctorum
it self
.
This
was
in
short
,
the
sacred
Family
,
selected
by
the
Almighty
Jehovah
himself
,
to
be
,
as
it
were
,
his
Princes
,
Peers
,
and
onely
Familiars
,
here
below
,
the
onely
Grandees
and
Favourits
of
his
most
Magnificent
Court
upon
Earth
,
which
was
to
be
establisht
in
his
most
holy
,
glorious
,
and
costly
Temple
at
Jerusalem
:
as
is
to
be
seen
more
at
large
in
the
whole
course
of
sacred
Scripture
;
to
which
holy
leaves
,
I
humbly
refer
every
ingenuous
Reader
,
for
a
further
satisfaction
in
all
these
Particulars
.
The
Parallel
.
Indeed
,
when
we
shall
have
duely
considered
,
the
great
care
,
and
holy
caution
,
the
sacred
Scripture
it self
ha's
taken
throughout
,
in
the
recommendation
of
the
Nobility
of
divers
persons
,
we
may
very
well
conclude
with
the
Heathen
Orator
,
(
what
may
be
too
as
good
Divinity
as
Philosophy
)
Deorum
Immortalium
munus
,
Plin.
in
Paneg.
Constantin
.
&
primum
videri
&
maximum
,
in
lucem
statim
foelicem
venire
.
Nobility
of
birth
,
is
the
first
and
greatest
gift
of
God
.
I
say
,
the
first
and
greatest
temporal
dispensation
of
Heaven
,
is
,
to
be
born
Noble
,
and
so
soon
to
be
within
the
lists
of
felicity
,
as
of
nature
;
why
else
should
we
find
such
an
exact
account
of
the
Nobility
of
this
our
great
Prototype
Moses
,
of
the
three
valiant
Children
,
held
in
the
Captivity
of
Babylon
,
and
that
of
the
most
valiant
and
renowned
Eleazar
,
and
divers
other
persons
since
the
universal
Deluge
?
which
particulars
are
now
too
long
to
be
insisted
on
.
Nay
,
that
Nobility
of
blood
was
in
the
like
esteem
both
with
God
and
man
too
;
before
the
Flood
,
in
the
very
first
Age
and
Infancy
of
the
World
,
will
be
quickly
made
appear
,
by
the
delineation
of
the
Genealogy
of
Noe
,
Genes.
5.
which
the
holy
Spirit
is
pleased
to
deliver
to
us
,
as
if
it
intended
,
as
it
were
,
to
act
the
part
of
a
Herald
,
in
giving
to
us
the
large
Series
of
all
his
Generations
:
it
seeming
not
onely
to
make
way
through
all
the
Patriarchs
,
from
whom
he
was
descended
;
but
to
give
a
punctual
rehearsal
to
us
of
all
their
Titles
,
and
Signiories
,
of
all
their
singular
Acts
and
Atchievements
,
and
then
concludes
in
the
next
Chapter
,
Hae
sunt
generationes
Noe
,
Genes.
6.
vir
justus
erat
atque
perfectus
:
This
is
the
Genealogy
of
Noe
,
he
was
a
just
man
and
a
perfect
.
If
then
Nobility
of
birth
be
a
blessing
so
considerable
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
,
and
inferr'd
by
his
holy
Spirit
,
to
be
of
no
little
avail
to
us
in
the
way
of
vertue
,
and
an
apparent
step
to
Piety
and
Sanctity
it self
;
It
will
not
be
,
I
hope
,
thought
incongruous
,
to
bring
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
to
encounter
the
first
,
upon
this
his
first
Ascent
;
and
,
as
in
all
the
rest
,
we
shall
find
them
sweetly
kissing
and
embracing
each
the
other
.
And
yet
I
cannot
say
,
his
late
Highnesse
was
extracted
from
so
Priestly
a
Family
,
but
altogether
as
Princely
,
being
lineally
descended
from
the
loynes
of
our
most
Antient
Brittish
Princes
,
and
ty'd
in
near
alliances
to
the
blood
of
our
later
Kings
,
as
by
that
thrice
Noble
Family
of
the
Barringtons
,
and
divers
others
;
which
to
make
a
Petigree
of
,
would
take
up
more
paper
,
than
we
intend
for
our
Volume
,
and
make
me
appear
more
a
Herald
,
than
an
Historian
.
Nay
,
indeed
,
should
I
but
go
about
to
prove
,
his
Highnesse
most
illustrious
House
Noble
,
I
should
commit
a
sacriledge
in
the
Temple
of
Honour
,
and
onely
violate
his
most
glorious
Family
,
with
a
more
solemn
infamy
.
His
Highnesse
is
unquestionably
known
to
have
descended
from
such
a
stem
of
Princely
Antecessors
,
that
whole
Ages
,
which
wast
Rocks
,
and
wear
out
Elements
,
have
never
altered
to
lessen
,
but
rather
advance
the
honour
of
his
great
House
.
He
was
derived
from
such
a
Family
,
that
we
may
better
say
of
it
,
than
what
was
of
the
other
,
ex
qua
nescit
aliquid
Mediocre
nasci
,
from
whence
nothing
ordinary
can
proceed
;
as
is
likewise
made
notoriously
evident
,
in
those
other
mosteminent
persons
of
Honour
,
now
living
,
who
are
blest
with
a
share
of
his
incomparable
blood
:
who
have
spread
their
glory
abroad
,
so
well
as
at
home
,
and
built
themselves
such
Trophies
,
in
the
hearts
of
their
very
enemies
,
that
eternity
it self
must
celebrate
;
so
no
time
can
ever
be
able
to
demolish
,
or
reduce
into
oblivion
.
And
that
I
may
not
be
thought
to
flatter
so
great
a
truth
,
I
will
be
bold
to
hasten
,
and
abruptly
conclude
this
first
point
of
our
Mosaical
Parallel
;
with
saying
onely
,
that
this
sublime
Person
,
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
our
second
,
as
the
first
great
Moses
,
came
into
the
World
,
like
a
Princely
Pearl
,
and
made
it
appear
,
by
the
quality
of
his
Orient
,
that
if
Nature
pleased
to
equal
his
birth
,
to
the
best
of
Noble-men
upon
Earth
,
he
would
equal
his
vertues
to
his
extraction
;
as
we
shall
see
more
plainly
,
when
we
mount
a
little
higher
,
upon
our
Mosaical
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
The
second
Ascent
.
MOses
was
from
his
Cradle
blest
with
a
very
beautiful
body
,
Exod.
2.2
.
for
which
he
was
most
remarkable
,
in
his
infancy
,
so
the
sacred
text
tells
us
,
that
he
was
a
fair
and
goodly
child
.
Now
,
that
bodily
beauty
is
an
indubitable
blessing
,
and
a
Ray
of
the
Divinity
it self
;
none
sure
but
a
monstrous
Thersites
,
or
a
Mopsus
will
dispute
,
and
none
,
but
an
errant
Apostate
from
Christianity
,
a
meer
perfidious
and
profane
Manichee
,
dare
deny
.
Does
not
the
Lord
himself
proclaim
,
as
he
is
the
God
of
Nature
,
that
beauty
and
graceful
comlinesse
of
body
is
entirely
his
gift
?
Nay
,
ha's
he
not
often
imployed
this
his
own
glorious
dispensation
,
to
be
an
instrument
of
his
mighty
wonders
,
a
lightning
flash
of
his
power
,
and
as
a
resplendent
Torch
of
his
greatest
Victories
?
which
his
All-Wise
Providence
would
never
have
done
,
did
he
not
only
approve
the
nature
of
,
but
intend
to
give
the
greatest
honour
to
,
Ibid.
that
his
own
dispensation
.
Thus
was
the
Lord
pleased
,
to
make
the
beauty
of
our
little
Moses
the
cause
of
his
miraculous
preservation
,
by
affecting
the
heart
of
Pharaoh's
daughter
.
And
therefore
we
find
it
to
be
expresly
said
of
Judith
likewise
;
Dominus
hanc
in
illam
pulchritudinem
ampliavit
,
Judg.
10.4
ut
incomparabili
decore
omnium
oculis
appareret
,
The
Lord
so
amplified
her
beauty
,
that
she
should
appear
incomparable
lovely
,
and
allure
the
eyes
of
all
that
should
behold
her
:
So
God
,
purposing
to
stay
the
violent
streams
of
Holofernes
his
arms
,
though
he
could
with
his
omnipotent
hand
,
have
buried
that
vast
Army
,
in
the
bowels
of
the
earth
,
as
he
did
Corah
and
his
Complices
,
or
have
call'd
out
,
from
the
center
it self
,
millions
of
arm'd
men
in
Cadmean
equipage
(
equal
to
the
Poets
fancy
)
to
have
destroyed
them
,
Chron
2.2
or
might
have
(
by
an
expedition
of
Angels
)
dispatcht
the
businesse
again
,
as
he
once
did
upon
the
host
of
Senacherib
,
under
the
command
of
insolent
Rabsheketh
,
their
proud
Captain
General
:
Yet
he
was
pleased
,
without
stretching
of
his
hand
forth
,
to
any
other
miracle
,
to
raise
the
beauty
onely
of
a
gracious
widow
,
to
triumph
over
all
those
dreadful
Legions
,
and
to
wage
war
with
the
most
puissant
Monarch
of
the
world
.
Nay
,
it
is
expresly
said
,
that
God
himself
added
a
certain
air
,
mine
,
or
garb
of
attractive
parts
in
Judith
,
to
surprize
the
Cittadel
,
the
heart
,
of
that
barbarous
Commander
;
that
he
,
being
made
more
drunk
with
love
,
then
with
wine
,
might
be
more
easily
taken
in
the
snare
of
her
eyes
,
and
sacrifice
his
unhallowed
head
,
to
her
fair
hands
.
Nay
,
Esther
8.
the
Lord
fought
with
the
self-same
weapon
again
,
and
raised
onely
the
same
arms
against
,
the
proud
and
imperious
Haman
,
to
confound
him
with
that
lovely
Engin
onely
.
For
when
he
was
upon
the
point
to
command
,
the
throats
of
infinite
numbers
to
be
cut
,
of
Gods
own
people
,
as
sheep
mark't
out
for
the
slaughter
:
The
omnipotent
then
,
onely
oppos'd
a
poor
frail
female
beauty
against
him
,
which
tumbled
him
from
the
top
of
Fortunes
wheel
,
and
made
him
to
swing
under
an
elevated
gibbet
;
God
so
turning
in
an
instant
,
by
the
power
of
an
excellent
beauty
onely
,
the
heart
of
a
savage
,
Prince
,
from
a
Lion
to
a
Lamb
;
and
making
Assuerus
,
clean
contrary
to
his
great
Favorites
design
,
to
preserve
the
lives
,
and
confirm
the
safety
and
liberty
of
his
people
:
Nor
is
this
high
verity
remarkable
,
onely
in
feminine
,
but
also
masculine
beauty
,
1
Sam.
10.23
,
24.
which
,
besides
the
instance
of
our
Moses
,
God
himself
seems
to
confirm
in
his
election
of
Saul
,
to
the
government
of
his
own
people
,
of
whom
the
greatest
commendation
we
find
written
,
is
,
that
he
was
a
very
proper
man
,
and
when
he
stood
amongst
the
people
,
he
was
higher
then
any
other
,
from
the
shoulders
upwards
,
and
that
there
was
none
like
him
,
for
beauty
of
person
,
amongst
all
the
people
.
I
could
be
infinite
in
particulars
,
to
dilucidate
this
divine
dispensation
,
and
tell
you
,
how
the
All-wise
God
thought
fit
to
confer
that
extraordinary
favour
,
on
all
his
principal
servants
,
as
David
,
Solomon
,
with
all
the
rest
of
the
Princes
and
Prophets
of
his
people
,
not
any
one
of
which
do
we
finde
mark't
out
with
any
deformity
,
a
thing
in
it self
so
unpleasing
to
God
,
that
he
has
,
by
positive
Law
,
banisht
all
such
persons
,
not
only
from
serving
at
his
holy
,
Altars
,
Deut.
23.
but
from
a
capacity
to
bear
any
civil
charge
:
But
I
must
hasten
to
our
beloved
Parallel
,
so
shall
conclude
this
Ascent
with
some
remarks
upon
the
person
of
our
blessed
Saviour
himself
,
whom
all
antiquity
ha's
delivered
to
us
,
to
have
had
a
most
excellent
humane
beauty
;
and
that
doctrine
of
theirs
,
is
not
only
grounded
upon
those
many
mystical
,
and
indeed
incomparable
,
beauties
attributed
to
him
in
the
Canticles
,
but
more
positively
and
clearly
collected
,
out
of
that
most
remarkable
passage
of
the
Psalmist
,
Speciosus
forma
prae
filiis
hominum
,
Psal.
45.
Thou
art
fairer
then
the
children
of
men
,
from
whence
,
I
say
,
all
the
ancient
Doctors
of
the
Church
,
do
unanimously
conclude
and
assure
us
,
that
our
blessed
Lord
and
Saviour
,
expresly
selected
for
himself
,
a
most
excellent
beauty
of
body
,
and
an
extraordinary
supream
grace
of
speech
.
Nay
,
Niceph.
l.
1.
Nicephorus
goes
about
to
describe
to
us
certain
lineaments
of
his
body
,
his
exact
stature
,
colour
,
and
perfect
proportion
of
parts
,
which
he
pretends
to
draw
out
of
all
antiquity
,
and
delivers
them
in
all
to
be
most
gracious
,
lovely
,
and
specious
:
from
whence
we
may
draw
this
most
excellent
use
,
to
teach
us
[
that
since
the
Lord
was
pleased
voluntarily
to
dispoil
himself
of
all
Honours
,
Riches
,
and
worldly
greatnesse
,
to
give
us
an
example
of
his
high
humility
:
yet
would
,
notwithstanding
,
consecrate
this
thing
called
Beauty
,
in
his
own
most
illustrious
person
,
and
that
of
his
blessed
Mother
]
what
value
we
ought
to
set
upon
so
heavenly
a
gift
,
and
how
careful
we
should
be
,
never
to
prophane
it
;
So
I
passe
to
the
Parallel
.
The
Parallel
.
We
have
seen
in
our
Ascent
the
beauty
of
our
Moses
,
and
divers
other
persons
,
besides
that
of
our
Saviours
,
celebrated
in
holy
Scripture
;
and
truly
,
I
must
be
bold
to
adde
;
not
without
a
great
deal
of
reason
;
for
,
the
more
admirable
sure
the
piece
of
workmanship
is
,
when
it
duely
examines
and
contemplates
it self
,
ought
more
to
incite
a
man
,
and
raise
him
to
a
higher
love
,
and
greater
praise
of
the
workman
,
which
is
(
if
the
word
may
be
pardoned
)
God
himself
,
and
he
that
has
the
fairest
preparation
,
in
his
bodily
Fabrick
or
Structure
;
reason
justly
requires
of
him
,
that
he
should
order
his
manners
proportionably
,
and
,
according
to
the
perfection
of
his
soul
,
endeavour
to
make
her
appear
more
fair
,
being
lodged
in
so
compleat
and
well-proportion'd
a
body
:
And
they
that
shall
abuse
this
fair
and
inestimable
gift
of
Heaven
,
to
any
impious
,
fond
,
carnal
prophanation
,
by
devoting
that
,
and
themselves
to
any
sensual
,
sordid
,
bruitish
life
,
do
plainly
drag
the
gift
of
heaven
,
and
Divinity
it self
in
the
dust
.
Nay
,
they
are
guilty
of
a
more
barbarous
ingratitude
,
than
they
that
steal
Silver
and
Gold
from
the
Tabernacle
,
to
make
Altars
to
Baal
or
Ashteroth
;
or
,
that
light
their
Lamps
at
the
Altar-fire
of
the
Omnipotent
,
to
make
pillage
afterwards
of
his
Temple
;
or
,
that
take
bread
from
the
Master
of
the
house
with
one
hand
,
and
stabb
him
with
the
other
.
Well
then
,
it
may
be
granted
,
that
a
beautiful
and
well
proportioned
body
,
is
an
indubitable
gift
of
God
,
and
that
the
Lord
confers
it
ordinarily
,
upon
his
dearest
Saints
and
Servants
.
And
I
hope
it
will
no
more
be
doubted
,
whether
the
same
All-wise
Providence
,
has
dealt
lesse
graciously
,
in
favour
of
his
deceased
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
than
he
has
done
with
the
former
,
and
other
his
dear
favourits
upon
Earth
.
Indeed
but
barely
to
question
it
,
were
not
onely
to
argue
a
simple
or
malitious
blindnesse
in
the
Asker
,
but
would
convince
him
guilty
of
a
perilous
prophanation
,
in
the
neglect
of
so
much
divinity
instamped
upon
his
sacred
Person
;
nay
would
make
him
appear
,
impiously
to
traduce
the
Almighty
Providence
it self
,
to
have
been
lesse
careful
,
of
our
glorious
departed
Protectors
most
incomparable
soul
,
than
it
should
have
been
,
in
not
preparing
for
it
,
an
equal
body
to
lodge
in
,
who
,
with
his
body
,
and
his
soul
,
was
pre-ordained
,
to
serve
,
as
an
instrument
of
Divine
wonders
,
equally
with
his
Grand
Archetype
Moses
,
that
Prince
of
Patriarchs
.
Now
,
that
we
may
the
better
accomplish
our
happy
Parallel
,
in
this
beautiful
Ascent
,
it
would
not
be
amisse
to
exmine
,
what
kind
of
beauty
,
the
old
Rabbins
,
and
more
ancient
paintings
,
do
deliver
of
that
great
Moses
,
and
what
is
agreed
upon
all
sides
to
be
a
beauty
,
most
proportionable
to
a
Prince
.
As
to
the
former
,
we
find
by
many
ancient
Pens
,
as
well
as
Pensils
,
Moses
drawn
forth
to
us
,
with
a
goodly
,
large
,
and
illustrious
countenance
,
a
cheerful
,
fair
,
and
exporrected
forehead
,
(
such
a
one
,
as
Justinian
wisht
his
greatest
Judges
and
Generals
to
have
)
a
severe
,
but
graceful
Aspect
;
a
gallant
,
no
gigantick
stature
,
a
robustious
,
yet
well
proportioned
body
,
and
in
the
carriage
,
as
well
as
shape
,
of
every
limb
,
a
gracious
and
most
becoming
Majesty
.
Now
I
appeal
again
to
all
but
blind
men
,
or
malitious
,
whether
this
,
be
not
his
late
Highnesse
Picture
too
?
As
for
the
next
Quaere
,
what
is
the
most
amiable
beauty
in
a
Prince
,
I
shall
extract
it
,
out
of
a
most
excellent
Modern
Author
.
Fred.
de
Marsel
.
Forma
Principis
,
non
tam
venustas
est
muliebris
,
quàm
dignitas
,
quae
in
obtutu
gestibusque
consistit
,
&
,
quemadmodum
Tyrius
ait
,
occulto
&
potenti
introitu
,
hominum
animis
illabitur
,
&
Majestas
nuncupatur
,
consistit
autem
,
in
decorae
magnitudine
,
in
proportione
membrorum
,
in
line
amentis
aptis
,
in
colore
&
succo
,
&c.
Deformat
hanc
spectei
dignitatem
,
quicquid
nimis
exquisitum
est
,
de
Pixide
aut
speculo
comptum
,
&
infrae
virum
.
A
Princely
form
,
saith
he
,
carries
nothing
of
effeminate
beauty
in
it
,
but
a
prerogative
planted
in
the
forehead
,
which
consists
in
looks
and
gestures
,
and
(
as
Maxim
.
Tyrius
tells
us
)
with
a
close
and
powerful
entry
,
surprizeth
mens
souls
,
and
is
called
Majesty
.
And
this
again
consists
in
a
comely
largenesse
,
in
proportion
of
members
,
in
apt
lineaments
,
in
colour
,
moisture
,
&c.
This
dignity
of
Princely
beauty
,
is
deformed
,
by
any
over-curiosity
of
tricking
,
or
taking
any
thing
out
of
the
box
,
or
borrowing
too
much
from
Barber
or
Looking-glasse
,
all
that
,
is
below
a
man
.
Let
any
,
again
,
but
his
Highnesse's
most
malitious
enemies
,
say
,
whether
this
was
not
the
late
Protectors
very
Picture
,
and
Character
too
?
With
this
true
Masculine
beauty
it
was
,
that
the
great
Marius
,
though
proscribed
,
strook
him
to
the
heart
,
that
was
employed
to
have
stab'd
him
:
and
made
him
flee
from
him
,
that
with
so
much
trouble
and
difficulty
,
had
hunted
and
sought
out
for
him
.
With
this
glorious
perstringent
aspect
it
was
,
that
Octavianus
Caesar
,
assaulted
the
Asassinate
,
and
with
the
vigour
(
almost
celestial
)
of
his
Majestick
eyes
,
thunder-strook
the
villaine
,
that
was
otherwise
resolved
,
to
have
tumbled
him
down
from
some
Alpine
Precipice
.
This
is
the
true
,
virile
,
Princely
beauty
,
which
our
second
Moses
had
,
in
its
perfection
,
equal
to
the
former
Moses
,
or
either
of
those
great
Romans
,
by
which
he
has
frequently
,
confounded
Traitours
,
dasht
all
asassinates
,
dissolv'd
conspiracies
,
and
rendered
himself
the
wonder
of
the
Age.
Idem
.
Adeo
tanquam
cum
virtute
ipsa
,
certamen
haberet
,
haec
naturae
,
sive
dignitas
,
sive
majestas
,
etiam
ab
iis
,
honoris
,
obsequiique
tributa
exprimit
,
qui
adversus
virtutem
ipsam
conspirasse
videntur
,
sayes
the
same
Moderne
Author
;
So
as
if
this
same
Majesty
of
Princely
beauty
,
would
claime
priority
of
virtue
it self
,
exacting
the
tribute
of
honour
and
obedience
,
from
the
very
haters
themselves
of
,
and
conspirators
against
,
virtue
.
I
shall
close
up
all
this
,
with
what
a
brave
Orator
,
in
a
Panegyrick
,
said
to
Constantine
the
Great
,
our
Country-man
,
Plin.
in
Panegyr
.
Con.
and
one
of
the
goodliest
,
brave
Princes
that
ever
lived
upon
Earth
.
Te
cùm
milites
vident
,
admirantur
&
diligunt
,
sequuntur
oculis
,
animo
tenent
:
Deo
se
obsequi
putant
,
cujus
tàm
pulchra
forma
est
,
quàm
certa
divinitas
:
that
Nature
was
sent
,
on
purpose
,
by
God
,
as
a
gallant
Harbinger
,
to
compose
a
body
for
him
,
suitable
to
his
great
spirit
,
as
a
stately
house
for
a
beautiful
Lady
to
live
in
,
and
that
onely
this
exteriour
form
of
his
,
made
him
to
be
beloved
and
esteemed
of
all
the
World
,
as
a
certain
divinity
,
or
God
descended
from
Heaven
.
This
I
am
sure
,
(
though
malice
it
may
be
will
not
)
ought
every
one
of
this
Nation
with
as
much
justice
and
reason
,
say
,
of
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
and
Lord
Protector
,
who
,
as
the
former
,
was
,
from
his
Cradle
,
known
to
be
a
most
goodly
Child
,
and
during
those
his
first
,
sweet
,
and
tender
years
,
kept
still
a
very
gallant
Stature
,
tall
,
and
streight
,
as
a
Palm-tree
,
and
radiant
,
as
a
Star
;
and
,
as
the
excellent
Cassiodorus
well
expresseth
it
,
Cassiod
.
he
was
in
all
things
so
accomplisht
,
ut
ne
de
aspectu
Principis
possit
errari
.
Every
man
might
read
a
Prince
in
his
Countenance
.
Thus
beauty
of
body
,
we
see
,
is
not
a
little
desireable
in
a
Prince
;
but
if
the
house
answer
not
to
the
Frontispiece
,
what
may
we
else
say
,
but
that
Nature
hath
built
up
a
goodly
glorious
Mansion
,
to
lodge
therein
a
great
,
though
handsome
Beast
?
It
shall
be
,
therefore
,
our
endeavour
in
our
succeeding
higher
Ascents
,
to
make
the
internal
Moses
,
in
him
,
appear
equal
to
the
external
,
that
so
,
foul-faced
malice
it self
,
may
not
have
power
to
deny
,
the
Parallel
to
be
most
Compleat
.
The
third
Ascent
.
MOses
was
a
high
Favourite
of
Heaven
,
from
his
very
Infancy
,
being
then
miraculously
delivered
,
from
the
danger
of
the
waters
,
upon
which
he
was
exposed
(
as
Scripture
teacheth
us
)
in
an
Arke
of
Bulrushes
.
O
the
inscrutable
paths
of
the
Almighty
!
Exod.
2.3
.
O
the
Heights
!
O
the
Depths
of
Divine
Providence
!
Here
we
must
pause
a
little
,
and
consider
the
great
Salvations
of
the
Lord
,
before
we
can
proceed
to
accomplish
our
Parallel
.
Lo
,
here
we
find
a
little
Infant
,
our
great
Moses
,
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
Nilus
,
in
a
strange
bottome
,
a
boat
made
of
Bulrushes
,
Ibid.
or
floating
Cradle
of
Reeds
.
The
poor
tender
Mother
is
wholly
become
heartlesse
,
and
abandoneth
her
Childe
to
death
,
to
save
him
from
the
Savage
cruelty
of
men
,
set
on
work
,
to
destroy
innocents
,
by
the
direful
rigour
of
a
sterne
Tyrant
.
The
Aunt
,
not
altogether
so
hopelesse
,
but
a
little
bolder
,
dares
to
follow
the
forlorne
Infant
,
at
some
distance
,
so
as
to
keep
it
within
the
compasse
of
her
eye
,
endeavouring
to
see
(
if
she
could
)
what
would
become
of
the
Child
;
but
her
weaknesse
,
alas
,
could
do
nothing
to
warrant
him
from
the
imminent
danger
:
Almighty
God
,
in
the
mean
space
,
is
pleased
to
become
the
Pilot
of
this
little
Barke
;
he
beares
it
upon
the
waves
,
and
conducts
it
without
Sails
,
without
Rudder
,
without
Oares
,
or
any
other
help
,
of
stream
or
tyde
,
besides
that
,
of
his
own
eternal
,
and
immense
goodness
,
and
so
makes
it
arrive
,
beyond
all
humane
expectation
,
in
a
most
happy
Haven
,
and
there
to
discharge
its
lading
in
the
arms
of
a
Princesse
,
with
safety
and
comfort
:
A
Royal
Harbour
for
such
a
poor
weather-beaten
boat
,
after
so
perilous
a
passage
.
Now
the
little
Infant
is
drawn
forth
by
the
pity
of
the
Tyrants
Daughter
,
and
he
who
was
exposed
as
a
victim
to
Pharaohs
cruelty
,
must
be
thus
,
by
the
Tyrants
own
Daughter
,
(
his
own
flesh
and
blood
)
preserved
to
be
a
God
of
Pharaohs
,
and
to
live
to
bury
them
,
or
their
posterity
,
in
the
bottom
of
the
Red
Sea
,
Exod.
4.16
.
who
would
have
drown'd
him
in
his
infancy
,
in
the
River
Nilus
.
The
Parallel
.
I
take
it
for
a
verity
unquestionable
,
that
great
spirits
set
apart
and
pre-ordained
by
Divine
Providence
,
for
the
performance
of
future
wonders
,
have
most
particular
tutelar
Angels
assigned
to
them
for
their
protection
,
from
their
very
infancy
;
and
those
very
persons
,
from
their
Cradles
,
are
frequently
pointed
out
to
us
,
by
the
finger
of
God
himself
,
in
their
most
miraculous
preservations
.
So
we
see
in
Histories
,
how
the
little
King
Mithridates
,
(
that
was
to
prove
one
of
the
greatest
,
and
most
puissant
Monarchs
of
the
whole
Earth
)
being
involved
in
lightning
flashes
,
whilst
he
innocently
slept
in
his
infant-cradle
,
the
flames
consuming
his
very
swadling-cloaths
and
linnens
,
yet
he
remained
untoucht
in
his
body
.
In
like
manner
,
we
finde
another
Prodigy
of
Divine
providence
,
so
loudly
proclaimed
in
the
Greek
Anthology
,
how
a
father
and
an
innocent
son
,
were
equally
surprized
with
a
sad
shipwrack
,
which
took
away
the
life
of
the
father
,
and
gave
the
son
leave
to
arrive
in
a
safe
Harbour
,
having
no
other
vessel
or
plank
to
carry
him
ashore
,
but
the
very
corps
of
his
deceased
father
,
who
so
afforded
him
a
second
life
by
his
death
:
and
this
very
child
thus
wonderfully
delivered
,
grew
up
to
be
one
of
the
bravest
men
in
Greece
.
I
cannot
passe
by
one
other
effect
of
Divine
providence
,
no
lesse
stupendious
than
the
former
,
that
fell
out
not
long
since
in
the
Country
of
Apulia
,
where
happened
an
Earthquake
,
the
last
day
of
July
1627.
and
so
prodigious
a
one
,
that
(
as
I
have
heard
,
and
seen
written
)
in
the
City
of
St.
Severin
alone
,
more
than
ten
thousand
souls
,
were
taken
out
of
the
World
;
and
yet
in
the
horror
of
such
infinite
ruines
,
and
sepulchre
of
so
many
mortals
,
a
great
Bell
fell
so
fitly
over
a
little
child
,
that
it
not
onely
did
him
no
hurt
,
but
miraculously
inclosing
him
,
made
it self
a
Bulwark
and
defence
for
him
against
the
danger
of
all
the
other
ruines
:
and
this
Child
is
now
grown
up
(
as
I
am
informed
)
to
be
one
of
the
most
considerable
persons
in
all
Italy
.
Thus
little
Romulus
,
like
our
Infant
Moses
,
being
exposed
to
the
same
mercilesse
element
,
was
most
strangely
preserved
to
be
the
Founder
of
the
greatest
City
,
Monarchy
,
State
,
and
Empire
,
of
the
universal
World
.
I
should
be
infinite
if
I
should
run
through
the
whole
Series
of
sacred
Providence
,
in
the
particular
miraculous
preservations
,
that
have
been
shewed
upon
such
principal
persons
,
from
their
very
infancies
.
Yet
,
truly
,
if
there
were
no
other
instances
of
Divine
providence
left
us
,
but
onely
these
two
,
of
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
we
needed
not
alledge
more
arguments
to
prove
the
singular
care
,
the
Lord
takes
over
the
persons
of
good
Princes
.
We
have
seen
on
the
one
side
,
a
little
Infant
floating
on
the
waters
of
Nilus
,
in
a
cradle
built
of
Bulrushes
,
and
lying
just
like
a
worm
hidden
in
straw
,
and
whose
afflicted
friends
,
measured
his
Tombe
with
their
eyes
,
in
every
billow
of
that
faithlesse
element
;
yet
was
preserved
at
length
from
danger
,
by
the
very
blood
of
Pharaoh
,
to
turn
his
Diadem
into
dust
,
and
to
bury
him
and
his
whole
army
,
in
the
dreadful
gulph
of
the
Red
Sea
.
They
that
have
seen
his
late
Highnesse
,
our
sacred
second
Moses
,
in
the
like
former
imminent
perills
,
and
the
great
actions
he
has
since
,
most
gloriously
arrived
at
,
can
best
make
a
Parallel
of
the
Providence
.
No
Nurse
or
tender
Mother
whatsoever
,
could
be
half
so
carefull
to
drive
a
fly
from
the
face
of
her
little
Infant
,
whilst
it
slept
,
as
the
Providence
of
our
gracious
Lord
,
has
ever
shewed
its
self
affectionate
,
in
the
conservation
of
his
Highnesse
his
most
elevated
soul
:
and
,
though
I
cannot
say
he
was
exposed
upon
,
yet
,
as
I
have
heard
,
he
has
been
in
equal
dangers
,
by
,
the
water
,
as
his
first
Matter
Moses
was
:
and
a
great
deal
more
by
fire
;
tumbling
from
Precipices
,
falls
from
Coaches
,
Horses
,
and
Houses
too
,
and
what
not
?
insomuch
that
it
is
said
,
the
imminency
of
those
his
Infant
dangers
,
has
struck
the
very
hearts
,
and
chil'd
the
blood
,
in
the
veins
,
of
all
beholders
.
Thus
then
we
see
a
very
parallel
providence
,
over
these
two
great
persons
,
their
very
Cradles
kissing
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
conspiring
to
rock
each
other
:
and
truly
,
not
without
a
great
deal
of
reason
,
that
they
should
run
parallel
in
their
childhood-deliverances
,
(
as
we
have
seen
)
who
were
in
their
riper
years
,
to
serve
equally
,
as
inspired
instruments
of
Divine
wonders
:
and
all
the
World
,
methinkes
,
if
it
had
not
been
wilfully
blind
,
must
needs
have
discerned
,
in
his
Highnesse
his
Infancy
,
that
he
was
then
,
pointed
out
,
by
the
Almighty
Providence
,
to
be
the
same
person
,
which
he
has
since
,
so
gloriously
approved
himself
to
be
.
Those
who
had
the
honour
to
know
his
Highnesse
,
in
those
dayes
,
can
tell
us
,
how
he
was
born
,
a
Thaumaturgus
,
and
like
another
Hercules
Alexicacus
,
fill'd
his
cradle
with
no
lesse
wonder
,
than
he
has
done
the
field
since
,
and
afterwards
the
Throne
.
Those
his
early
wonders
,
yet
,
were
but
as
the
flashing
streakes
of
a
Cloud
,
to
be
so
instantly
turned
into
lightning
;
as
we
shall
see
more
at
large
,
in
his
diligent
,
and
faithful
imitation
of
his
great
Master
,
and
Prototype
Moses
,
in
all
his
higher
Ascents
.
The
fourth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
very
liberally
bred
,
and
had
all
the
advantages
of
a
Noble
and
Princely
education
;
being
brought
up
,
as
the
Text
tells
us
,
in
all
the
learning
of
the
Egyptians
.
Thus
the
All-wise
God
,
Acts
7
,
12.
having
selected
him
,
to
be
Conductor
,
and
Captain
General
of
a
hundred
and
six
thousand
men
at
arms
,
to
have
,
as
it
were
,
a
Regency
over
the
very
Elements
,
and
a
power
to
replenish
the
whole
World
with
Prodigies
;
provided
likewise
a
breeding
,
equal
to
so
high
a
Calling
,
to
frame
and
fit
him
,
for
so
supereminent
a
condition
,
and
to
accomplish
him
with
all
heroick
vertues
.
He
suffered
him
not
to
be
trained
up
,
as
other
Hebrew
children
were
,
in
fear
,
and
bondage
,
which
often
overwhelm
the
bravest
dispositions
;
but
brought
him
to
the
Court
of
Pharaoh
,
caused
him
to
be
nourished
in
all
the
exercises
of
Nobility
,
and
to
swallow
all
the
learning
of
the
Egyptians
,
who
then
had
the
reputation
of
the
wisest
,
and
the
knowingest
men
of
the
whole
World
.
How
simple
,
in
the
mean
time
,
absurd
,
and
and
contrary
to
expresse
Scripture
,
is
that
opinion
of
some
,
which
say
,
that
Moses
had
no
Egyptian
learning
at
all
,
nor
more
letters
,
than
what
he
received
from
Abraham
and
Enoch
,
or
,
what
he
heard
from
the
mouth
of
God
,
by
Oracles
daily
delivered
to
him
?
To
confute
this
folly
,
though
Scripture
it self
were
sufficient
,
I
shall
produce
further
evidence
.
Philo
de
vita
Moses
.
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
,
Pythagoras
.
Plato
.
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
testifies
;
Basil
.
and
Numenius
addes
,
that
Plato
himself
,
was
no
other
,
then
Moses
speaking
in
Greek
.
Nay
,
Clemens
Alexandrinus
,
and
Eusebius
,
both
say
,
Clem.
Alex.
Eusebius
.
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
,
Orpheus
.
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
,
Fran.
George
in
lib.
de
haerm
Mund.
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
,
Exod.
Num.
Levit.
Deut.
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
that
is
the
true
fear
of
the
Lord
,
which
is
acknowledged
by
Scripture
it self
,
to
be
the
beginning
of
all
Wisdom
:
and
,
though
we
dare
not
assert
,
for
it
is
unknown
,
what
personal
discourses
he
has
had
with
the
Almighty
,
yet
we
may
affirm
,
that
all
his
inspirations
were
Divine
;
and
his
conversation
was
ever
so
celestical
,
as
if
he
lay
,
in
the
very
bosome
of
the
Deity
.
Upon
the
whole
,
then
,
as
his
first
Master
Moses
,
was
bred
up
in
all
the
Learning
of
the
Egyptians
,
so
was
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
disposed
to
consecrate
his
hopeful
youth
,
to
the
study
of
the
Arts
,
in
one
of
our
Universities
;
wherein
he
came
to
so
much
perfection
,
that
he
was
pleased
do
descend
to
a
degree
,
by
which
he
made
that
,
more
than
himself
,
Laureat
,
for
so
he
was
without
it
.
Then
,
that
the
other
most
famous
Sister
,
should
not
be
dejected
,
he
was
pleased
to
crown
her
,
with
the
acceptance
of
her
highest
degree
of
Honour
,
and
to
lay
a
further
obligation
upon
her
,
and
the
whole
Common-wealth
of
Learning
,
he
has
been
pleased
since
to
own
himself
,
her
Patron
,
Chancellor
,
and
most
particular
Protector
;
and
since
his
Highnesse
his
greater
occasions
,
have
hindered
his
attendance
on
that
Charge
,
he
has
yet
added
to
her
obligations
,
by
bequeathing
that
care
,
to
his
most
excellent
son
,
and
Princely
Successor
,
his
now
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
whom
we
may
so
justly
entitle
to
be
,
Chara
Dei
soboles
,
magnum
Jovis
Incrementum
:
and
can
no
more
doubt
that
he
will
trace
the
steps
of
his
renowned
father
,
than
he
,
our
second
,
has
shewed
himself
to
be
a
perfect
imitator
of
his
great
Master
the
first
Moses
;
as
we
shall
still
find
his
Highnesse
,
mounting
after
him
,
in
the
succeeding
Ascents
.
The
fifth
Ascent
.
MOses
lived
a
long
retired
life
in
his
youth
,
contemning
the
pomp
and
greatnesse
,
of
Pharaohs
Court
,
and
all
the
World
besides
:
choosing
rather
to
passe
as
a
private
Shepherd
in
a
Desert
,
and
to
keep
his
father
in
Law
Jethro's
Flocks
,
Exod.
3.
than
to
be
made
a
Companion
of
Kings
.
Now
,
here
I
must
be
bold
to
assert
,
that
none
but
high
bred
,
as
well
as
high
born
,
souls
,
are
capable
of
understanding
,
much
lesse
of
undergoing
,
such
a
blessed
solitude
,
as
this
our
old
Master
Moses
did
.
In
this
he
shewed
himself
,
to
have
attained
to
the
very
highest
pitch
of
Philosophy
,
and
all
Learning
,
in
so
discreet
a
contempt
of
all
the
profits
,
pleasures
,
glories
,
and
vanities
,
of
the
World
.
Here
,
then
,
behold
,
and
admire
,
(
all
you
pittiful
plaistered
Puppits
of
the
World
)
this
grand
Master
of
Honour
,
and
Learning
,
Moses
;
who
,
though
enriched
,
with
all
the
fair
perfections
of
mind
,
and
body
,
requisite
to
the
accomplishment
of
a
Courtier
,
could
not
be
brought
,
by
all
the
powerful
allurements
of
Pharaohs
Daughter
;
no
,
nor
yet
by
the
solicitations
,
of
his
poor
brethren
,
then
in
bondage
,
who
stood
in
no
little
need
,
(
God
knows
)
of
such
a
helper
,
lying
then
,
under
a
most
Tyrannical
oppression
:
or
,
could
be
perswaded
,
to
accept
the
charge
,
of
any
publick
employments
;
but
,
chose
rather
for
a
great
while
,
to
retire
himself
,
and
to
live
a
free
,
and
harmlesse
Shephered
,
in
a
Desert
,
than
to
embroil
his
celestial
soul
,
in
any
mundane
matters
,
or
to
idolize
his
sinful
captivity
,
in
a
Court.
This
is
the
highest
point
of
Philosophy
in
the
World
,
for
a
man
,
especially
in
his
youth
,
to
know
how
to
make
himself
his
own
,
to
set
light
by
,
and
trample
under-foot
,
all
that
is
without
him
;
to
look
on
all
the
pomps
,
and
pleasures
,
of
this
World
,
as
the
old
Egyptians
did
,
upon
those
dangerous
theeves
,
whom
they
then
termed
Philistas
,
that
were
wont
to
tickle
,
fawn
upon
,
and
embrace
,
whom
they
had
a
purpose
to
strangle
.
And
truly
,
if
the
headach
,
should
seize
upon
us
,
before
drunkennesse
,
we
should
all
beware
of
too
much
drinking
;
but
sordid
sensuality
,
the
better
to
entrap
us
,
makes
her
apparent
pleasures
,
to
march
still
before
us
,
and
hides
perpetualy
,
her
too
rugged
,
and
repentant
track
from
us
.
If
we
can
arrive
at
so
happy
a
knowledge
,
as
to
see
into
those
miserable
consequences
beforehand
,
it
must
be
onely
,
by
the
pure
help
of
Philosophy
,
or
the
immediate
grace
of
God
.
And
this
was
that
,
which
our
Patriarch
Moses
did
see
,
and
accordingly
practice
;
not
making
,
neither
,
such
a
sad
,
and
valedictory
retreat
,
as
some
Princes
,
and
great
Persons
have
done
,
to
quit
,
and
forsake
the
World
,
when
either
they
have
been
weary
of
it
,
or
that
has
been
of
them
:
but
a
true
Mosaical
retreat
,
a
retreat
of
improvement
,
a
retreat
,
to
bring
us
on
afterwards
(
as
at
a
jump
)
with
greater
advantage
,
a
retreat
to
cultivate
,
and
enrich
a
soul
:
This
was
that
,
I
say
,
our
Moses
did
,
who
,
when
he
had
devoured
all
the
learning
of
the
Egyptians
,
he
would
retire
himself
a
while
,
to
disgest
it
in
the
Land
of
Midian
:
when
he
had
suckt
in
all
the
seeds
of
good
literature
from
the
Schools
,
he
withdrew
a
while
,
to
improve
the
growth
of
them
in
the
fields
;
so
avoiding
all
commixture
of
weeds
,
which
many
times
,
does
strangle
the
best
and
most
sublime
parts
in
men
:
And
,
to
conclude
all
this
,
our
great
Master
Moses
,
chose
to
avoid
all
those
pestilences
,
that
usually
attend
upon
Courts
,
and
most
Companies
,
to
go
to
fructify
in
the
Desert
.
The
Parallel
.
Now
,
as
we
have
seen
our
first
Moses
,
makeing
his
rich
retreat
,
and
preferring
it
before
all
the
delicacies
of
Pharaohs
Court
;
so
we
shall
see
our
glorious
second
,
making
hast
after
him
,
whose
inspired
wisdom
,
knew
full
well
,
even
in
those
his
youthful
years
,
how
to
set
a
just
value
,
upon
all
those
empty
nothings
,
pomps
,
pleasures
,
and
glories
,
of
the
World
,
and
look
upon
the
Court
then
,
no
otherwise
,
than
as
his
grand
Master
Moses
before
him
had
done
,
as
the
nest
of
envy
,
and
ambition
;
and
as
a
late
Writer
▪
most
excellently
extracts
out
of
divers
ancient
Authors
,
that
it
was
a
meer
den
of
darknesse
,
where
the
heavens
and
stars
,
are
scarcely
to
be
seen
,
but
through
a
little
crevis
:
As
a
Mill
,
alwayes
skreaking
with
perpetual
clatter
,
where
men
inchained
like
beasts
of
labour
,
are
condemned
to
turn
the
stones
:
As
a
prison
of
slaves
,
who
are
all
ty'd
in
the
golden
gyves
of
a
specious
servitude
;
yet
,
in
all
that
glitter
,
suffer
themselves
to
be
gnaw'd
upon
,
by
the
vermin
of
base
abominable
passions
.
As
a
list
,
where
all
the
Combatants
are
stark
mad
,
that
enter
,
their
arms
nothing
but
fury
,
their
prize
smoak
,
their
career
glasse
,
or
ice
,
and
utmost
bounds
,
but
precipices
.
As
the
house
of
Circe
,
where
reasonable
creatures
,
are
transformed
into
savage
beasts
,
where
Bulls
gore
,
Lions
roare
,
Dogs
bark
,
and
worry
one
another
;
Vipers
hiss
,
and
Basilisks
carry
death
in
their
looks
.
To
conclude
,
as
the
House
of
winds
,
a
perpetual
tempest
on
the
firm
land
,
shipwrack
without
water
,
where
vessels
are
split
,
even
in
the
haven
of
hope
:
In
fine
,
as
a
most
miserable
place
,
where
vice
reigns
by
nature
,
misery
by
necessity
;
and
if
any
vertue
be
found
there
,
it
must
be
by
miracle
:
Greg.
in
Job
.
20.
So
that
we
may
fitly
apply
to
those
old
Courtiers
,
that
passage
in
Job
,
so
much
insisted
on
,
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
,
Cyprian
ad
Donatum
.
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
.
Marc.
Aur.
Ant.
de
vit.
sua
,
l.
4.
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
,
Exod.
3.1
.
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
;
Ibid.
v.
2.
and
as
he
was
leading
his
flock
to
the
back
side
of
the
Desert
,
and
came
to
the
mountain
of
God
,
V.
3.
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
,
V.
4.
and
behold
the
bush
burnt
with
fire
,
V.
5.
and
was
not
consumed
,
And
Moses
said
,
I
will
now
turn
aside
,
and
see
this
great
fight
,
V.
6.
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
the
place
,
which
but
some
few
hours
before
,
he
despaired
of
,
and
resolved
to
rise
from
before
it
.
We
find
likewise
in
Roman
Story
,
that
Calphurnia
,
wife
to
the
adopted
father
of
Julius
Caesar
,
gave
him
timely
notice
of
a
dream
of
hers
,
concerning
him
,
which
he
despising
,
and
going
fearlesse
to
the
Senate-house
,
found
her
dream
to
sort
to
a
woful
effect
:
But
his
wise
Successour
,
Augustus
,
who
was
to
be
Revenger
of
his
blood
,
upon
the
Conspirators
,
made
better
use
of
anothers
dream
,
that
was
Antonius
his
Physitian
;
advising
him
,
though
he
was
sick
,
yet
he
should
not
fail
to
be
present
in
the
Battle
,
which
was
the
next
day
to
be
given
,
by
Brutus
and
Cassius
,
and
by
no
means
to
stay
in
his
Tent
,
which
he
would
have
done
,
had
not
Antonius
used
his
most
pressing
perswasions
to
the
contrary
,
which
was
the
saying
of
his
life
;
for
the
enemy
won
the
Tents
,
and
would
have
undoubtedly
destroyed
him
,
had
they
found
him
there
.
So
by
this
means
,
he
won
the
day
,
and
the
world
together
,
and
became
the
sole
peaceable
Monarch
of
the
Roman
Empire
;
that
under
his
Reign
,
our
Prince
of
Peace
,
and
Glorious
Redeemer
,
should
be
born
,
as
he
was
.
Now
,
God
forbid
,
that
we
should
think
the
Almighty
Providence
lesse
solicitous
,
over
the
persons
of
Christian
Princes
,
and
their
pious
proceedings
:
no
,
he
has
,
abundantly
shewed
,
that
no
Mother
,
or
Nurse
,
had
so
much
tender
affection
,
and
care
over
their
sucklings
,
as
his
goodnesse
has
shewed
it self
careful
in
their
pre-cautions
and
admonitions
of
dangers
,
and
most
frequent
conservations
,
which
all
Christian
Histories
are
full
of
:
But
indeed
,
we
need
go
no
further
,
than
to
the
Histories
of
the
holy
War
,
written
by
Paulus
Aemilius
,
and
Gulielmus
Tyrius
,
how
often
he
has
vouchsafed
missions
of
Angels
,
and
also
holy
Dreams
,
and
Visions
,
to
direct
those
pious
Princes
.
Nay
,
the
Lord
kept
the
very
birds
of
the
air
,
in
pay
under
Godfry
of
Bouillon
;
for
who
can
be
but
astonisht
,
to
hear
it
told
,
how
,
when
he
besieged
Jerusalem
,
the
Sultan
having
taught
pigeons
,
to
carry
messages
,
dispatched
one
of
them
with
a
Letter
,
which
she
bore
under
her
wings
,
to
give
some
advice
to
the
besieged
;
but
Providence
would
have
it
,
that
a
Hawk
seizing
on
her
,
just
over
the
Christian
Army
,
took
her
,
and
made
her
bring
her
information
to
the
Christians
,
touching
the
enemies
design
.
But
as
for
Dreams
,
the
three
last
Harry
's
of
France
,
are
undoubtedly
the
greatest
examples
,
who
all
were
divinely
admonisht
of
their
approaching
danger
of
death
,
by
their
Queens
,
and
other
Princes
of
their
blood
;
but
they
with
over-confidence
would
run
on
heedlesse
,
and
headlong
,
to
their
own
destruction
.
Nay
,
the
middlemost
of
the
three
,
besides
the
admonitions
,
he
receiv'd
from
the
Dreams
of
others
,
saw
himself
,
in
a
Dream
,
how
all
his
Royal
ornaments
,
viz.
his
Linnen
Vesture
,
Sandalls
,
Dalmatian
Robe
,
Mantle
of
Azure
Sattin
,
the
great
and
lesser
Crowns
,
Scepter
,
and
hand
of
Justice
,
Sword
,
and
Guilt-Spurs
,
all
bloody
,
and
fouled
with
peoples
feet
,
and
that
he
himself
was
very
angry
with
the
Sexton
of
St.
Denis
,
about
it
;
and
though
he
wanted
not
good
counsel
,
according
to
the
danger
of
his
Dream
,
to
stand
securely
upon
his
guard
,
and
make
use
of
the
fair
pre-monition
of
heaven
;
yet
would
,
forsooth
,
out
of
his
gallantry
,
expose
his
person
to
the
malice
of
those
,
who
kept
a
fatal
blow
in
store
for
him
.
I
cannot
stand
here
to
dispute
with
the
learned
Volaterranus
,
whether
all
men
in
general
,
going
to
Bed
,
not
cloy'd
with
bad
affections
,
nor
any
superfluities
of
meat
or
drink
,
but
being
throughout
vertuously
and
healthfully
disposed
,
their
souls
in
sleeping
,
may
not
foresee
things
to
come
:
for
I
must
hasten
to
accomplish
our
Parallel
:
and
it
is
indeed
,
as
much
as
concerns
our
present
purpose
,
to
say
,
that
we
are
very
certainly
sure
,
of
so
much
,
(
as
by
some
instances
has
been
shewed
already
,
and
might
be
by
many
more
)
that
the
Dreams
of
Kings
,
and
Princes
,
Prophets
,
Generals
of
Armies
,
Magistrates
,
and
all
Publick
Persons
,
that
hold
any
Eminent
Degree
,
either
in
Church
,
or
State
,
are
commonly
prophetical
,
and
monitory
,
of
things
to
come
,
or
to
be
done
:
This
I
say
,
by
grace
especial
and
Divine
,
not
Natural
,
as
may
more
plainly
appear
in
this
our
precious
Parallel
.
And
indeed
,
to
say
,
that
our
most
gracious
Lord
,
had
not
an
equal
care
,
of
his
late
sacred
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
as
he
had
of
the
former
,
of
an
Alexander
,
a
Julius
,
or
Augustus
Caesar
(
who
was
to
be
as
glorious
in
his
Victories
,
and
a
greater
Instrument
of
Divine
wonders
,
than
any
,
except
this
his
happy
Parallel
,
)
would
be
an
infidelity
greater
as
theirs
,
that
oppugne
Divine
Providence
it self
.
I
dare
not
yet
boldly
affirm
,
that
our
second
Moses
in
his
retirement
,
met
with
any
flaming
Bush
,
and
the
Lord
speaking
to
him
out
of
it
;
or
that
he
has
had
any
such
personal
discourses
,
with
the
Almighty
:
if
his
late
Highnesse
has
had
any
of
those
,
they
were
onely
then
known
,
as
I
believe
,
to
the
Lord
,
and
to
his
own
sacred
self
.
But
this
I
have
most
certainly
been
informed
,
that
his
Highnesse
had
many
Revelations
,
and
Divine
Dreams
,
to
the
same
purpose
,
admonishing
him
,
what
he
should
do
,
and
foretelling
him
what
he
should
arrive
at
:
which
that
I
may
not
prejudice
,
by
my
rude
relation
,
I
hold
better
to
passe
by
with
silence
,
till
some
that
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
was
pleased
to
make
knowing
of
them
,
shall
do
the
World
the
favour
,
as
to
make
the
discovery
.
But
so
much
is
notorious
to
all
these
Nations
,
that
as
our
second
Moses
was
retired
like
the
former
,
and
near
the
backside
of
the
Desert
too
,
but
still
near
the
Mountain
of
God
:
the
Lord
found
him
out
there
,
and
called
him
;
for
who
can
hide
,
what
the
Lord
will
bring
to
light
?
Sed
quis
te
Cyllarus
,
aut
Arion
posset
cripere
,
quem
sequebatur
imperium
?
as
was
most
excellently
said
by
Eumenius
.
What
Horse
or
Dolphin
is
so
swift
,
that
can
steal
from
mortal
eyes
,
a
person
whom
the
Providence
of
God
pursueth
with
Empire
in
hand
?
A
burning
,
and
a
speaking
Bush
,
must
call
the
first
Moses
from
his
retirement
,
to
deliver
and
conduct
his
brethren
out
of
bondage
;
and
no
lesse
,
I
am
sure
,
than
three
Kingdoms
all
in
a
flame
,
with
the
united
cries
of
so
many
millions
,
and
in
them
too
,
the
voice
of
God
,
for
so
is
vox
populi
,
could
move
our
incomparable
late
Protector
,
to
ingulph
himself
,
in
the
Ocean
of
Publick
imployment
.
We
have
seen
,
that
extraordinary
Persons
,
must
have
extraordinary
Calls
,
and
our
second
Moses
his
first
Call
,
from
his
dear
,
divine
solitude
,
was
a
publick
Parliamentary
Call
,
and
there
too
,
when
he
was
most
violently
perswaded
to
appear
;
how
long
was
it
,
before
he
could
induce
his
most
setled
and
serene
Soul
,
to
be
capable
of
the
sollicitudes
of
State
?
but
for
divers
years
sate
in
Parliament
,
and
Committees
,
upon
all
the
Common-wealths
occasions
,
as
the
Birds
of
Baruch
,
upon
white
thorns
,
and
as
the
Gyants
of
holy
Job
,
before
spoken
of
,
which
mourn'd
under
the
waters
:
and
this
we
shall
see
more
plainly
appear
,
in
the
processe
of
our
succeeding
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
The
seventh
Ascent
.
MOses
being
in
his
own
judgement
,
and
in
all
outward
appearance
,
unfit
for
so
great
a
Charge
,
was
very
unwillingly
perswaded
by
God
,
to
undertake
it
;
insomuch
,
Exod.
3.11
.
as
it
came
to
a
very
high
expostulation
between
them
.
Was
there
ever
such
a
dispute
with
the
Almighty
?
Or
was
there
ever
seen
such
a
difficulty
in
man
,
to
be
perswaded
to
so
high
a
point
of
preferment
?
Behold
what
arguments
he
raiseth
against
the
Lord
,
and
his
own
self
.
And
his
first
refusal
seems
to
proceed
,
from
a
vice
of
over-modesty
;
for
the
sacred
Text
tells
us
,
That
Moses
said
unto
God
,
Who
am
I
,
that
I
should
go
unto
Pharaoh
,
Ibid
v.
12.
and
that
I
should
bring
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
Egypt
?
which
the
Lord
was
pleased
graciously
to
answer
,
and
satisfie
with
an
assurance
,
that
he
world
be
with
him
,
&c.
Then
he
proceeds
to
something
of
a
double
diffidence
;
first
objecting
,
Behold
when
I
come
unto
the
children
of
Israel
,
and
shall
say
unto
them
,
V.
13.
the
God
of
your
fathers
hath
sent
me
unto
you
,
and
they
shall
say
unto
me
,
What
is
his
name
?
What
shall
I
say
unto
them
?
To
which
the
Lord
was
pleased
to
reply
,
by
condescending
to
give
him
his
Name
,
V.
14.
I
am
that
I
am
,
and
commanded
him
to
say
,
to
the
children
of
Israel
,
that
I
am
had
sent
him
unto
them
,
and
so
furnisht
him
with
a
large
Commission
,
and
instructions
.
But
yet
our
Moses
will
be
doubtful
still
of
the
force
and
effect
of
his
Almighty
Commission
;
for
he
answered
and
said
,
But
behold
they
will
not
believe
me
,
nor
hearken
unto
my
voice
;
Exod.
4.1
.
for
they
will
say
,
The
Lord
hath
not
appeared
unto
thee
.
Now
this
redoubled
doubt
,
and
diffidence
of
poor
Moses
,
the
most
gracious
Lord
pleased
to
reform
with
two
stupendious
miracles
,
and
so
to
frighten
him
into
a
better
obedience
:
V.
2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9
.
First
with
his
own
Rod
turned
into
a
Serpent
,
and
returned
into
a
Rod
again
;
and
then
with
his
own
hand
,
made
Leprous
,
and
whole
again
,
all
in
a
moment
;
so
drawing
,
as
it
were
,
its
contagion
,
and
cure
from
his
own
bosome
.
Nay
,
further
,
to
fortifie
his
faith
,
and
credit
his
Commission
,
with
the
children
of
Israel
,
the
Lord
assures
him
,
that
he
shall
have
the
power
to
turn
the
water
of
the
River
into
blood
upon
the
dry
Land
.
Now
after
all
this
,
was
it
possible
that
there
should
be
any
more
evasion
found
out
,
by
our
too
modest
Moses
?
Yes
surely
,
and
to
something
savouring
of
a
very
high
infidelity
:
For
Moses
replied
unto
the
Lord
,
O
my
Lord
,
I
am
not
eloquent
,
V.
10.
neither
heretofore
,
nor
since
thou
hast
spoken
unto
thy
servant
;
but
I
am
slow
of
speech
,
and
of
an
impedited
tongue
:
But
yet
behold
the
benignity
of
our
gracious
God
,
who
is
pleased
still
to
confute
him
,
without
any
takeing
of
offence
:
onely
asking
him
the
question
,
V.
11.12
.
Who
made
mans
mouth
,
or
who
maketh
the
dumb
or
the
deaf
,
or
the
seeing
,
or
the
blind
?
Have
not
I
the
Lord
?
then
assuring
him
,
that
he
will
be
with
his
mouth
,
and
teach
him
what
he
shall
say
.
What
could
be
expected
after
this
,
but
a
ready
assent
?
yet
instead
of
that
,
behold
he
flies
out
to
a
flat
denial
;
to
all
this
over-modesty
,
diffidence
,
and
almost
infidelity
,
he
will
yet
adde
obstinacy
,
and
a
dismal
disobedience
,
as
ever
was
heard
of
,
and
plainly
bid
the
Lord
send
whom
he
would
.
13.
Then
the
anger
of
the
Lord
was
kindled
against
Moses
;
yet
so
mercifully
,
as
to
be
pleased
to
reconcile
himself
to
him
instantly
again
,
and
by
further
assurances
of
his
Almighty
favours
,
with
the
promised
assistencie
of
his
brother
Aaron
,
so
to
convince
his
doubting
servant
,
14.
and
to
convert
him
to
a
more
resolute
faith
,
and
active
obedience
.
Thus
then
,
the
businesse
now
stands
agreed
on
,
our
poor
,
modest
,
diffident
,
and
fearful
,
Moses
,
is
now
become
a
faithful
,
and
a
stout
one
;
and
the
Lord
who
full
well
knew
before
,
his
capacities
to
discharge
,
is
now
pleased
to
pardon
his
long
unwillingnesse
to
perform
,
his
so
great
,
and
weighty
Commands
.
The
Parallel
.
Now
truly
our
second
Moses
,
cannot
appear
lesse
Parallel
to
the
first
,
in
this
his
unwillingnesse
to
accept
of
all
publick
Charges
,
than
he
has
done
in
all
his
accomplishments
of
parts
,
or
any
of
the
past
Ascents
.
And
yet
this
unwillingness
of
his
,
never
proceeded
from
any
diffidence
of
,
or
disobedience
to
,
any
Divine
Commands
,
which
was
indeed
,
the
fault
of
our
former
Moses
:
but
partly
from
his
own
humility
,
over-modesty
,
and
high
contempt
of
all
earthly
things
.
His
sanctified
spirit
lookt
upon
all
those
flattering
flourishes
,
of
this
worlds
greatnesse
,
no
otherwise
,
than
as
the
true
gardens
of
Adonis
,
which
in
the
beginning
make
a
fair
shew
of
some
si●ly
flowers
,
but
in
conclusion
,
afford
nothing
but
thorns
.
He
alwayes
reckoned
,
that
the
Careers
of
the
greatest
honours
here
below
,
were
but
of
ice
,
and
most
commonly
bounded
with
headlong
ruins
.
He
found
in
his
younger
judgement
,
as
we
have
seen
,
(
though
certainly
it
was
an
inspired
piece
of
prudence
)
that
all
the
pitiful
felicities
of
this
life
,
were
onely
floating
Islands
,
which
recoil
backwards
,
when
a
man
thinks
for
to
touch
them
,
with
his
fingers
;
or
as
the
Feasts
of
Heliogabalus
,
where
were
fair
invitations
,
many
reverences
,
and
many
services
;
but
in
the
end
,
nothing
but
a
Table
appears
,
set
out
with
a
Banquet
made
of
wax
,
which
melts
before
the
fire
,
and
from
whence
a
man
must
return
,
more
hungry
than
he
came
:
Or
yet
,
more
like
the
inchanted
egg
of
Oromazes
,
wherein
the
impudent
Magician
,
boasted
to
have
inclosed
all
the
happinesse
of
the
Universe
;
but
when
it
was
opened
,
there
was
found
,
nothing
but
wind
.
These
were
the
solitary
considerations
that
moved
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
to
his
so
long
and
close
concealment
of
himself
.
And
indeed
,
the
heavenly
Providence
over
this
great
Person
,
(
if
we
look
well
throughout
him
)
can
never
be
otherwise
read
,
then
(
as
letters
written
with
the
juice
of
Limon
)
by
the
help
of
fire
,
or
flame
of
a
burning
Bush
,
as
before
,
which
must
not
onely
flame
neither
,
but
must
consume
even
to
his
own
door
,
may
be
ready
to
involve
all
in
a
general
conflagration
,
before
he
would
at
all
think
himself
to
be
concerned
,
or
busily
bestirre
himself
to
quench
it
:
or
before
he
would
undertake
(
the
unhappy
necessities
of
State
then
requiring
a
war
)
any
part
of
his
incomparable
Mosaical
conduct
.
So
that
we
may
at
last
affirm
,
and
conclude
of
him
,
as
Claudian
does
of
his
brave
Emperour
Theodosius
,
that
Solus
meruit
regnare
rogatus
,
there
is
none
worthy
of
a
Crown
,
but
he
that
must
be
importun'd
to
it
.
Now
some
we
know
there
have
been
,
that
have
had
an
most
enraged
desire
to
Empire
,
and
yet
would
feign
themselves
to
have
all
the
aversions
in
the
world
against
it
;
and
so
have
caused
themselves
,
to
be
carryed
to
their
Thrones
,
like
unwilling
beasts
to
the
slaughter
.
The
truth
of
it
is
,
the
heart
of
man
,
as
the
Scripture
tells
us
,
is
inscrutable
above
all
things
,
and
more
especially
so
,
in
point
of
ambition
;
and
I
have
often
considered
those
three
difficult
questions
which
the
Angel
proposed
to
Esdras
,
to
weigh
the
fire
,
to
measure
the
wind
,
and
to
number
the
veins
of
the
Abyss
,
and
really
I
find
,
the
intricacy
of
an
exorbitant
ambition
,
to
be
all
that
.
Ambition
is
a
devouring
fire
,
who
can
poise
it
?
It
is
a
most
robustious
violent
wind
,
who
can
hold
,
or
fathom
it
?
It
is
a
bottomlesse
Abyss
,
who
can
count
the
issues
,
and
the
sources
of
it
?
The
middle
of
the
Earth
,
hath
been
found
,
the
depth
of
the
Sea
hath
been
sounded
,
the
height
of
the
Alpes
,
and
Riphaean
Hills
,
themselves
has
be
taken
,
and
measured
,
the
remotest
limits
of
the
hollow
caverns
of
Caucasus
,
have
been
dived
into
;
the
head-spring
of
Nilus
it self
,
hath
not
escaped
the
discovery
:
onely
,
in
the
hearts
of
men
,
we
cannot
find
the
bounds
of
desire
of
commanding
.
This
(
I
say
)
is
too
true
,
in
the
community
of
men
;
but
his
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
has
ever
given
such
visible
and
apparent
proofes
,
of
his
divine
self-denying
spirit
,
and
such
irrefragable
arguments
,
of
his
reall
reluctancies
,
against
all
offers
whatsoever
,
of
wordly
greatnesse
,
that
malice
it self
,
cannot
object
,
the
least
spot
of
ambition
to
have
possest
his
inspired
bosom
.
For
first
,
we
have
seen
,
how
long
he
was
pleased
to
conceal
himself
,
like
his
dear
Master
Moses
,
in
the
backside
of
the
Desart
,
near
to
the
Mountain
of
God
,
where
he
could
have
no
conversation
,
but
with
him
,
and
his
own
soul
;
and
we
all
know
how
unwilling
he
was
,
to
forsake
that
his
beloved
humble
retreat
,
which
sure
he
had
never
done
,
if
he
had
not
studied
most
thoroughly
the
best
of
Poets
,
so
often
repeated
,
Sic
vos
,
non
vobis
:
and
been
more
divinely
taught
,
that
all
which
is
most
excellent
in
creatures
,
is
not
for
the
creatures
,
which
possesse
it
;
as
light
is
not
in
the
Sun
,
for
the
Sun
it self
,
nor
waters
are
in
the
Ocean
,
for
the
Ocean
it self
.
The
great
God
of
the
Universe
,
who
gave
Brightnesse
to
the
one
,
and
Rivers
to
the
other
,
would
,
that
both
should
tend
to
the
publick
commodity
of
men
,
and
has
thereby
ordained
them
,
to
passe
on
to
the
glory
of
the
Soveraign
Being
.
His
inspired
Highnesse
,
full
well
knew
,
that
Kingdoms
were
not
made
so
much
for
Kings
,
as
Kings
for
their
Kingdoms
;
for
they
are
made
so
,
and
set
over
them
,
to
this
end
onely
,
to
do
them
,
not
themselves
,
good
,
and
to
protect
them
,
and
preserve
them
,
as
the
goods
of
God
himself
.
His
Highnesse
likewise
considered
,
that
so
soon
as
a
man
is
born
with
,
and
bred
up
to
,
fair
and
worthy
parts
,
he
is
to
employ
himself
,
and
them
,
for
the
publick
good
;
and
he
who
would
retain
to
himself
,
what
Divine
Providence
gave
in
common
,
commits
a
sacriledge
in
the
great
Temple
of
the
God
of
Nature
;
and
he
that
perpetually
reflects
on
himself
in
all
things
,
and
draws
,
as
it
were
,
all
to
himself
,
as
if
he
were
so
made
,
onely
for
himself
,
opposeth
his
Creator
,
and
Judge
,
and
makes
himself
corrival
with
the
Soveraign
Majesty
of
Heaven
.
Now
after
that
our
second
Moses
,
had
,
upon
these
Divine
considerations
,
been
drawn
to
put
himself
forth
upon
publick
Services
,
we
all
know
,
how
unwilling
he
has
been
to
receive
the
dues
of
his
own
honours
,
and
how
desirous
he
was
rather
to
wrap
himself
up
,
nay
,
to
bury
himself
,
if
he
could
have
done
it
,
in
his
first
colours
,
than
to
proceed
to
higher
Commands
,
which
being
still
enforced
upon
him
by
his
own
Mosaical
merits
,
we
have
seen
likewise
with
what
humility
,
and
great
candor
of
spirit
,
he
has
ever
managed
them
.
And
when
the
pressing
necessities
of
State
required
,
that
one
single
person
should
sit
at
the
Helme
,
and
that
he
was
pointed
out
,
both
by
God
and
man
,
for
that
purpose
;
how
unwilling
was
he
to
accept
the
Charge
?
insomuch
,
that
when
the
Protector
at
of
these
Nations
,
was
so
violently
pressed
upon
him
,
by
the
then
wearied
Parliament
;
who
knows
not
,
with
what
sighs
,
and
groans
,
not
to
be
uttered
,
and
sad
regrets
,
lesse
to
be
understood
,
he
was
at
length
pleased
to
undergo
the
Charge
?
Nay
,
yet
further
,
Is
it
not
most
evident
,
how
to
his
very
last
day
,
he
has
with
an
incomparable
constancy
,
and
magnanimity
of
spirit
,
refused
and
resisted
,
all
those
urgent
importunities
of
Parliament
,
and
People
,
Council
,
and
Army
,
pressing
the
Crown
,
and
the
Title
of
King
upon
him
?
And
in
all
this
,
has
he
not
most
perfectly
proved
himself
,
the
follower
of
his
pattern
,
and
great
Master
Moses
?
who
was
not
onely
unwilling
to
receive
the
honour
of
Captain
General
over
his
Brethren
,
but
refused
and
contemned
the
whole
Court
,
and
Kingdom
of
Pharaoh
.
Thus
our
blessed
Saviour
,
the
Pattern
of
all
patterns
,
to
convince
the
World
,
that
he
was
the
Example
of
all
perfection
,
would
appear
onely
great
in
refusing
of
a
whole
world
,
which
the
Devil
did
,
as
it
were
,
unfold
to
him
,
before
his
feet
.
So
,
doubtlesse
,
it
was
his
Divine
will
likewise
,
that
the
vertue
of
the
greatest
men
,
should
appear
clearly
in
the
refusal
of
the
greatest
honours
,
when
as
,
by
his
Spirit
,
the
blessed
Baptist
,
refused
the
greatest
of
all
Titles
,
which
was
to
own
the
high
honour
,
and
name
of
the
Messiah
.
Indeed
,
it
is
a
most
particular
grace
,
and
favour
afforded
by
God
;
to
make
a
man
to
open
his
eyes
upon
himself
,
to
know
himself
as
he
ought
,
to
measure
himself
,
and
to
set
limits
upon
his
own
desires
.
Now
this
especial
grace
,
we
see
the
Lord
has
largely
bestowed
upon
these
his
two
extraordinary
Servants
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
.
And
indeed
,
my
Lord
alwayes
lookt
upon
those
spirits
with
pity
,
who
outragiously
mad
after
greatnesse
,
pursue
it
with
all
manner
of
toil
,
and
sinister
practices
,
and
never
counted
them
to
be
otherwise
,
than
as
bubbles
,
that
rise
on
the
water
in
the
time
of
a
Tempest
,
which
both
encrease
,
and
crack
in
a
moment
.
That
wretched
sordid
ambition
it
was
,
which
made
the
great
Roman
Emperours
of
old
,
to
sit
so
slippery
upon
their
Thrones
,
and
to
live
,
indeed
,
but
the
age
of
flowers
,
still
driving
one
another
out
,
as
nailes
do
;
or
as
the
waves
that
are
still
beating
one
another
,
to
be
broken
against
Rocks
.
No
,
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
like
the
first
,
was
ever
elevated
to
so
high
a
pitch
of
Holy
,
and
Divine
contemplations
,
that
he
lookt
upon
all
the
greedy
Great
ones
of
the
World
,
but
as
so
many
pitiful
Ants
,
furiously
contending
for
a
poor
simple
grain
of
earth
:
and
truly
,
the
vast
distance
of
his
high
spirit
,
from
all
sublunary
things
,
made
the
whole
Globe
of
the
World
,
appear
to
him
no
otherwise
,
than
as
a
little
point
,
and
that
almost
imperceptible
:
good
reason
therefore
had
his
Mosaical
prudence
,
to
be
unwilling
,
to
trouble
himself
at
all
about
it
;
but
enough
has
been
said
as
to
that
,
so
we
'l
hasten
,
from
the
unwillingnesse
of
these
our
two
Grand
Masters
to
accept
,
to
celebrate
their
promptnesse
,
fidelity
,
and
activity
,
in
the
glorious
execution
,
of
their
several
Charges
:
which
will
abundantly
appear
in
our
after
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
The
eighth
Ascent
.
MOses
found
the
Lord
faithful
,
in
the
performance
of
all
his
promised
assistance
to
him
:
by
which
means
,
Exod.
7.
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
,
Exod.
5.
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
.
Exod.
6.
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
,
Exod.
7.
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
,
Exod.
8.
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
Ibid
v.
19.
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
,
Exod.
9.
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
,
Exod.
10
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
,
Exod.
12.
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
;
Exod.
14.
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
of
Israels
Deliverance
,
to
be
throughout
Typical
of
ours
,
and
all
the
circumstances
of
effecting
it
by
the
first
Moses
,
as
plainly
to
apply
themselves
,
to
our
glorious
second
.
Can
any
say
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
has
done
lesse
wonders
for
us
,
and
our
Deliverance
,
or
found
the
Lord
lesse
assistant
to
him
,
in
his
miraculous
undertakings
,
than
the
former
?
If
any
such
there
be
,
we
shall
very
easily
convince
them
.
True
it
is
,
we
cannot
say
literally
,
that
his
Highnesse
was
enforced
to
bring
so
many
miraculous
plagues
upon
our
Egyptians
;
but
we
all
,
as
well
the
people
of
God
,
as
their
Task-masters
,
lay
under
the
perfect
moral
of
all
those
plagues
,
before
he
,
like
another
Hercules
Alexicacus
,
did
rise
up
in
our
Israel
,
and
undertake
,
our
so
great
and
wonderful
Delivery
:
and
so
we
will
now
look
upon
him
,
marching
in
a
perfect
line
Parallel
,
with
all
those
very
actions
and
singular
circumstances
;
I
say
still
in
the
moral
,
and
will
dare
to
equal
him
here
too
,
with
the
former
mighty
Moses
,
even
in
those
his
most
stupendious
passages
.
And
first
we
may
see
,
how
our
second
Moses
,
had
no
sooner
cast
his
sacred
Rod
upon
the
ground
,
here
in
England
,
that
is
,
did
vote
in
open
Parliament
,
to
undertake
so
just
and
honourable
a
War
,
as
that
for
the
redemption
of
this
people
,
out
of
their
Captivity
,
then
more
than
Egyptian
,
but
the
Magicians
of
England
likewise
,
that
is
,
the
pretended
Prelats
,
and
their
party
,
would
endeavour
to
do
the
like
,
and
,
in
effect
,
did
so
;
for
they
turned
their
crooked
Croziers
,
into
frery
Serpents
too
,
raising
of
men
,
and
arms
,
to
resist
our
Mosaical
Reformation
;
but
the
sacred
Rod
,
of
our
second
Moses
,
as
that
of
the
former
,
has
manifestly
devoured
all
their
bloody
and
serpentine
endeavours
.
Nay
,
when
rivers
of
blood
,
were
made
to
run
upon
English
ground
,
in
our
just
defence
,
they
would
needs
,
likewise
,
by
their
Negromantick
malice
,
make
those
Rivers
to
overflow
with
blood
too
,
for
the
support
of
their
Tyrannical
and
usurped
power
:
which
that
they
might
the
better
do
too
,
they
would
raise
their
swarms
,
and
infinities
of
Frogs
to
follow
them
,
I
mean
,
those
croaking
and
skipping
Church-men
,
that
were
the
truest
Trumpets
of
the
War
,
whose
Religion
onely
was
interest
,
and
God
their
gain
,
so
made
it
their
businesse
,
to
cover
their
pernicious
prelatical
designs
,
with
the
cloak
of
the
Gospel
,
not
careing
,
so
they
might
,
by
preaching
,
infuse
their
malice
into
others
,
to
become
Cast-awayes
themselves
;
as
the
Apostle
forwarns
us
of
them
,
and
our
blessed
Saviour
too
,
terming
them
Wolves
in
Sheeps
cloathing
.
But
yet
,
when
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
was
pleased
to
stretch
forth
his
Divine
Rod
again
,
and
smite
the
dust
of
the
earth
into
Lice
(
sit
verbo
venia
)
that
is
,
when
he
raised
from
the
dust
of
the
earth
,
those
poor
,
humble
,
self-denying
creatures
,
that
were
as
much
nothing
in
their
own
,
as
in
the
worlds
eye
,
I
mean
those
incomparable
Persons
,
as
they
have
since
proved
themselves
,
whom
he
then
new
modell'd
into
an
Army
;
Then
those
,
all
the
pretended
Great
ones
,
were
at
a
gaze
;
their
malice
nor
magick
could
do
no
more
.
But
yet
further
,
let
us
observe
,
and
remember
how
poor
We
,
suffered
under
the
moral
,
of
all
those
other
plagues
of
Egypt
too
,
until
our
sacred
second
Moses
,
undertook
that
mighty
Work
,
has
Terris
&
Templis
avertere
pestes
:
Were
we
not
opprest
in
like
manner
,
with
those
innumerable
armies
of
Flies
,
those
insolent
animals
,
strange
swarms
of
buzzing
Courtiers
,
that
were
still
begging
of
their
easie
Master
,
some
private
Boon
,
or
other
,
to
the
prejudice
of
the
Publick
,
putting
their
fingers
in
every
dish
,
and
picking
something
out
of
every
mans
pocket
,
or
property
;
and
has
not
our
second
Moses
delivered
us
likewise
from
all
those
?
Then
for
the
miraculous
plague
of
Boiles
and
Blaines
,
had
we
not
enough
of
those
too
,
by
the
malice
of
our
Monopolists
,
Projectors
,
and
other
Encroachers
,
upon
the
poor
subjects
liberties
,
and
properties
,
which
have
been
truly
called
in
all
Ages
Vlcera
Rei
Publicae
:
the
Ulcers
and
Imposthumes
of
the
Common-wealth
?
And
has
not
his
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
his
sacred
Rod
,
that
is
,
his
Sword
,
most
happily
,
and
timely
,
lanced
those
sores
,
and
given
us
a
sure
and
perfect
Cure
?
Then
,
as
for
those
horrid
storms
of
Hail
,
Thunder
,
and
Fire
mingled
with
water
,
of
which
the
Earth
never
saw
the
like
,
as
the
Text
tells
us
;
What
did
they
emblematize
to
us
,
but
those
dire
ebullitions
of
Tyranny
,
over
our
Religions
,
liberties
and
properties
,
which
went
not
onely
about
to
destroy
our
present
fruits
,
but
to
take
away
all
our
Natural
,
and
Eternal
Rights
in
them
?
And
has
not
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
given
us
a
blessed
delivery
from
all
that
mischief
too
?
Then
for
those
millions
of
Locusts
,
that
invaded
the
Land
of
Egypt
;
what
legions
of
lewd
Lawyers
had
we
,
that
swarmed
amongst
us
like
to
Caterpillers
indeed
,
from
the
unjust
Judge
,
to
the
sordid
Advocate
,
and
from
him
,
to
the
meanest
Clarke
?
a
sort
of
men
,
that
could
accommodate
their
Laws
,
like
a
nose
of
wax
,
to
all
intents
and
purposes
whatsoever
,
making
the
sacred
Seat
of
Justice
,
it self
,
a
stalking-horse
to
Tyranny
;
Law
to
countenance
oppression
,
and
Truth
it self
to
lye
?
And
has
not
our
second
Moses
,
pretty
well
delivered
us
from
all
those
petty-fogging
plagues
too
?
Then
was
there
ever
any
more
prodigious
darknesse
,
over
the
face
of
a
whole
Land
?
so
grosse
an
ignorance
of
Religion
?
all
Divinity
,
forsooth
,
and
saving
knowledge
,
being
bound
up
,
and
roosting
it self
in
a
pitiful
,
lazy
,
luxurious
,
Bishops
Rotchet
,
as
in
its
onely
Sanctuary
;
I
am
sure
the
whole
light
of
the
Gospel
,
was
concealed
under
the
ridiculous
covering
of
their
Canonical
coats
,
as
they
call
them
,
and
we
kept
in
more
than
Egyptian
Darknesse
,
till
by
the
flaming
Sword
,
of
our
second
Moses
,
we
were
restored
to
that
wonderful
light
,
which
we
lately
have
,
and
do
still
enjoy
,
under
his
late
Highnesse
his
,
and
his
Princely
sons
,
Government
.
Then
,
for
the
last
plague
of
all
,
which
was
the
smiting
of
the
first-born
,
what
can
be
more
parallel
to
it
,
than
the
savage
cruelty
,
formerly
exercised
by
the
Court
of
Wards
,
over
the
heirs
of
all
the
Principal
Houses
of
England
?
who
were
there
doubly
smitten
,
both
in
their
persons
,
and
estates
;
Their
lands
pillaged
by
every
poleing
Guardian
,
and
themselves
sold
like
slaves
,
or
horses
in
a
Market
,
and
condemned
to
what
is
commonly
worse
than
death
,
to
a
wife
of
another
mans
election
.
From
all
these
Plagues
,
and
Diabolical
inchantments
,
has
not
our
second
Moses
most
happily
freed
us
too
?
and
,
to
crown
all
his
glories
,
as
the
former
Moses
did
,
Has
he
not
seen
a
Pharaoh
and
his
Armies
drencht
in
a
Red
Sea
of
their
own
blood
?
Now
,
how
impossible
it
is
to
conceive
,
that
all
this
could
be
brought
about
,
without
the
miraculous
assistance
of
the
Almighty
,
they
can
best
judge
,
who
have
been
the
witnesses
of
his
great
Actions
,
and
know
how
remarkable
his
proceedings
have
been
,
from
the
very
first
undertaking
of
these
Nations
Deliverance
:
For
,
first
he
began
but
with
one
poor
single
Troop
,
which
how
instantly
grew
into
a
Regiment
,
and
that
into
an
Army
,
and
that
Army
to
give
Laws
,
as
it
were
,
to
all
the
World
,
no
man
can
believe
,
that
has
not
seen
it
,
or
else
been
taught
faith
enough
,
to
understand
the
Cloud
,
that
Elias
saw
no
bigger
than
a
hand
,
which
in
a
moment
,
overspread
the
whole
heavens
;
or
that
Fountain
of
Mardochaeus
,
which
,
in
the
beginning
,
crept
on
with
little
noise
,
through
the
Meadows
,
and
in
an
instant
,
turned
into
a
great
River
,
&
that
River
into
Light
,
&
this
Light
into
a
Sun
,
and
such
a
Sun
which
afforded
both
luster
,
and
water
,
to
all
the
World
.
The
plain
truth
is
,
that
the
accession
of
his
Highnesses
Forces
,
as
his
successes
,
have
been
so
miraculous
,
that
they
appear
more
like
visions
,
than
realities
;
and
,
as
antiquity
can
find
nothing
in
the
like
kind
,
(
unlesse
this
president
of
our
first
Moses
)
for
to
equal
them
:
so
Posterity
will
be
as
much
puzled
to
believe
them
,
as
we
shall
see
more
at
large
,
in
our
future
Ascents
,
which
treate
of
the
invincible
Valour
,
matchlesse
Prudence
,
and
incomparable
Greatnesse
of
Military
Conduct
,
in
these
two
our
Mosaical
Masters
.
The
ninth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
most
miserably
disturbed
,
and
injuriously
persecuted
,
with
the
frequent
misprizions
,
malitious
repinings
,
and
ungrateful
murmurings
,
of
the
common
people
:
And
,
indeed
,
it
is
not
a
little
wonderful
,
to
observe
,
how
our
Patriarch
,
has
no
sooner
escaped
from
the
face
of
Pharaoh
,
and
malice
of
his
Magicians
,
but
,
he
is
brought
to
a
terrible
trial
of
his
patience
,
with
his
own
people
:
who
find
themselves
,
no
sooner
out
of
bondage
,
by
his
means
,
but
they
must
presently
set
their
tongues
at
liberty
,
to
raile
against
their
glorious
Captain
,
and
Deliverer
.
Now
,
first
they
begin
their
game
,
upon
the
sight
of
Pharaohs
pursuite
of
them
;
flying
upon
him
thus
.
Because
there
were
no
graves
in
Egypt
,
Eod.
14.1
.
hast
thou
taken
us
away
to
die
in
the
Wildernesse
?
&c.
Nor
were
they
sooner
delivered
from
that
danger
,
being
led
dry-foot
through
the
middle
of
the
Ocean
,
which
had
swallowed
up
the
fury
of
Pharaoh
,
and
all
his
Host
:
but
coming
on
the
other
side
of
the
Sea
,
they
must
murmur
again
,
Exod.
15.24
.
against
poor
Moses
,
because
the
waters
there
,
were
something
bitter
,
and
so
he
was
constrained
to
deal
a
double
Miracle
,
the
one
to
sweeten
the
waters
,
the
other
them
;
so
the
people
were
for
the
present
pacified
.
Now
their
thirst
was
no
sooner
quenched
,
but
they
must
be
murmuring
again
,
for
want
of
bread
,
and
upbraid
their
Redeemer
,
for
their
very
Deliverance
,
telling
him
in
plain
terms
,
to
his
face
,
that
he
might
have
done
well
to
have
let
them
alone
,
when
they
sate
by
the
flesh-pots
of
Egypt
,
and
did
eat
bread
to
their
full
,
taxing
him
of
a
design
,
to
starve
them
in
the
Wildernesse
.
Exod.
16.3
.
Then
was
bread
most
wonderfully
rained
down
from
Heaven
,
to
stop
their
mutinous
mouths
,
and
yet
that
most
miraculous
,
and
celestial
food
,
could
not
content
them
;
for
at
the
very
next
turn
,
they
must
make
as
fierce
an
out-cry
for
a
little
water
.
Nay
,
the
Text
tells
us
,
that
they
were
so
insolent
,
as
to
chide
with
Moses
for
it
,
Exod.
17.2
.
and
the
place
was
called
Massah
,
and
Meribah
,
because
of
the
chiding
of
the
children
of
Israel
:
Yet
the
Lord
being
pleased
to
appease
so
perverse
a
people
,
V.
7.
made
Moses
whom
the
murmured
at
,
to
bestow
another
miracle
upon
them
,
and
to
broach
a
Rock
,
to
afford
them
drink
.
And
yet
after
so
many
stupendious
supplies
of
their
wants
,
and
more
miraculous
forbearances
,
to
punish
their
repining
spirits
,
the
Devil
of
disobedience
,
and
sedition
,
will
not
so
be
satisfied
,
but
this
rebellious
people
,
must
be
still
grumbling
again
against
Moses
,
till
the
fire
of
Heaven
,
had
almost
consumed
them
all
;
Num.
11.
and
yet
at
the
importunity
of
good
Moses
,
that
all
was
no
sooner
quenched
,
but
they
must
nauseat
,
and
loath
,
the
very
bread
of
Heaven
;
and
cry
out
,
forsooth
,
for
flesh
.
Nothing
we
know
can
satisfie
irregular
appetites
,
yet
that
lust
of
theirs
must
be
satiated
too
,
by
such
a
shower
of
Quailes
,
as
never
the
earth
saw
,
though
there
,
that
meat
was
made
a
mortal
poison
to
the
mutineers
.
Nay
,
yet
,
after
all
these
fair
warnings
,
so
many
miraculous
supplies
,
and
so
much
long-suffering
of
the
Lords
,
and
his
servant
Moses
with
them
,
they
must
pick
a
quarrel
with
him
still
;
nay
,
go
about
to
make
a
general
revolt
,
and
to
depose
him
from
his
Charge
,
and
all
,
forsooth
,
because
they
saw
before
them
,
the
huge
bugbear
Gyants
of
the
sons
of
Anack
:
Num.
14.
for
they
said
unto
one
another
,
We
are
brought
hither
,
to
fall
by
the
Sword
;
Come
let
us
chuse
another
Captain
,
and
let
us
return
into
Egypt
.
This
was
a
dismal
mutiny
indeed
,
and
for
that
,
the
Lord
would
have
extirpated
them
all
,
but
for
the
importunate
prayer
of
our
injured
Moses
:
Though
it
was
so
contrary
to
his
own
interest
too
;
for
the
Lord
offered
him
,
to
make
of
himself
a
people
,
mightier
,
and
a
greater
Nation
,
than
they
were
:
but
the
gracious
Lord
was
so
taken
off
from
his
vengeance
,
and
our
Clement
Moses
was
content
to
continue
the
Charge
,
and
still
charitably
to
conduct
so
rebellious
,
and
disobedient
a
people
,
though
their
many
after
mutinies
,
and
base
murmurings
,
drew
more
and
more
plagues
upon
them
,
as
that
of
the
terrible
fiery
Serpents
,
and
divers
others
,
too
tedious
now
to
relate
,
being
called
to
hasten
to
our
precious
Parallel
.
The
Parallel
.
No
other
treatment
than
this
,
can
all
good
Princes
,
Jud.
8.
and
Governours
expect
from
the
rude
Populace
,
qui
ipsam
dominationem
spernunt
,
&
majestatem
blasphemant
,
who
are
alwayes
addicted
to
despise
Dominion
,
and
blaspheme
Majesty
it self
,
as
the
Apostle
tells
us
;
They
are
never
better
pleased
,
then
when
they
can
,
as
Austin
well
expresseth
it
,
in
Principes
petulantem
ingenii
sui
libidinem
procacitur
exercere
:
August
.
spend
the
lust
of
their
petulant
tongues
upon
their
Princes
.
The
same
humour
was
not
amisse
remarkt
,
by
the
acute
Historian
in
his
time
,
Loquax
sane
&
ingeniosus
,
Tacitus
.
in
contumeliam
Praefectorum
,
populus
;
inter
quos
qui
vitaverit
culpam
,
non
effugit
infamiam
:
The
people
,
saith
he
,
are
naturally
talkative
,
and
love
to
shew
their
little
wits
,
in
casting
of
contumelies
against
their
Governours
,
none
of
whom
,
can
carry
themselves
so
well
,
as
to
be
clear
from
blame
,
though
they
are
free
from
fault
:
and
the
Philosopher
gives
some
reason
for
it
,
Seneca
.
Male
de
illis
loquuntur
Nequam
homines
,
quia
bene
loqui
nesciunt
,
faciunt
non
quod
merentur
illi
,
sed
quod
solent
ipsi
:
wicked
people
,
saith
he
,
speak
ill
of
their
Princes
,
because
they
know
not
how
to
speak
well
;
and
so
what
they
do
,
is
according
to
their
own
custom
,
not
the
others
deserving
.
Indeed
,
we
full
well
know
,
that
this
great
Beast
,
the
people
,
is
a
monster
of
many
heads
,
and
those
heads
,
have
as
many
horns
,
to
gore
,
and
gall
,
their
Governours
.
Since
then
this
mischievous
humour
has
prevailed
in
all
Ages
,
and
amongst
all
Nations
,
and
is
become
now
perfectly
customary
to
the
mad
multitude
,
from
whom
,
neither
the
Crowns
of
Kings
,
nor
Miters
of
the
greatest
Prelates
,
can
be
secure
;
Why
should
our
second
Moses
,
his
late
Highnesse
,
trouble
himself
more
about
it
,
than
his
great
Pattern
,
and
Prototype
,
the
former
Moses
did
?
They
both
knew
full
well
,
that
such
wicked
,
ill-natured
,
depraved
,
and
perverse
people
,
there
would
be
still
in
the
World
,
and
that
by
Gods
especial
permission
too
,
for
the
exercise
of
his
servants
vertues
.
Vinegar
is
said
to
be
very
necessary
,
for
the
purifying
,
and
polishing
of
some
precious
Stones
,
which
have
their
fire
(
as
it
were
)
frozen
over
,
and
their
luster
eclipsed
,
by
some
dark
substance
,
or
earthy
interposition
:
So
great
spirits
,
ought
to
have
some
little
touch
or
taste
of
Acerbities
,
to
enlighten
their
valours
,
and
illustrate
all
their
other
vertues
:
And
so
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
we
shall
without
much
difficulty
,
in
this
particular
,
accomplish
our
happy
Parallel
.
Has
our
glorious
second
Moses
been
lesse
injured
by
venemous
tongues
?
lesse
persecuted
with
the
misprizions
,
repinings
,
and
malitious
murmurings
,
of
these
mutinous
Nations
,
than
our
first
Moses
has
been
,
with
his
stiff-necked
Israelites
?
Or
,
has
his
Highnesse
shewed
lesse
patience
in
bearing
,
or
greater
magnanimity
in
contemning
those
cursed
contumelies
,
with
which
some
Diabolical
creatures
have
attempted
to
asperse
his
Divine
vertues
,
than
that
his
first
Pattern
or
Prototype
has
done
?
No
,
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
could
never
be
disturbed
with
those
petit
clouds
of
vulgar
ignominies
,
no
more
,
than
the
Supream
Sphere
of
the
celestial
Bodies
,
can
be
moved
,
by
any
distempers
here
below
.
His
Sacred
Highnesse
,
likewise
knew
,
that
he
had
a
greater
example
,
than
that
of
his
Master
Moses
too
,
to
follow
,
in
that
grand
point
of
temper
,
towards
his
people
,
and
that
is
the
Almighty
Lord
of
Heaven
himself
.
Who
has
borne
more
injuries
from
the
wicked
mouths
of
men
,
than
his
Divine
Majesty
has
done
?
insomuch
,
as
old
Tertullian
tells
us
,
Tertul.
That
to
bear
an
injury
gallantly
,
is
a
true
ray
of
the
Divinity
it self
:
and
Cyprian
,
Cyprian
:
de
patientia
.
as
elegantly
as
he
,
in
his
Treatise
that
he
composed
of
patience
,
confirms
to
us
,
That
this
brave
bearing
of
injuries
,
is
not
onely
the
proper
vertue
of
true
Nobility
,
but
a
most
glorious
property
of
the
Deity
.
Est
nobis
(
saith
he
)
cum
Deo
virtus
communis
,
inde
patientia
incipit
,
inde
Claritas
ejus
&
dignitas
caput
sumit
;
So
he
is
bold
to
make
it
not
onely
to
be
the
very
Essence
of
God
,
but
the
Clarity
,
and
Dignity
of
his
Nature
.
And
indeed
,
when
we
deeply
consider
,
the
great
long-suffering
of
our
good
God
,
for
so
many
Ages
,
how
he
has
permitted
to
stand
so
many
Temples
of
abominable
Idols
,
that
were
erected
to
the
very
contempt
of
his
holy
Name
,
and
in
the
defiance
of
his
Power
:
How
he
has
been
pleased
still
to
suffer
dayes
and
times
to
circumvolve
,
rivers
to
glide
,
winds
to
blow
,
the
Spring
to
put
on
a
green
,
and
the
Autumn
a
saffron
Robe
,
grapes
and
corn
to
ripen
,
the
Elements
to
serve
,
and
hold
universal
Nature
in
breath
,
to
supply
a
thousand
millions
of
Sacrifices
,
every
day
offered
to
Hell
it self
;
How
he
has
still
continued
to
cast
even
flowers
from
Heaven
,
with
a
bountiful
and
free
hand
upon
the
audacious
heads
of
his
most
contumacious
enemies
,
who
better
deserved
to
have
received
so
many
stroaks
,
of
his
angry
Thunder-bolts
.
So
,
when
we
consider
,
the
great
long
animity
,
and
patience
,
of
our
ever
blessed
Saviour
,
in
bearing
the
cursed
contumelies
,
and
insolencies
of
the
perfidious
Jews
,
which
were
so
horrid
,
that
total
Nature
it self
groaned
under
them
,
the
Sun
could
not
behold
them
,
but
be
eclipsed
,
nor
the
Stars
attend
,
but
in
their
sad
and
mourning
weeds
,
and
the
whole
frame
of
the
Universe
,
suffer
a
most
sharp
convulsion
,
both
above
,
and
below
his
Crosse
;
and
yet
he
in
the
mean
time
,
as
unconcerned
in
his
own
sufferings
,
was
pleased
to
remain
upon
it
quietly
,
though
bloodily
affixt
to
it
,
and
undisturbed
as
in
a
chair
of
State
,
without
any
the
least
emotion
.
Who
would
not
now
suffer
himself
to
be
carryed
away
,
with
the
study
of
this
most
glorious
vertue
,
of
Magnanimous
longanimity
,
and
suffering
unworthy
injuries
?
And
sure
,
next
to
this
un-imitable
pattern
of
the
Almighties
,
which
we
have
seen
,
that
of
our
first
great
Master
Moses
,
is
most
considerable
,
whose
steps
,
in
this
too
,
our
most
pious
second
,
has
so
clearly
traced
,
that
they
may
be
more
truly
called
the
very
same
,
than
Parallel
:
Onely
here
's
the
difference
remaining
,
;
our
first
Moses
couragiously
and
kindly
suffered
the
reproaches
,
frequent
murmurings
,
and
mutinous
distempers
of
a
company
,
of
poor
,
wandering
and
hunger-starved
Jews
,
in
a
Desart
;
and
our
glorious
second
,
has
been
ever
graciously
pleased
to
passe
by
the
more
malitious
railings
,
and
revilings
,
of
our
own
too
high-fed
,
pampered
,
inebriated
,
brutish
people
.
I
should
be
infinite
,
to
enumerate
the
infamous
abusive
libells
,
they
have
cast
out
against
his
goodness
,
with
the
particular
Calumnies
&
disgraces
,
they
have
endeavoured
to
asperse
his
Highnesses
Serene
Person
and
Government
withal
;
and
indeed
the
foulnesse
of
them
,
would
stain
through
the
cleanest
language
,
that
I
could
wrap
them
in
,
I
shall
therefore
passe
them
by
without
reciting
,
as
he
has
done
without
taking
notice
of
,
or
revenging
them
:
For
he
,
just
as
the
Royal
Prophet
David
,
did
chuse
to
bear
those
honourable
wounds
,
which
the
envenomed
tongues
of
such
as
Shimei
,
had
thrown
upon
his
reputation
,
and
so
was
to
mount
to
the
Throne
of
Saul
,
by
his
steps
of
patience
;
witnessed
in
suffering
Saul
.
So
I
will
be
bold
to
conclude
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
,
like
a
perfect
true
man
of
honour
,
did
no
more
trouble
himself
with
those
injurious
dealings
of
the
wicked
World
,
and
receiving
those
ill
returns
,
from
his
most
unfaithful
,
and
unworthy
back-biters
,
than
does
the
Sun
in
the
firmament
,
to
behold
the
Clouds
,
which
he
himself
had
drawn
,
from
the
mire
and
fens
of
the
earth
,
to
make
himself
a
Skarf
of
.
He
knew
very
well
,
that
he
should
,
as
he
could
not
choose
,
but
for
ever
have
the
upper
hand
of
them
,
and
though
they
might
darken
his
aspect
something
,
for
a
time
,
and
malitiously
hinder
themselves
from
the
enjoyment
of
his
most
excellent
vertues
;
yet
they
could
never
deprive
him
,
of
his
proper
light
,
or
other
sober
,
well-tempered
,
and
more
thankful
souls
,
from
receiving
the
favour
of
his
better
influences
;
as
we
shall
continue
to
prove
in
the
processe
of
our
succeeding
Ascents
,
and
happy
Parallels
The
tenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
most
malignantly
lookt
upon
likewise
,
Num.
16.
Num.
12.
by
some
of
the
Elders
themselves
,
and
a
dangerous
head
of
Rebellion
was
made
against
him
,
by
some
of
the
Princes
of
the
people
;
nay
,
he
was
assaulted
nearer
home
,
with
an
unnatural
sedition
in
his
own
Family
.
So
true
it
is
,
as
the
Psalmist
tells
us
,
Many
are
the
troubles
of
the
righteous
,
but
the
Lord
will
deliver
him
out
of
all
.
Now
is
our
Moses
come
to
the
Test
,
indeed
;
for
,
all
that
was
said
before
,
was
but
a
meer
flea-biting
to
this
fiery
trial
.
The
plague
of
popular
tongues
,
is
indeed
something
tollerable
;
but
the
unkind
conspiracies
of
Princes
,
and
such
as
should
be
persons
of
honour
,
and
have
better
understanding
of
their
obligations
,
cannot
but
cut
to
the
heart
of
any
Captain-General
:
yet
this
very
sad
disaster
,
befel
our
glorious
Patriarch
,
in
the
Rebellion
of
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abyram
,
Num.
16.
who
rose
up
before
Moses
,
with
two
hundred
and
fifty
more
Princes
of
the
Assembly
,
famous
in
the
Congregation
,
and
men
of
Renown
;
and
they
gathered
themselves
together
against
Moses
,
and
against
Aaron
,
and
said
unto
them
;
V.
2.
V.
3.
Ye
take
too
much
upon
you
,
seeing
that
all
of
the
Congregation
are
holy
,
every
one
of
them
,
and
the
Lord
is
also
amongst
them
;
wherefore
then
do
you
lift
up
your selves
,
above
the
Congregation
of
the
Lord
?
This
,
when
our
dear
Moses
heard
,
he
fell
on
his
face
,
to
shew
his
great
humility
,
and
replied
onely
,
You
take
too
much
upon
you
,
you
sons
of
Levi
;
speaking
onely
then
to
Korah
,
and
his
company
;
but
when
Dathan
and
Abiram
were
sent
for
,
they
tell
him
plainly
,
V.
12.
V.
13.
that
they
will
not
come
up
to
him
,
and
expostulate
the
matter
thus
by
message
with
him
,
Is
it
a
small
thing
,
that
thou
hast
brought
us
up
out
of
a
Land
,
that
floweth
with
milke
and
honey
,
to
kill
us
in
the
Wildernesse
?
but
thou
must
altogether
make
thy self
a
Prince
over
us
?
Then
Moses
,
to
shew
his
magnanimity
,
the
Text
sayes
,
was
very
wroth
,
and
said
unto
the
Lord
,
Respect
not
thou
their
offerings
,
&c.
Here
it
is
to
be
observed
,
that
Korah
was
of
the
same
Tribe
with
Moses
too
.
Nay
,
Num.
12.
yet
the
Lord
would
bring
a
nearer
trial
to
his
dear
servant
Moses
,
&
permit
his
own
right
hand
,
and
onely
helper
appointed
to
him
by
God
,
and
one
Brother
in
blood
,
to
revolt
against
him
,
and
joyn
himself
with
a
silly
woman
,
to
raise
a
sedition
against
him
,
in
his
own
Family
;
but
that
businesse
was
quickly
quasht
by
Moses
his
most
Clement
proceedings
with
them
:
by
whose
powerful
intercessions
to
the
Lord
,
Aaron
escaped
onely
with
a
bare
rebuke
,
and
Miriam
was
chastised
with
a
Leprosie
,
for
seven
dayes
.
These
must
of
necessity
be
very
heart-breaking
blows
,
to
our
poor
Patriarch
;
but
he
that
had
an
assured
safe
retreat
in
his
own
heart
,
and
the
sweet
repose
of
a
clear
and
a
quiet
conscience
,
is
no
more
moved
with
those
unkindnesses
of
kindred
,
and
unfaithfulnesses
of
friends
,
than
the
firmament
it self
,
and
serene
Empyrean
heaven
,
used
to
be
,
with
all
the
clatter
,
and
combustion
,
fury
,
and
confusion
of
the
inferiour
Orbs.
The
Parallel
.
Of
all
the
cruel
unkindnesses
in
the
World
,
there
are
none
that
pierce
so
to
the
quick
,
or
are
so
deeply
sensible
to
a
Noble
nature
,
as
those
which
it
receives
from
persons
whom
it
has
obliged
.
Indeed
,
we
find
that
those
ungrateful
returns
of
injuries
,
for
favours
received
,
do
bring
astonishment
even
to
the
gates
of
Heaven
it self
;
which
caused
the
Almighty
Father
,
to
sigh
out
those
lamentable
complaints
,
by
the
mouth
of
the
Prophet
Hieremy
:
Hieremy
.
How
comes
it
to
passe
,
that
my
beloved
hath
committed
so
many
outrages
,
so
many
misdemeanours
in
my
house
?
as
much
as
to
say
,
Have
I
then
,
O
my
beloved
,
lodged
thee
in
my
Temple
,
have
I
nourished
and
bred
thee
up
from
thy
Cradle
,
with
my
Fatherly
hand
,
and
cherisht
thee
in
my
bosome
;
now
to
betray
my
honour
,
and
thus
to
defile
the
glory
of
my
Altars
?
David
.
So
the
Royal
Prophet
tells
us
,
that
he
could
have
born
any
thing
from
an
enemy
,
or
a
stranger
;
but
from
one
that
he
trusted
,
or
from
an
intimate
familiar
,
and
bosom-friend
,
to
receive
an
injury
,
or
unworthy
return
,
was
beyond
his
power
to
bear
with
patience
:
and
the
truth
is
,
it
were
enough
to
stagger
the
greatest
Saint
:
Yet
this
was
our
first
Moses
his
miserable
condition
,
as
we
have
seen
,
and
shall
find
it
fully
parallel'd
in
our
second
.
Now
it
is
manifest
,
that
it
is
our
Heavenly
Fathers
constant
course
,
to
put
his
children
to
the
full
proof
and
exercise
of
their
vertues
,
to
instruct
them
to
the
highest
pitch
,
to
be
as
near
imitators
,
as
they
may
be
,
of
his
own
Divine
vertues
;
who
does
nothing
but
good
to
ungrateful
man
,
and
receives
nothing
but
ill
from
him
;
as
we
shewed
at
large
in
our
last
Ascent
.
And
such
trials
as
those
,
are
questionlesse
very
necessary
for
his
servants
;
for
it
is
undoubted
,
that
his
most
practised
servants
,
a
very
Moses
himself
,
would
putrifie
in
long
prosperities
,
as
in
a
dead
Sea
,
which
produceth
nothing
:
so
that
the
All-wise
God
,
out
of
great
kindnesse
,
to
his
most
dear
servants
,
does
sometimes
strike
such
blows
as
these
,
that
they
,
as
Jonathan
,
may
have
their
eyes
still
open
,
and
suck
in
honey
from
the
very
end
of
the
Rod
,
that
scourgeth
them
,
and
in
the
severe
chastisement
of
a
father
,
finde
the
consolation
of
true
children
.
O
what
a
goodly
Theater
,
is
a
good
conscience
!
and
what
a
beautiful
Arcenal
it
is
,
to
have
the
Armes
of
vertue
still
in
a
readinesse
,
as
our
first
and
second
Moses
have
had
against
all
essayes
?
whom
no
unkindnesse
of
unthankful
friends
,
or
conspiracies
of
ungracious
enemies
,
could
ever
startle
from
their
sweet
,
and
serene
repose
.
Now
,
that
we
may
make
good
our
Parallel
,
we
must
reflect
a
little
upon
the
barbarous
ingratitude
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
has
met
withall
,
from
Persons
of
other
obligations
,
and
Princes
too
of
our
Assembly
.
And
truly
,
who
would
not
have
thought
,
after
so
many
wonderful
Deliverances
,
by
the
hand
of
our
second
Moses
,
as
we
have
seen
,
and
the
beating
down
of
all
open
oppositions
,
to
the
destruction
of
the
common
enemy
;
but
that
our
miseries
should
have
had
an
end
,
and
our
glorious
Captain-General
some
rest
?
But
yet
I
must
say
,
with
a
sigh
,
and
to
the
eternal
exprobration
of
some
persons
,
late
in
power
,
that
we
found
no
other
,
but
aliud
ex
alio
malum
,
one
mischief
to
follow
upon
the
very
heels
of
another
.
How
many
malignant
parties
of
our
own
have
gone
about
to
disturb
that
happy
peace
,
purchased
with
the
price
of
so
much
blood
?
and
no
stone
left
unstirred
,
to
throw
us
into
a
second
,
and
a
third
,
and
(
may
be
)
into
more
confusions
,
and
greater
than
the
former
,
and
that
by
some
of
our
Elders
too
,
as
I
have
said
,
and
Princes
of
the
Assembly
?
Nay
,
our
religious
brethren
of
Scotland
too
,
must
be
set
on
foot
again
by
them
,
to
make
their
Covenant
a
stalking-horse
for
Rebellion
,
and
to
renew
a
war
in
all
probability
,
more
cruentous
and
dangerous
,
than
the
former
:
But
our
most
Renowned
second
Moses
,
being
born
upon
the
wings
of
that
Providence
,
which
never
failed
him
,
made
a
most
happy
,
and
quick
dispatch
,
of
that
work
;
putting
an
end
to
all
those
Kirk
enchantments
,
both
here
,
and
there
,
for
the
present
,
and
I
hope
for
ever
.
And
yet
after
all
this
,
that
by
the
gracious
providence
of
God
,
and
his
Highnesses
great
care
and
prudence
,
all
means
of
making
head
,
and
imbodying
themselves
again
,
was
taken
from
them
:
I
should
be
infinite
to
tell
,
how
often
those
of
that
leven
,
have
shewed
their
venemous
teeth
,
against
his
Highnesse
,
his
happy
,
and
most
godly
designs
,
to
disturb
him
again
,
and
our
peace
.
Nay
,
some
of
those
,
that
have
had
the
greatest
share
in
his
Highnesse
his
Successes
,
I
mean
,
some
of
those
Elders
,
and
Princes
,
of
the
Assembly
,
most
ungrateful
,
undutiful
persons
,
that
durst
with
the
Atlantes
of
old
,
shute
their
malitious
arrows
against
the
Sun
,
and
cast
stones
at
him
,
that
gave
them
bread
:
nay
,
some
of
them
too
,
when
they
could
not
bow
Heaven
to
their
purposes
,
would
endeavour
to
stir
up
Hell
against
him
,
confound
elements
,
and
mingle
stars
with
the
dust
of
the
earth
,
to
come
to
the
end
of
their
most
exorbitant
pretensions
:
But
the
Lord
,
who
alwayes
took
him
to
his
most
especial
care
,
set
him
so
far
above
theirs
,
and
the
Divels
malice
,
that
hurt
him
they
could
not
,
though
themselves
they
might
,
like
the
Basilisk
,
with
the
repercussion
of
their
own
poison
:
The
fagot
smoaks
onely
when
it
begins
to
burn
,
but
when
the
flame
has
once
got
the
upper
hand
,
there
will
be
then
no
smoak
at
all
.
Natural
Philosophy
informes
us
,
that
the
Rain-bow
in
the
Heavens
,
is
not
easily
to
be
form'd
at
Noon
,
in
the
heats
of
Summer
;
because
the
Sun
being
then
vigorus
in
his
altitude
,
dissipates
and
wastes
those
Clouds
:
So
our
second
Moses
,
being
mounted
,
as
he
was
,
to
the
highest
pitch
of
Heroick
vertue
,
dispelled
all
opposition
.
Malice
it self
could
neither
find
Bow
nor
Arrow
to
reach
him
;
but
burst
it self
with
its
own
venemous
intention
:
so
did
all
calumny
crack
it self
before
the
truth
of
his
vertue
,
which
darted
resplendent
flashes
into
all
eyes
.
We
know
it
's
said
of
old
,
that
felicitatis
umbra
invidia
,
There
are
no
shadows
without
light
,
nor
is
there
any
envy
without
some
gift
of
God
.
No
man
thinks
it
strange
that
Cantharides
should
fix
themselves
upon
Roses
;
it
is
certain
,
that
vermin
will
not
be
satisfied
,
but
with
the
fairest
and
the
sweetest
flowers
.
But
that
which
seems
most
strange
to
me
,
and
truly
it
is
not
a
little
admirable
,
that
men
heretofore
so
honoured
for
wisdom
,
and
good
affections
to
the
Publick
,
should
run
so
stark
mad
with
malice
,
as
to
go
about
so
extravagant
a
businesse
,
as
to
swim
against
the
stream
with
the
silly
frog
,
hoping
to
stop
the
flood
,
and
constant
current
of
the
Rhodanus
or
Danubius
;
or
with
the
foolish
fly
,
soare
up
to
Heaven
,
to
fix
her
feet
upon
,
and
stay
the
course
of
the
primum
mobile
:
but
by
this
time
,
I
believe
,
they
are
all
more
amazed
than
bridled
geese
,
and
look
as
ghastly
as
dead
men
,
four
dayes
after
their
Funerals
,
taken
from
their
graves
:
and
indeed
,
our
second
Moses
,
never
made
more
reckoning
of
such
as
those
,
than
of
so
many
angry
hens
,
that
have
indeed
the
eyes
of
dogs
,
but
the
hearts
of
hares
.
It
would
be
an
endlesse
piece
of
work
,
to
enumerate
the
infinite
plots
,
conspiracies
,
treasons
,
and
asassinats
,
contrived
and
practiced
upon
his
sacred
Person
;
but
he
securely
slept
in
the
arms
of
the
ever-waking
providence
,
and
could
not
but
be
confident
in
spite
of
all
the
malice
of
men
and
Devils
,
but
he
that
had
so
raised
him
to
,
would
still
preserve
him
in
,
his
most
illustrious
state
and
condition
.
I
shall
onely
take
leave
to
expostulate
a
little
with
those
persons
,
and
so
conclude
this
Parallel
.
Are
you
not
ashamed
yet
of
your
ingratitude
,
you
children
of
the
Scottish
Belial
?
Had
you
had
one
drop
of
true
English
blood
in
your
bodies
,
you
would
have
been
readier
to
spend
that
for
him
,
than
to
take
his
from
him
.
What
,
you
would
be
all
Kings
?
we
remember
indeed
,
too
lately
,
that
you
were
so
;
and
you
would
have
a
perpetual
seat
in
Parliament
too
,
as
you
once
thought
you
had
got
?
and
truly
,
it
is
great
pity
,
but
it
were
so
again
,
especially
being
so
good
Patriots
as
you
have
been
?
I
wonder
truly
,
that
then
you
did
not
vote
your selves
to
be
immortal
too
.
Let
any
temperate
and
knowing
man
in
England
now
be
Judge
,
whether
when
you
sate
so
,
with
all
your
power
and
splendor
about
you
,
so
loudly
proclaiming
your selves
such
Magnifical
members
,
you
did
not
stink
in
the
nostrils
of
all
the
people
?
Who
generally
lookt
upon
you
then
,
but
as
busie
Apes
upon
a
house
top
?
and
as
a
smoke
in
the
socket
of
a
greasy
candlestick
?
Bern.
lib.
1.
de
Consid.
cap.
7.
for
such
(
as
the
Learned
Bernard
tells
us
)
are
all
dignified
persons
without
merit
:
and
so
accordingly
,
his
Highnesse
sacred
wisdom
,
spied
you
out
,
and
amongst
the
rest
of
his
most
incomparable
Heroick
Actions
,
which
he
has
engraven
with
a
Pen
of
Adamant
,
to
consecrate
to
all
Posterity
,
he
then
sent
you
out
in
your
own
snuff
,
the
stench
whereof
,
is
not
yet
,
nor
will
be
,
I
believe
,
in
the
next
Age
,
extinguisht
.
Thus
we
see
,
the
Moon
may
seem
for
a
time
to
darken
the
Sun
,
when
it
is
eclipsed
;
but
yet
she
daily
renders
the
tribute
of
her
light
:
So
all
the
malice
in
the
World
,
that
has
made
a
shew
to
darken
his
Highnesse
for
some
time
,
cannot
at
all
obscure
,
but
must
encrease
his
praises
,
by
its
slanders
,
as
it
did
advance
his
repose
by
its
oppositions
,
and
augment
his
Crowns
by
his
humiliation
.
Nay
,
my
Lord
being
of
nothing
so
ambitious
,
as
to
be
like
his
Great
Master
Moses
,
has
traced
the
steps
of
that
his
great
Archetype
,
to
the
very
height
of
all
charity
,
towards
these
his
most
violent
,
and
undeserved
adversaries
,
and
all
their
Complices
.
Have
we
not
seen
him
,
like
that
his
first
Master
,
frequently
prostrating
himself
at
the
foot
of
the
Tabernacle
,
praying
,
and
almost
binding
up
the
hands
of
God
,
to
stay
the
course
of
his
vengeance
,
against
those
that
persecuted
him
even
to
the
Tabernacle
;
nay
,
would
take
into
himself
likewise
,
a
piece
of
Reverend
Aaron
for
his
Pattern
,
standing
in
the
Majesty
of
his
Priestly
habit
,
with
the
Incensory
and
Sacrifice
in
hand
,
to
appease
the
anger
of
God
against
his
persecutors
,
when
Heaven
was
all
on
fire
over
their
heads
,
and
the
Earth
became
a
devouring
gulph
under
their
feet
,
to
swallow
them
up
.
Our
most
Renowned
Lord
Protector
,
could
never
be
lesse
than
a
Moses
to
them
,
though
they
did
continue
never
so
much
to
be
a
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abiram
,
unto
him
:
So
we
shall
proceed
from
those
wretched
injuries
,
he
received
from
ungrateful
men
,
to
those
Noble
,
Princely
,
and
high
exaltations
,
that
he
alwayes
found
within
his
Mosaick
self
.
The
eleventh
Ascent
.
MOses
was
a
Person
of
a
very
high
courage
,
himself
,
and
every
way
accomplisht
with
parts
requisite
to
a
good
Souldier
;
and
he
was
no
lesse
curious
in
the
choice
of
those
whom
he
was
to
receive
to
serve
under
him
as
souldiers
.
Exod.
2.11
,
12.
For
his
own
personal
Courage
it
sufficiently
appeared
in
his
minority
,
when
he
slew
an
Egyptian
,
that
was
abusing
of
an
Hebrew
,
one
of
his
brethren
:
which
was
improved
highly
in
his
maturity
,
and
was
most
visible
,
in
his
embracing
so
many
difficulties
;
as
his
frequent
confrontings
of
Pharaoh
,
and
all
the
fury
of
the
Egyptians
,
and
over-passing
all
the
perverse
oppositions
of
his
own
people
.
He
was
no
lesse
choise
in
the
election
,
and
approbation
,
of
such
as
were
to
be
made
souldiers
;
as
is
to
be
seen
in
the
rule
that
he
gave
for
those
which
were
to
go
to
war
:
ordering
,
that
those
which
were
to
go
out
with
the
Host
against
the
enemy
,
Deut.
23.9
.
should
keep
themselves
clear
from
all
wickednesse
,
nor
so
much
as
be
stained
with
any
uncleannesse
,
&c.
The
Parallel
.
Nor
lesse
doubt
can
there
be
sure
of
the
personal
Valour
,
of
our
second
Moses
,
who
though
he
slew
no
man
,
that
ever
I
could
hear
of
,
in
any
private
quarrel
,
yet
was
known
to
be
alwayes
ready
to
draw
his
Sword
upon
a
good
occasion
.
His
Highnesse
was
never
of
the
temper
of
those
spirits
,
that
upon
the
misconstruction
of
a
word
,
or
a
cold
countenance
,
must
presently
desire
to
see
a
man
with
his
sword
in
his
hand
,
and
swear
that
they
will
evict
reparation
from
him
,
sealed
with
his
blood
.
No
,
it
cannot
be
but
an
argument
of
a
base
spirit
,
and
of
ignoble
extraction
,
to
seek
out
occasions
of
quarrelling
,
and
Duelling
;
for
by
that
sure
,
they
must
have
some
design
,
to
blot
out
some
ignominy
of
their
births
,
or
other
unworthinesse
.
Heretofore
truly
,
none
but
slaves
,
lackies
,
butchers
,
gladiators
,
or
such
kind
of
fellows
,
did
use
that
trade
of
Duells
;
but
now
forsooth
,
the
opinion
of
some
fooles
,
will
make
it
fit
for
Gentlemen
:
But
our
first
,
and
second
Moses
,
ever
had
such
pitiful
Hectors
in
extream
contempt
,
who
go
about
by
that
means
,
to
purchase
glory
out
of
vice
,
gain
hell
by
their
execrable
carriage
,
and
but
acquire
on
earth
,
the
qualities
of
a
Clown
.
They
have
taught
us
,
that
we
are
not
to
make
our
selves
like
Fierabras
,
nor
the
Knight
of
the
burning-sword
,
in
matter
of
valour
:
and
I
dare
aver
,
that
if
there
were
a
hundred
such
like
Rodomonts
,
brayed
,
and
stamped
to
powder
in
a
Morter
,
they
would
not
be
able
to
make
up
one
half
ounce
of
true
fortitude
.
Nay
,
I
have
seen
some
of
those
most
importunate
fellows
,
to
fight
Duells
,
when
they
come
to
bear
arms
in
a
good
cause
,
where
they
ought
to
shew
true
valour
,
and
an
undaunted
resolution
,
they
have
been
the
first
that
have
most
desperately
run
away
;
they
have
passed
over
hills
,
without
being
sensible
of
the
ascents
,
through
woods
,
without
seeing
of
a
tree
before
them
,
and
measured
many
miles
without
casting
one
look
behind
them
;
nay
,
sometime
whole
flocks
of
them
together
,
that
will
run
away
like
sheep
,
with
the
very
appresion
of
a
fear
,
that
the
noise
of
their
own
feet
gives
them
.
Our
first
and
second
Moses
,
were
as
little
given
to
make
discourses
of
their
own
Valour
;
Those
who
brave
it
most
in
words
,
are
most
commonly
found
most
failing
in
performance
.
When
Homer
makes
his
bravest
Captains
to
march
,
he
gives
them
alwayes
silence
for
a
guide
;
contrariwise
,
he
makes
cowards
to
babble
,
and
chatter
like
Cranes
.
The
first
passe
along
like
great
Rivers
,
letting
their
streams
glide
softly
with
a
silent
majesty
;
but
the
second
keep
a
murmuring
,
and
bubling
,
like
little
Brooks
:
Indeed
,
the
world
is
too
full
of
these
Rodomonts
,
now
called
Hectors
,
who
are
transported
with
od
,
arrogant
,
and
sudden
furies
,
like
Rabsheketh
in
Scripture
,
and
yet
will
tremble
at
the
Lancet
of
a
Surgeon
,
and
cry
out
for
a
little
pain
,
more
than
a
woman
in
Labour
:
in
short
,
the
true
sign
of
not
being
valiant
,
is
to
strive
to
seem
to
be
so
.
Our
second
Moses
was
known
to
be
none
of
all
this
Swash-buckler
brood
,
sprung
from
the
race
of
Cadmus
,
derived
from
the
teeth
of
Serpents
;
and
yet
never
more
ready
to
eat
,
than
to
fight
,
upon
a
good
occasion
,
nay
,
a
Duel
out
too
,
if
there
were
a
cause
for
it
;
that
is
,
either
in
the
Head
of
an
Army
,
by
publick
consent
,
against
some
Goliah
,
to
defend
the
honour
of
his
Nation
,
and
so
to
end
some
notable
War
,
and
stay
a
greater
effusion
of
blood
:
or
else
,
if
justly
called
to
it
,
in
his
own
,
or
any
dear
friends
vindication
;
not
upon
some
silly
Chymera
of
spirit
,
upon
the
interpretation
of
some
ambiguous
words
,
or
,
which
is
worse
,
for
the
love
of
some
unchast
woman
,
who
will
not
be
otherwise
propitiated
,
but
with
the
sacrifice
of
humane
blood
.
No
,
this
is
no
part
of
our
Mosaical
courage
:
The
men
of
this
make
,
were
always
those
that
his
Highnesse
fought
against
,
and
proved
upon
them
in
the
end
,
that
,
to
be
a
true
compleat
Christian
Souldier
,
was
not
to
become
a
braving
Cyclop
,
without
any
feeling
of
God
,
or
sense
of
Religion
,
but
such
a
one
as
his
Master
Moses
would
have
him
to
be
,
that
goes
into
the
field
;
that
is
,
clear
from
all
wickednesse
,
and
uncleannesse
:
and
so
accordingly
did
our
second
Moses
,
alwayes
make
his
sacred
choise
of
men
.
His
inspired
wisdom
,
knew
full
well
,
that
none
are
fitter
to
go
to
War
,
than
those
,
who
had
made
their
peace
with
God
,
nor
can
there
be
any
more
valourous
,
than
he
that
has
a
true
fear
of
the
Lord
before
him
:
for
first
,
such
a
mans
soul
is
a
Fort
impregnable
,
which
cannot
be
scaled
with
ladders
,
for
it
reacheth
up
to
Heaven
,
nor
be
broken
with
batteries
,
for
it
is
walled
with
brasse
,
nor
undermined
by
Pioneers
,
for
he
is
founded
upon
a
rock
,
nor
betrayed
by
treason
,
for
faith
it self
has
the
keeping
of
it
,
nor
be
burnt
with
granado's
,
for
that
can
quench
the
fiery
darts
of
the
Devil
,
nor
yet
be
forced
by
famine
,
for
a
good
conscience
is
a
continual
feast
.
It
was
not
for
nothing
then
,
that
these
two
great
souls
of
honour
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
would
not
onely
be
so
provided
themselves
,
but
have
all
that
followed
them
,
be
so
likewise
,
and
to
carry
about
them
,
the
whole
armour
of
St.
Paul
;
for
undoubtedly
there
is
nothing
so
strong
,
nothing
so
invincible
,
and
triumphant
,
as
a
valour
,
which
marcheth
bravely
under
the
Rules
of
true
Christian
Religion
:
Whatsoever
Mr.
Machiavel
would
perswade
us
,
that
Devotion
and
Piety
,
are
the
greatest
weakners
of
courage
,
and
warlike
dispositions
,
and
that
honesty
and
vertue
,
do
but
expose
a
Prince
to
dangers
;
the
truth
of
it
is
,
of
a
Prince
as
he
has
proposed
him
,
he
has
made
little
better
,
than
a
wilde
beast
,
and
yet
would
perswade
us
,
t
is
a
man
,
and
none
I
presume
,
will
believe
it
,
but
such
as
carry
their
eyes
in
their
heels
.
The
brave
Belizarius
,
sure
was
of
another
opinion
,
who
was
one
of
the
most
excellent
Captains
in
the
World
,
being
to
put
some
lewd
souldiers
to
death
,
for
some
military
crimes
,
declared
his
mind
so
freely
to
his
Army
,
in
these
Terms
,
Procop.
lib.
1.
de
Bello
Vandal
.
that
Procopius
recites
:
Know
ye
(
saith
he
)
that
I
am
come
to
fight
with
the
arms
of
Religion
,
and
Justice
,
without
which
,
we
can
expect
neither
Victory
nor
Happinesse
;
I
desire
my
Souldiers
should
have
their
hands
clean
to
kill
an
enemy
.
Never
will
I
suffer
any
man
in
my
Army
,
that
hath
fingers
crooked
or
bloody
,
were
he
in
arms
as
terrible
,
as
lightning
:
force
is
of
no
worth
,
if
it
have
not
equity
and
conscience
for
companions
.
This
now
,
methinks
,
was
spoken
like
a
Souldier
indeed
,
like
the
very
spirit
of
our
Moses
.
And
this
is
most
certain
,
that
no
man
can
loose
his
courage
,
but
he
that
never
had
it
,
and
no
man
can
have
it
,
if
that
he
beg
it
not
of
the
true
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Where
is
light
to
be
sought
for
,
but
from
the
Sun
?
or
water
,
but
in
Rivers
?
and
heat
,
but
in
Fire
?
and
where
think
you
to
find
true
Strength
,
but
in
the
God
of
the
strong
?
I
mean
,
not
that
strength
of
body
,
that
Milo
had
to
carry
a
heavy
beast
,
but
the
strength
of
soul
and
courage
,
to
carry
a
man
through
all
extremities
;
which
hath
its
root
in
reason
,
its
encrease
in
piety
,
and
its
Crown
in
true
glory
:
and
this
courage
our
second
Moses
had
to
the
full
,
and
that
I
hope
,
there
is
no
man
but
will
grant
,
is
so
far
from
being
lessened
,
that
it
is
onely
heightened
by
Religion
,
and
godliness
.
His
sacred
Highnesse
therefore
chose
for
his
Companions
in
arms
,
none
of
those
roaring
,
ranting
fellows
,
that
think
there
is
no
way
to
be
esteemed
valiant
,
but
to
dare
to
be
impious
,
to
make
the
pillars
of
heaven
,
to
tremble
with
their
blasphemies
,
and
have
nothing
of
souldiers
in
them
,
but
to
pill
,
and
ravage
,
in
their
Quarters
,
like
Harpyes
,
and
to
feed
themselves
with
humane
blood
;
and
in
a
word
,
have
but
this
one
shame
left
to
them
,
that
is
,
not
to
be
shamelesse
.
What
a
ridiculous
thing
is
it
,
in
the
mean
time
,
for
people
to
live
like
Cyclopes
,
that
they
may
be
accounted
valiant
,
and
act
the
part
of
Turks
,
to
gain
the
reputation
of
good
Christian
souldiers
?
But
here
his
Highnesse
his
pious
wisdom
,
most
eminently
,
after
the
example
of
his
Great
Master
Moses
,
has
ever
shewed
it self
,
and
made
us
to
know
such
persons
well
enough
:
his
inspired
judgement
,
could
never
be
subject
to
so
much
fallacy
,
as
to
take
chaff
for
Gold
,
hemlock
for
Parsly
,
or
an
Ape
for
a
Man
;
and
he
has
plainly
taught
,
and
proved
to
us
,
that
all
their
pretended
courage
,
is
nothing
else
but
despair
and
rage
,
boiling
in
their
passionate
breasts
,
and
counterfeiting
vertue
.
So
I
hope
we
shall
have
no
more
such
false
spectacles
clapt
over
our
eyes
,
by
that
spirit
of
lyes
forged
in
the
shop
of
Hell
,
to
make
us
take
that
glass
for
Diamond
,
and
those
Kestrells
for
Faulcons
;
indeed
,
fitter
for
Stallions
,
than
War-horses
;
all
their
courage
is
nothing
but
a
boiling
fury
in
their
hearts
,
like
to
that
of
some
Lunaticks
,
or
possest
with
an
evil
spirit
,
which
makes
very
children
,
and
women
,
to
be
sometimes
stronger
,
than
many
men
;
But
such
as
these
,
were
none
of
our
second
Moses
his
election
;
for
he
being
to
go
on
God
Almighties
errand
,
would
have
no
associats
,
but
such
as
the
Lord
should
approve
of
,
and
were
free
from
all
manner
of
uncleannesse
,
as
that
Great
Master
of
War
,
and
his
incomparable
President
,
both
prescribed
,
and
practised
.
The
twelfth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
well
entered
into
years
,
but
retained
a
strong
sense
still
and
understanding
,
before
he
was
called
out
upon
Publick
Employment
;
he
was
a
most
vigilant
,
faithful
,
and
skilful
Officer
in
the
field
:
For
his
age
,
we
find
it
was
not
over-great
,
considering
how
men
lived
about
that
time
,
but
his
vigour
was
very
extraordinary
;
for
the
Text
tells
us
,
that
he
was
a
hundred
and
twenty
years
old
when
he
died
,
Deut.
34.7
.
yet
his
eye
was
not
dim
,
nor
his
natural
force
abated
.
Now
by
all
the
computations
of
Chronologers
,
he
was
above
fourscore
years
old
,
when
he
was
called
out
upon
this
great
Action
,
of
Delivering
the
Lords
own
people
out
of
bondage
,
and
by
consequence
,
he
must
have
been
then
,
of
a
much
more
vigorous
constitution
,
than
afterwards
:
For
his
vigilancy
,
there
is
none
sure
will
doubt
,
Exod.
Levit.
that
pleaseth
to
peruse
the
sacred
Text
,
where
he
is
to
be
found
alwayes
watching
,
and
praying
for
his
people
,
and
either
pleading
something
for
them
to
God
,
or
for
God
to
them
;
for
his
care
and
fidelity
,
the
Lords
own
acknowledgement
likewise
may
serve
turn
,
who
has
expressely
testified
of
him
,
Num.
12.7
.
that
he
was
faithful
in
all
his
house
.
The
Parallel
.
By
equal
calculation
of
our
Modern
Naturalists
,
as
well
as
Chronologers
,
we
do
finde
,
that
God
indulg'd
double
the
life
to
men
,
before
the
Flood
,
to
that
he
has
done
since
the
very
next
Age
after
;
and
yet
to
them
too
,
vouchsafed
twice
so
much
time
of
living
,
as
he
has
done
to
us
:
So
that
if
those
great
Secretaries
of
Nature
,
and
Antiquity
do
not
deceive
us
,
our
second
Moses
,
his
forty
years
and
upwards
,
may
appear
parallel
to
the
former's
fourscore
,
at
,
or
about
,
which
times
,
they
both
were
prest
forth
into
Publick
employment
.
By
which
we
may
observe
,
How
the
Lord
is
pleased
to
honour
a
well-seasoned
age
;
for
,
as
the
late
Learned
Philosopher
tells
us
,
Fred.
de
Marsel
.
Prudentiae
mater
,
&
adjutrix
est
experientia
,
quam
aetate
provectiores
,
multorum
observato
curriculo
temporum
,
negotiorum
,
exemplorum
,
comprobatam
magis
habere
possunt
:
quippe
quam
dies
dat
,
qui
ut
posterior
prioris
fit
discipulus
,
&
seris
venit
usus
ab
annis
.
The
Mother
and
Nurse
of
Prudence
,
is
experience
,
which
the
more
ancient
,
by
the
observation
of
a
larger
course
of
times
,
practices
of
businesses
,
and
presidents
,
must
of
necessity
,
have
in
a
greater
proportion
;
This
skill
,
dayes
,
are
commonly
the
Donors
of
;
for
we
find
the
following
day
is
still
the
Scholler
of
the
former
,
and
as
the
Poet
tells
us
,
True
experience
is
not
got
without
processe
of
time
.
Thus
we
find
the
best
incense
alwayes
comes
from
old
Trees
,
and
Torches
,
made
of
Aromatick
wood
,
cast
out
their
best
,
and
most
odoriferous
exhalations
,
when
they
are
almost
wasted
.
O
that
I
had
never
said
that
word
,
my
tongue
falters
to
speak
,
my
pen
is
palsie-strook
to
write
,
and
my
heart
trembles
to
think
,
that
our
second
Moses
,
his
dayes
were
so
soon
to
have
an
end
;
for
we
had
no
temporal
good
thing
more
to
pray
for
,
in
order
to
the
State
,
or
our selves
,
but
that
the
blessednesse
we
enjoyed
under
his
late
Highnesse
,
might
be
eternal
,
and
that
we
might
perpetually
live
and
flourish
under
the
comfortable
and
pleasant
shadow
of
his
Palms
;
but
we
have
too
lately
seen
,
that
he
,
as
a
Moses
,
is
gone
as
he
came
,
and
left
us
nothing
,
but
our
own
peace
,
and
his
precious
memory
behind
him
.
But
I
must
passe
by
this
passion
,
lest
it
make
me
guilty
of
too
great
a
digression
,
it
being
a
discourse
more
proper
for
the
close
of
our
Parallels
.
And
indeed
,
however
we
finde
our
second
Moses
Parallel
to
the
first
for
number
of
years
,
That
I
cannot
so
certainly
determine
,
as
I
can
for
the
vigour
of
his
soul
,
and
acutenesse
of
his
sense
,
no
one
of
which
,
to
the
very
last
Scene
of
his
life
,
was
any
whit
dulled
or
diminished
,
more
than
the
eye
of
his
Great
Master
Moses
was
;
an
extraordinary
blessing
doubtlesse
,
vouchsafed
by
the
Divine
goodnesse
,
to
his
dear
servants
,
to
get
youth
by
years
,
and
beauty
it self
by
time
;
as
we
have
seen
perfectly
proved
,
in
the
person
of
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
as
has
been
recorded
of
that
our
first
Great
Patriarch
his
Prototype
.
Then
for
his
great
diligence
,
fidelity
,
care
,
and
skill
,
in
discharging
all
Trusts
committed
to
his
Charge
,
no
man
can
at
all
dispute
,
that
has
either
seen
,
or
heard
,
of
the
indefatigable
labours
of
his
Life
.
His
Highnesse
knew
that
idlenesse
was
a
meer
moth
of
Noble
mindes
,
and
iron
it self
sure
,
if
it
had
the
reason
to
discourse
,
understanding
to
chuse
its
one
commodity
,
would
cry
out
to
us
,
that
it
better
loved
to
be
kept
in
constant
use
,
and
exercise
,
than
to
lie
rusting
,
and
consuming
in
the
corner
of
a
horse
:
Wherefore
we
see
,
that
God
does
not
ordinarily
entertain
great
souls
,
in
the
pleasures
of
an
idle
life
,
but
in
the
rigid
exercises
of
vertue
;
for
we
know
that
there
are
many
most
excellent
fishes
that
will
die
in
standing
waters
,
and
are
delighted
in
the
most
bubbling
sluces
,
and
turbulent
seas
,
and
rivers
;
and
the
best
birds
,
will
alwayes
be
abroad
in
the
most
troubled
air
.
Our
glorious
Eagle
therefore
,
was
alwayes
seeking
out
for
action
,
and
never
to
be
found
lazing
,
or
beating
of
his
wings
in
the
lower
Regiment
of
the
air
,
but
soaring
alwayes
aloft
,
amongst
the
furies
of
Lightnings
,
Tempests
,
and
Whirle-winds
,
playing
with
Thunder-claps
and
ever
having
his
eye
,
where
the
day
was
to
break
.
His
painful
vigilancies
were
so
great
in
Court
,
as
well
as
Camp
,
City
,
and
Field
,
that
we
may
say
of
him
,
as
was
once
of
the
Great
Constantine
,
Plin.
Tam
assiduus
in
actione
sua
constitit
,
ut
vel
labore
refici
ac
reparari
videretur
,
He
was
so
conversant
in
action
,
that
it
seemed
to
be
nothing
,
but
his
continual
recreation
,
Gaudent
siquidem
,
saith
the
same
Author
,
divina
perpetuo
motu
,
&
jugi
agitatione
se
vegetat
aeternitas
,
His
constitution
was
so
strenuous
,
that
it
must
needs
have
been
akin
,
to
those
celestial
bodies
,
that
refresh
themselves
with
their
own
motion
,
and
perpetual
agitation
.
So
true
it
is
,
Seneca
.
what
Seneca
tells
us
,
Contempta
res
est
home
,
nisi
supra
humana
se
erexit
;
A
man
is
a
very
pitiful
,
vile
,
and
contemptible
thing
,
unlesse
he
be
ambitious
to
raise
himself
above
all
the
ordinary
courses
of
the
World
:
but
that
saying
is
to
be
verified
in
no
sort
of
men
so
much
,
as
the
Noble
Souldier
,
whose
honour
depending
upon
the
most
superlative
degree
of
vertue
,
must
seek
out
,
and
pursue
,
wayes
beyond
all
equality
:
and
such
a
person
,
is
sure
of
attaining
his
end
;
for
Polyaenus
has
assured
him
,
Polyaenus
.
that
Voluntas
ad
laborem
propensa
cuncta
vincere
&
superare
consuevit
,
A
propense
will
,
or
a
soul
prone
to
labour
,
has
been
ever
wont
to
conquer
,
and
overcome
all
difficulties
.
And
Appian
gives
the
like
encouragement
,
Appian
.
de
bell
.
Hispan
.
when
he
proclaims
,
Nihil
tam
arduum
quod
industria
&
animi
fortitudine
superari
non
possit
;
Nothing
so
high
,
or
hard
,
but
is
to
be
compassed
and
overcome
by
industry
,
and
a
willing
valiant
mind
:
What
these
,
and
all
the
Philosophers
,
Poets
,
Orators
,
or
Historians
,
have
said
,
or
could
prescribe
,
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
has
alwayes
fully
understood
,
and
most
perfectly
practised
,
as
no
one
of
the
Army
that
has
served
under
him
,
but
must
bear
him
witnesse
;
how
present
he
would
be
upon
all
Guards
and
Watches
,
as
if
he
were
ubiquitary
;
how
incessant
in
all
his
Actions
,
and
Labours
,
as
if
he
were
impassible
;
how
alwayes
taking
order
for
,
and
moving
about
his
body
,
as
if
he
were
immortal
.
Indeed
,
this
laborious
vertue
,
which
is
no
small
one
in
an
officer
,
his
Highnesse
was
more
Master
of
,
than
any
that
I
ever
heard
,
or
read
of
:
If
any
Work
were
to
be
raised
,
his
hand
must
be
in
it
first
,
if
any
duty
to
be
done
,
his
president
must
be
still
the
foremost
;
so
by
rare
skill
mingling
the
Captain
,
and
the
common
Souldier
together
,
he
did
both
intend
the
diligence
of
others
,
from
whom
he
might
,
though
not
so
effectually
,
have
exacted
it
;
and
ease
the
burden
of
their
labour
,
by
making
himself
a
companion
and
partaker
of
their
pains
and
travel
:
But
of
this
,
and
his
other
great
pieces
of
Conduct
,
we
shall
say
more
in
our
next
Ascent
,
where
we
shall
represent
him
a
most
compleat
Captain-General
.
The
thirteenth
Ascent
.
WE
have
found
our
Moses
a
most
valiant
and
vertuous
Souldier
,
and
a
most
vigilant
,
skilful
,
and
careful
Officer
;
but
that
he
might
be
all
,
and
yet
not
fit
to
command
in
Cheif
,
and
a
shepherd
,
is
not
very
likely
to
make
a
great
General
;
fitter
he
must
be
sure
in
the
opinion
of
most
,
to
lead
his
flocks
,
than
to
conduct
an
Army
of
men
:
Yes
,
we
shall
find
him
a
most
glorious
and
accomplisht
Captain-General
,
Exod.
3.
&c.
Levit.
Num.
●eut
.
Num.
11.12
.
otherwise
he
would
never
have
been
selected
sure
by
the
Divine
Wisdom
,
to
conduct
,
and
command
,
so
great
and
troublesome
a
body
,
as
that
of
the
most
mutinous
,
perverse
,
and
rebellious
people
in
the
World
,
and
to
carry
them
in
his
bosom
,
as
a
Nurse
beareth
her
sucking
child
;
or
if
there
could
be
yet
any
danger
of
doubt
in
any
of
this
,
I
would
refer
that
doubting
person
,
to
the
whole
current
of
holy
Scripture
,
where
he
shall
find
by
the
exact
discipline
observed
in
his
Army
,
the
ordering
of
his
several
Marchings
,
and
Encampings
;
the
Election
of
his
ablest
Officers
,
as
well
as
Souldiers
,
and
the
fighting
of
his
Battels
,
his
extraordinary
and
incomparable
skill
in
Military
Conduct
.
The
Parallel
.
Good
Souldiers
get
honour
to
their
Captains
and
Officers
,
and
all
together
being
gallant
men
,
must
of
necessity
,
make
a
glorious
General
.
It
highly
concerns
him
therefore
,
who
is
to
Command
in
Cheif
,
to
let
his
prime
and
principal
care
be
placed
in
the
Election
of
his
inferiour
officers
,
as
our
first
and
second
Moses
have
so
exemplarily
done
;
for
this
is
the
first
step
of
all
Military
Conduct
,
wherein
I
am
sure
,
he
has
out-done
all
the
Generals
that
ever
were
before
him
,
unlesse
this
,
to
which
he
is
so
parallel
.
Is
it
not
plain
,
that
his
Highnesse
found
such
horrid
abuses
in
all
the
former
Armies
,
that
he
was
faine
to
new
modell
this
,
to
bring
about
those
his
great
,
and
mighty
workes
,
that
he
has
done
?
And
what
sort
of
Officers
were
they
that
he
chose
,
and
instruments
that
his
inspired
wisdom
pickt
out
,
and
fitted
for
his
purpose
?
even
such
as
his
Souldiers
were
,
before
spoken
of
,
men
of
clean
hands
,
and
purer
hearts
,
that
were
to
fight
the
Lords
Battels
.
He
rejected
ever
those
gay
gawdy
outsides
of
the
world
,
those
petit
spirits
of
the
Abyss
,
before
spoken
of
,
sprung
from
the
race
of
Cadmus
;
I
mean
those
silly
fencing
fellows
,
swaggering
swashbucklers
,
and
Hectors
aforesaid
,
who
appear
like
Comets
of
fire
and
blood
,
to
bring
murder
,
pestilence
,
and
poison
,
into
houses
;
who
(
as
I
said
)
make
the
Pillars
of
Heaven
to
tremble
with
their
blasphemies
,
&
have
nothing
else
of
souldiers
in
them
,
but
to
pill
and
ravage
in
their
Quarters
like
Harpies
,
and
feed
themselves
with
humane
blood
,
who
are
ever
readier
to
shew
their
valour
,
for
a
cold
countenance
,
an
extravagant
word
,
or
a
Caprichio
of
spirit
,
than
they
would
either
be
,
for
God
,
their
Country
,
or
the
whole
World
.
A
most
wretched
and
abominable
sort
of
men
,
that
never
think
of
,
or
look
up
to
Heaven
,
but
to
blaspheme
it
;
indeed
,
more
like
Centaurs
,
than
men
,
and
have
their
hearts
all
spotted
over
like
the
skin
of
a
Panther
.
No
,
these
were
the
pitiful
things
,
as
we
have
said
before
,
that
his
Highnesse
alwayes
fought
against
,
and
proved
in
the
end
,
that
to
be
a
true
compleat
Christian
Captain
,
or
Souldier
was
not
to
become
a
meer
Cyplop
,
without
any
feeling
of
God
,
or
sense
of
Religion
,
and
that
the
Lord
who
has
pulled
down
the
mighty
from
their
Seats
,
and
does
exalt
the
humble
and
meek
,
will
alwayes
blesse
the
endeavours
of
such
as
those
.
Poverty
therefore
may
be
said
to
resemble
the
Isle
of
Ithaca
,
which
(
as
Archesilas
tells
us
,
though
rough
and
bushy
,
failed
not
to
breed
the
bravest
men
of
Greece
;
and
has
not
our
great
Vlisses
proved
the
same
in
England
?
and
herein
his
Highnesse
has
not
onely
shewed
,
an
especial
piece
of
his
incomparable
Conduct
;
but
proved
himself
to
be
likewise
full
of
the
Divine
wisdom
,
which
hides
alwayes
its
most
precious
Treasures
under
the
bark
,
and
mantle
of
persons
,
base
,
and
abject
in
appearance
,
as
we
read
in
Scripture
,
Quae
stulta
sunt
mundi
elegit
Deus
,
God
chose
the
foolish
things
of
the
world
to
confound
the
wise
:
1
Cor.
1.
For
simple
Fishermen
,
almost
as
dumb
and
mute
as
the
very
fishes
themselves
,
are
set
apart
,
and
chosen
to
catch
in
their
Nets
Philosophers
,
Kings
,
Cities
,
Provinces
,
and
Empires
:
and
thus
in
the
old
Law
,
the
Master
Statesman
,
and
Captain
of
the
World
,
our
Patriarch
Moses
,
being
but
a
poor
stammering
Shepherd
in
shew
,
is
chosen
out
to
carry
the
Word
,
to
a
most
puissant
Monarch
,
to
shake
and
to
overturn
with
a
poor
wand
,
the
Pillars
of
his
Empire
,
to
divide
Seas
,
to
calme
Billowes
,
to
open
the
bowels
of
Rocks
,
to
command
all
the
Elements
,
and
fill
the
World
with
wonders
.
So
did
he
make
a
like
Election
of
his
Officers
,
and
Souldiers
,
and
do
the
workes
of
Gyants
,
with
the
reputed
Pygmies
of
the
world
:
I
hope
I
have
not
hitherto
undeservedly
brought
him
for
my
late
Lord
Protectors
pattern
,
d
Indeed
,
this
is
the
ordinary
custom
of
Almighty
God
,
to
keep
his
richest
Pearls
in
shells
,
and
most
precious
perfumes
in
poor
boxes
.
Men
of
this
World
,
we
know
,
do
quite
contrary
,
as
we
saw
manifestly
proved
by
the
other
party
,
where
moved
the
old
Magadepies
of
the
Church
,
and
Butter-flies
of
the
Court
,
with
some
other
great
things
,
called
Lords
,
who
because
they
had
(
it
may
be
)
a
gallant
valiant
man
forsooth
,
for
the
Grandfather
,
thought
that
they
might
,
very
securely
,
be
Cowards
,
so
spending
still
upon
the
stock
of
their
great
Antecessors
(
though
to
be
doubted
,
whether
they
were
lawfully
begot
,
or
not
)
ruined
their
own
selves
.
These
pretty
gawdy
things
,
lived
in
the
world
just
like
Snailes
,
keeping
their
glorious
houses
over
their
heads
,
and
in
their
grave
Majestick
courses
,
(
almost
as
slow
as
theirs
too
)
made
very
fine
long
silver
traces
,
but
were
nothing
else
indeed
within
,
but
meer
froth
.
They
had
alwayes
their
backs
like
Cushions
,
covered
with
Velvet
,
Sattin
,
and
what
not
,
but
their
inwards
we
see
,
were
nothing
but
hay
,
or
straw
.
They
made
a
glorious
ostent
of
leaves
to
the
World
,
and
a
fair
verdure
,
like
an
over-grown
wood
;
but
are
within
replenisht
with
nothing
but
Serpents
.
These
persons
sure
,
having
nothing
at
all
praise-worthy
in
them
,
would
dignifie
their
persons
with
apparel
,
shewing
us
plainly
,
that
they
had
like
Peacocks
,
little
heads
,
lesse
brains
,
beautiful
feathers
,
and
a
long
taile
;
which
yet
it
seems
,
by
their
strutting
about
the
streets
,
are
non
clypt
short
enough
,
with
some
of
them
,
though
in
good
time
,
I
doubt
not
but
they
will
be
.
So
I
passe
from
these
pitiful
nothings
,
(
whom
his
Highnesse
,
inspired
prudence
,
and
skilful
conduct
,
would
never
admit
to
serve
under
his
Ensignes
)
to
some
other
more
worthy
piece
of
his
Mosaical
Conduct
,
and
the
next
shall
be
the
exact
Discipline
our
second
Moses
alwayes
observed
,
which
is
indeed
,
the
very
soul
of
an
Army
,
and
without
which
,
they
would
march
,
as
the
Historian
tells
us
,
Multi
homines
,
pauci
viri
,
Many
bodies
,
but
a
few
men
,
or
indeed
,
more
like
Salvages
,
than
Christians
.
From
the
neglect
of
this
it
is
,
that
we
have
seen
in
time
of
War
,
so
many
Caniballs
in
arms
,
that
cast
nothing
but
fire
,
and
blood
from
their
throats
,
Menaces
alwayes
marching
before
them
into
Quarters
,
and
ruine
and
desolation
bringing
up
the
Reare
:
Barbarous
villains
,
that
think
because
they
have
a
sword
by
their
side
,
they
are
therefore
to
be
Masters
of
the
lives
,
and
estates
of
other
men
.
It
is
most
certain
,
great
courage
is
necessary
to
make
a
true
Martial
Discipline
be
observed
;
but
yet
it
is
to
be
done
,
as
we
see
in
this
very
Army
of
our
late
Lord
Protector
,
that
he
has
left
behind
him
,
to
be
in
truth
,
a
mirrour
of
Armies
,
and
never
yet
was
equalled
,
no
not
by
that
which
Alexander
Severus
commanded
,
as
Lampridius
relates
,
Lamprid.
all
whose
souldiers
,
marched
to
the
Persian
War
like
Senators
,
and
the
Country
Peasants
loved
them
as
their
Brothers
,
and
honoured
their
Emperour
,
as
a
god
:
Marcus
Scaurus
.
Nor
yet
by
that
which
Marcus
Scaurus
writes
of
,
whose
Regiments
encamped
round
about
a
great
Tree
laden
with
fruit
,
and
yet
the
souldiers
were
kept
in
such
order
,
as
not
to
dare
,
though
they
were
to
depart
the
next
morning
,
to
take
one
apple
from
the
Master
of
the
place
.
In
this
very
manner
,
did
our
glorious
second
Moses
alwayes
conduct
his
men
,
Vopisc
.
in
Aurel.
giving
them
that
Admirable
Lesson
,
which
the
most
pious
Emperour
Aurelian
gave
to
some
of
his
Officers
:
My
friends
,
said
he
,
if
you
will
be
Captains
,
nay
,
if
you
will
live
,
contain
your
souldiers
in
their
duties
:
I
will
not
that
a
Peasant
so
much
as
complain
,
that
he
has
been
wronged
in
the
value
of
a
chicken
,
nor
that
any
has
taken
a
grape
from
his
Vine
,
without
his
permission
.
I
will
have
an
account
of
every
grain
of
salt
,
or
drop
of
oil
,
unjustly
exacted
.
I
desire
my
souldiers
should
grow
rich
with
the
spoiles
of
enemies
,
and
not
by
the
teares
of
my
Subjects
.
I
would
have
them
carry
their
riches
on
their
swords
,
not
into
their
Hutts
,
or
Cabbins
.
I
would
have
them
chast
in
the
houses
of
their
Hosts
,
and
not
any
the
least
quarrel
or
disorder
heard
of
amongst
them
,
&c.
If
Heathens
could
teach
us
such
Lessons
of
civil
deportment
in
armes
,
what
a
shame
is
it
then
for
some
Christians
,
to
march
as
we
see
them
do
,
more
like
Scythians
and
Arabians
?
and
that
men
who
are
made
we
know
,
for
the
support
of
men
,
and
who
are
not
strong
,
but
for
the
defence
of
the
feeble
,
should
be
more
pernicious
one
to
another
,
than
Wolves
and
Beares
,
nay
,
than
fire
,
hail
,
serpents
,
inundations
,
and
famins
?
By
this
means
it
is
,
that
warfare
,
otherwise
a
most
honourable
profession
,
is
made
a
detestable
trade
,
and
the
Commanders
of
those
unruly
Armies
,
are
likely
the
first
that
suffer
by
them
,
themselves
,
and
all
the
countenancers
of
such
debaucht
doings
,
must
find
the
cup
of
Divine
anger
mingled
with
gall
,
and
the
poison
,
of
Dragons
poured
forth
upon
their
guilty
heads
.
All
this
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
alwayes
abhorred
,
and
prevented
;
for
which
reason
it
was
sure
,
that
all
the
hearts
of
the
poor
people
,
of
this
Nation
,
which
so
much
sighed
under
the
former
miscarriages
of
our
Civil
War
,
being
indeed
reduced
,
to
almost
a
perishing
condition
,
by
the
ill
conduct
of
former
Captains
,
freely
bloomed
,
and
newly
opened
themselves
,
as
Roses
,
at
the
benigne
,
gentle
,
and
yet
severe
brave
aspect
,
of
this
incomparable
person
,
our
second
Moses
,
when
he
came
into
general
Command
;
for
which
reason
it
was
sure
,
that
God
so
blest
him
in
all
his
Battels
▪
Assault
,
and
warlike
Enterprises
,
that
he
was
successeful
in
them
all
;
for
Plunderers
we
know
,
never
fight
well
,
and
besides
,
t
is
certain
,
that
the
just
God
tyes
a
secret
vertue
to
those
Standards
which
march
for
his
glory
,
and
are
not
besmeared
with
the
blood
of
innocents
.
Cic
pro
leg
.
Manil.
But
I
must
hasten
to
accomplish
our
Captain-General
,
and
,
as
Tully
tells
us
,
In
summo
Imperatore
quatuor
hae
virtutes
inesse
debent
,
scientia
rei
militaris
,
virtus
,
Authoritas
,
&
felicitas
,
There
are
requisite
to
a
General
,
these
four
qualities
,
To
have
knowledge
of
the
souldiers
trade
,
To
be
valiant
,
To
have
his
Army
in
good
awe
,
And
to
be
alwayes
followed
with
good
successe
;
of
the
three
first
requisites
,
we
have
sufficiently
discourst
already
,
so
the
last
onely
remains
to
be
produced
,
for
the
accomplishment
of
our
second
Moses
,
in
his
glorious
Captain-General-ship
:
or
else
if
we
look
upon
the
four
most
remarkable
properties
in
Julius
Caesar
,
who
was
the
Phoenix
of
all
warlike
Princes
in
those
Ages
,
we
shall
find
them
all
improved
to
the
highest
pitch
,
in
this
our
late
Great
Protector
:
Labor
in
negotio
,
fortitudo
in
periculo
,
industria
in
agendo
,
celeritas
in
conficiendo
,
Labour
about
businesse
,
invincible
valour
in
point
of
danger
,
a
thorough
industry
in
all
actions
,
and
a
quick
dispatch
in
all
expeditions
:
there
remains
none
but
the
last
of
these
four
Caesarean
properties
,
unapplyed
to
our
happy
Parallel
;
So
I
shall
endeavour
to
celebrate
those
his
glorious
dispatches
,
and
successes
,
in
our
next
most
sublime
Ascent
and
Parallel
,
that
may
concern
his
Highnesse
,
in
any
of
his
warlike
Relations
.
The
fourteenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
by
the
extraordinary
indulgence
and
favour
of
Heaven
,
attended
with
a
glorious
felicity
,
in
all
his
undertakings
.
All
his
Actions
were
Crowned
with
successe
,
and
his
Battels
with
Victory
:
All
which
is
sufficently
cleared
,
by
the
sacred
Text
,
Exod.
14.
in
his
miraculous
Deliverance
of
the
Israelites
,
and
overthrow
of
the
Egyptians
,
the
discomfiting
of
the
Amalekits
,
Num.
21.
and
defeating
of
King
Arad
,
and
his
Canaanits
,
with
Sihon
King
of
the
Amorits
,
Deut.
2.
&
3.
and
Og
the
King
of
Bashan
,
and
Conquering
in
one
pitcht
Battel
,
five
Kings
of
Midian
.
Num.
31.
So
true
likewise
is
that
piece
of
Apocrypha
,
which
tells
us
:
And
Moses
the
beloved
of
God
and
men
,
brought
he
forth
,
Eccles.
45.1
,
2
,
3.
whose
remembrance
is
blessed
;
he
made
him
like
to
the
glorious
Saints
,
and
magnified
him
by
the
fear
of
his
enemies
;
by
his
words
he
caused
the
wonders
to
cease
,
and
he
made
him
glorious
in
the
sight
of
Kings
,
&c.
The
Parallel
.
Though
it
be
very
true
,
Dio.
Halicar.
lib.
1.
what
Dionysius
Halicarnasseus
tells
us
,
that
Virtus
est
felicitatis
mensura
,
non
fortuna
,
Vertue
is
the
ell
by
which
we
are
to
measure
felicity
,
not
fortune
:
and
what
Paterculus
affirms
of
Mithridates
,
that
he
was
Vir
virtute
eximius
,
aliquando
fortunâ
,
Patere
.
semper
animo
maximus
:
So
every
vertuous
and
valiant
spirit
,
though
not
alwayes
great
by
the
favour
of
fortune
,
yet
must
be
so
in
his
own
courage
;
for
to
judge
things
onely
by
event
,
is
to
turn
the
wrong
end
of
the
book
upwards
.
Yet
it
is
as
true
,
what
the
judicious
Orator
assures
us
,
Plin.
that
Exercituum
Imperatores
,
nisi
prospero
,
&
Martiali
quodam
astro
nati
,
frrustra
fortes
strenuique
sunt
,
frustra
virtute
bellicá
instructi
;
Generals
of
Armies
,
if
not
born
under
some
happy
,
and
martial
Constellation
,
do
exercise
their
vertue
and
skill
in
Military
matters
,
to
little
or
no
purpose
;
Et
de
unius
fato
ducis
,
militum
victoria
persaepe
pendet
;
The
Valour
and
Victory
of
Souldiers
,
is
sometimes
lost
by
an
unlucky
Captain
.
It
has
been
therefore
the
practice
of
most
Princes
,
to
adopt
into
their
cheifest
Commands
,
onely
such
as
have
been
successefull
Captains
,
and
have
received
no
foile
at
all
from
fortune
.
Now
the
greatest
favourit
of
fortune
,
or
properly
speaking
,
the
dearest
Darling
of
Divine
Providence
,
that
ever
the
Christian
World
produced
,
was
this
most
excellent
person
,
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
.
His
successes
were
so
constant
,
that
we
may
say
,
he
had
struck
a
naile
in
Fortunes
wheele
,
that
she
should
never
be
able
to
turn
it
again
.
He
has
not
onely
that
Lady
for
his
Guide
,
as
some
have
boasted
to
have
her
,
or
his
companion
,
as
others
;
but
the
Lord
made
for
him
a
foot-stoole
of
Fortune
,
and
gave
him
Victory
for
his
Hand-maid
:
and
as
the
same
Orator
sayes
of
Constantine
the
Great
,
Nusquam
pedem
suum
extulit
,
quin
ubique
eum
gloria
quasi
umbra
comitata
,
sit
;
He
never
set
his
foot
forth
of
doors
,
but
glory
attended
him
as
his
shadow
;
and
what
was
said
of
the
Great
Alexander
,
likewise
might
more
truly
be
verified
in
him
,
Quod
plures
prope
victoriam
reportârit
quàm
pugnas
inierit
,
plures
urbes
ceperit
,
quàm
obsederit
,
plures
hostes
fuderit
,
quàm
noverit
:
He
gained
more
Victories
than
he
fought
Battels
,
he
reduced
more
Cities
,
than
he
beleagured
,
and
routed
more
enemies
,
than
he
ever
met
withal
.
But
now
here
,
before
I
proceed
any
further
,
I
must
be
bold
to
make
a
stand
,
and
sadly
intermix
the
water
of
my
eyes
,
with
my
sorrowful
inke
,
and
with
a
mourning
pen
,
deplore
the
madnesse
of
those
men
,
who
engaged
us
in
our
late
unnatural
Wars
.
Ah
poor
England
,
Paradise
of
the
Earth
,
Eye
of
the
World
,
Pearle
of
all
Beauties
,
How
many
times
by
the
means
of
those
infernal
spirits
,
hast
thou
seen
thy
fruitful
bosome
,
heretofore
Crowned
with
ears
of
Corn
,
and
Guilded
with
Harvests
,
all
bristled
over
with
Batalias
?
How
many
times
hast
thou
seen
,
thy
land
covered
with
Swords
,
and
thy
Seas
with
Ships
?
How
may
times
hast
thou
felt
the
arms
of
thy
children
encountering
within
thy
proper
entrails
?
How
many
times
hast
thou
seen
flames
of
brothers
hostility
flying
through
thy
fat
and
fragrant
fields
?
when
hast
thou
not
sweat
in
all
the
parts
of
thy
beautiful
body
?
when
have
not
rivers
of
blood
been
drawn
from
thy
veins
,
and
such
blood
as
would
have
cimented
the
best
Bullwarkes
for
thy
defence
against
all
forreign
enemies
whatsoever
,
and
if
well
employed
,
had
made
the
great
Enemy
of
Christendom
,
the
Turk
,
ere
this
to
tremble
at
thy
Standards
,
and
have
re-planted
again
,
the
plains
of
Palestine
?
But
all
has
been
sacrificed
to
Furies
:
But
I
forbear
,
least
that
I
lose
my self
in
my
provoked
Passion
;
and
indeed
,
I
would
willingly
passe
over
this
discourse
with
silence
,
as
over
coales
covered
with
ashes
,
were
it
not
,
that
as
it
was
fit
to
expose
massacred
bodies
to
view
,
thereby
to
cure
the
madnesse
of
the
Milesian
Maides
,
so
we
are
bound
to
discover
the
bloody
effects
of
this
unnatural
war
,
to
raise
a
horrour
in
all
good
souls
,
against
the
unhappy
causes
of
it
.
And
yet
truely
,
we
have
no
little
reason
to
rejoyce
in
those
very
sufferings
,
&
congratulate
with
our selves
,
the
blood-shed
it self
of
those
barbarous
Wars
,
if
we
could
at
no
cheaper
rate
,
have
aquired
the
enjoyment
of
those
most
inestimable
blessings
,
and
benefits
,
which
we
have
since
received
;
and
above
all
the
rest
,
the
soveraign
influence
of
that
most
precious
person
,
our
late
Lord
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
.
Thrice
blessed
England
,
in
such
a
purchase
,
though
with
so
much
cost
and
paines
.
O
happy
voice
of
Thunder
,
which
made
this
Hinde
bring
forth
so
glorious
a
birth
,
after
so
many
terrible
throws
,
and
such
direful
agitations
of
many
years
.
And
for
the
happy
close
of
all
this
,
we
may
again
remarke
another
piece
of
Heavens
especial
Providence
,
and
quiet
all
the
distempers
of
our
souls
,
with
an
humble
acknowledgement
of
that
mercy
,
and
submission
to
the
Divine
Justice
,
which
in
short
,
amounts
to
this
.
When
the
Lord
is
pleased
to
purge
a
Kingdom
,
or
Nation
,
defiled
with
sin
,
he
chooseth
alwayes
a
people
more
righteous
and
religious
than
they
were
,
it
being
forever
most
just
,
and
reasonable
,
that
they
should
enjoy
their
goods
,
who
will
have
no
share
in
their
vices
.
So
our
Moses
,
and
his
Israelites
,
pillaged
and
overthrew
the
wicked
Egyptians
;
So
Arbaces
vanquisht
the
debauched
Sardanapalus
;
Salvian
.
So
Alexander
conquered
the
effeminate
Persians
;
And
so
the
Goths
gained
the
Empire
of
Rome
,
as
holy
Salvian
,
more
at
large
illustrates
:
So
to
return
to
our
late
great
Generals
successes
,
and
dispatches
,
which
as
it
is
notorious
,
have
been
so
stupendous
,
that
the
present
spectators
of
them
,
did
take
them
,
as
aforesaid
,
more
for
visions
,
than
realities
.
The
celerity
of
his
Expeditions
was
so
great
,
a
vertue
so
much
commended
in
Julius
Caesar
,
that
he
alwayes
as
far
out-went
his
veni
,
vidi
,
vici
,
as
ever
he
did
,
the
Cunctator
Fabius
.
Jebu
,
a
man
of
an
active
spirit
,
was
employed
against
the
house
of
Ahab
,
to
bring
it
to
a
quick
confusion
;
for
God
Almighty
,
when
he
means
to
shave
clear
,
alwayes
chooseth
a
Razor
with
a
sharp
edge
,
and
never
sends
a
slug
upon
a
message
that
requires
hast
;
So
our
great
Oliver
,
we
see
when
he
came
into
General
command
,
dispatcht
more
work
in
one
year
,
than
all
the
Armies
of
England
,
had
done
in
three
,
or
four
,
before
.
This
it
was
to
have
one
of
the
Lords
own
election
to
command
over
us
,
and
so
much
according
to
his
own
heart
,
that
we
see
he
has
constantly
tyed
,
as
aforesaid
,
a
secret
vertue
to
his
Standards
,
making
winds
and
tempests
,
to
fight
under
his
Ensignes
,
opening
for
him
lands
inaccessible
,
calming
stormy
Seas
,
makeing
him
with
petit
handfuls
of
men
,
to
discomfit
huge
Royal
Armies
,
to
take
in
Towns
impregnable
,
cleave
Rocks
,
and
hew
through
Mountains
;
nay
,
to
do
the
works
of
Gyants
,
as
aforesaid
,
with
the
reputed
Pigmies
of
the
World
,
and
find
facility
in
all
that
humane
reason
conceived
impossible
;
So
that
we
may
count
more
Victories
of
his
,
than
Encounters
,
his
Palmes
being
perpetually
verdant
as
well
in
the
frozen
ice
of
Winter
,
as
in
the
scorching
heats
of
Summer
.
Nor
was
England
alone
the
Scene
of
his
great
Actions
,
but
the
very
mists
and
foggs
of
Scotland
,
as
well
as
the
woods
and
boggs
of
Ireland
,
will
all
come
in
to
attest
his
glories
;
for
the
barrennesse
of
the
one
,
nor
the
barbarisme
of
the
other
,
could
set
a
period
to
his
proceedings
,
or
give
a
foile
to
his
fortune
.
Now
to
summe
up
all
his
Souldier-like
Excellencies
;
(
for
I
must
hasten
out
of
this
large
Field
,
least
I
be
lost
in
't
)
if
we
may
by
the
most
eminent
qualities
of
inferiour
creatures
,
be
capable
to
conceive
his
matchlesse
perfections
.
The
most
exquisite
character
of
a
compleat
Captain
,
or
Man
at
Armes
,
is
by
several
Authors
delivered
to
us
thus
;
That
is
one
,
who
has
the
assault
of
the
wild
Bull
,
the
defence
of
the
wilde
Boare
,
the
flight
of
the
Wolfe
,
the
courage
of
a
Lion
,
and
the
craft
of
a
Fox
:
This
strange
composition
,
his
Highnesse
had
to
its
highest
perfection
,
as
he
has
been
sufficiently
seen
in
all
postures
;
but
above
all
,
what
a
spectacle
it
was
,
sometimes
to
behold
him
in
his
Lion-like
posture
,
and
almost
covered
over
with
blood
and
dust
,
amongst
the
ranks
of
his
afrighted
men
,
and
performing
both
the
office
of
a
great
Captain
,
and
most
Couragious
Souldier
,
and
so
by
that
means
,
restoring
a
Day
in
danger
to
be
lost
.
Then
sometimes
again
,
to
see
him
,
leading
his
well
Disciplin'd
Army
,
into
enemies
Quarters
,
and
by
his
meer
Conduct
,
conquering
vast
Armies
,
and
reducing
their
strongst
Garrisons
,
without
one
drop
of
blood
;
and
such
dry
Victories
,
were
alwayes
his
dearest
delight
:
as
indeed
they
are
alwayes
most
honourable
.
Ingens
victoriae
decus
,
citra
domesticum
sanguinem
bellanti
,
saith
Tacitus
,
The
greatest
glory
of
a
Victory
,
is
that
which
a
Captain
gaines
by
the
least
expense
of
home-bred
blood
:
And
this
was
his
Highnesse
his
constant
study
to
do
;
nay
,
his
endeavour
likewise
was
,
to
save
as
much
as
he
could
of
his
very
enemies
blood
.
He
never
sought
to
purchase
fame
,
by
such
a
cruel
vanity
,
as
Pompey
the
Great
did
,
who
building
a
Temple
to
Minerva
,
caused
to
be
engraven
over
the
Gate
of
it
,
how
he
had
taken
,
routed
,
and
slain
,
two
millions
one
hundred
fourscore
and
three
thousand
men
;
pillaged
,
and
sunk
,
eight
hundred
forty
six
Ships
:
made
desolate
one
thousand
five
hundred
thirty
eight
Cities
,
and
Towns
.
If
this
be
the
way
to
glory
,
his
late
Highnesse
sure
has
steered
a
clean
contrary
course
;
for
he
has
written
,
and
engraven
by
his
Actions
,
on
the
Gate
of
the
Temple
of
Eternity
,
the
Men
,
Ships
,
Cities
,
and
Towns
,
that
he
has
preserved
.
Haec
divina
potentia
est
,
gregatim
,
&
publicè
servare
,
Senec.
de
Clem.
l.
1.
c.
26.
saith
the
most
excellent
Seneca
;
It
is
a
piece
of
Divine
power
,
to
save
publickly
,
and
by
Troops
.
By
the
other
way
,
it
may
be
,
his
Highnesse
might
have
rendred
himself
more
remarkable
and
terrible
,
like
a
dreadful
Comet
,
by
the
ruine
of
the
World
;
but
our
glorious
Protector
,
knew
,
nothing
could
be
so
honourable
as
to
save
:
So
we
never
saw
his
Highnesse
put
up
his
sword
,
but
his
anger
too
,
ever
holding
with
Nicetus
,
Nicetus
.
that
Naturae
injuriam
facit
,
&
humanitatis
legem
violat
,
qui
ultra
victoriam
,
iracundiae
indulget
:
He
offers
an
injury
to
nature
,
and
violates
a
law
of
common
humanity
,
that
can
continue
his
anger
after
a
Victory
:
Nay
,
I
'le
be
bold
to
add
,
that
it
is
a
most
unpolitick
proceeding
likewise
;
for
which
his
Highnesse
onely
may
be
sufficient
witnesse
,
who
after
his
most
bloody
Battels
,
alwayes
Conquered
as
much
with
sweetnesse
,
as
he
had
done
before
with
the
Sword
:
which
has
been
,
under
God
,
the
most
happy
cause
,
that
after
so
fierce
and
quick
a
War
,
we
have
not
scarce
a
foot-steep
to
be
seen
of
it
,
not
a
Town
fired
,
and
very
hardly
now
,
a
man
mist
:
our
cattel
as
plentiful
as
ever
,
our
fields
no
lesse
fertil
,
and
fragrant
;
nor
yet
our
hillocks
are
lesse
filled
with
ears
of
corn
,
all
which
we
must
needs
attribute
,
to
his
Highnesse
his
pious
preservation
,
in
whose
power
it
was
,
for
our
ingratitude
,
to
have
thrown
all
into
a
deserved
desolation
:
by
which
means
,
he
has
built
himself
a
Monument
in
the
hearts
of
all
honest
people
,
in
which
he
will
live
more
honourable
a
thousand
times
,
and
so
be
represented
to
after-ages
,
than
all
the
greatest
Monarchs
of
Egypt
,
in
their
rich
Marbles
,
Pyramids
,
and
Obelisks
.
Thus
craving
pardon
for
our
too
long
insisting
upon
these
Military
excellencies
,
of
our
two
great
Generals
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
I
shall
hasten
in
our
succeeding
discourse
to
give
the
World
some
tast
likewise
of
their
most
extraordinary
State
perfections
.
The
fifteenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
a
most
absolute
great
Statesman
,
a
perfect
Master
of
the
Politick
Science
;
which
,
though
it
may
be
sufficiently
argued
,
by
all
the
advantages
which
he
had
of
breeding
within
the
Tropicks
of
Pharaohs
Court
;
Exod.
2.
so
must
of
necessity
have
suckt
in
the
very
quintessence
of
all
State
influencies
,
as
also
being
trained
up
in
all
the
Learning
of
the
Egyptians
,
Acts
7.12
.
then
the
most
knowing
people
in
the
World
,
as
we
have
already
seen
:
Yet
,
is
made
more
clear
,
by
the
Lords
own
designation
of
him
,
to
the
Civil
,
Exod.
Levit.
Num.
Deut.
as
well
as
Military
Government
,
of
his
people
,
by
his
prudent
managery
of
Affairs
,
and
by
the
most
excellent
Laws
and
Ordinances
that
he
made
for
their
Government
,
in
peace
as
well
as
war
;
which
proves
irrefragably
,
that
he
understood
how
to
command
Towns
,
as
well
as
Armies
,
and
to
conduct
Citizens
,
as
well
as
Souldiers
;
but
above
all
,
he
appeared
a
most
perfect
Polititian
,
in
sticking
close
to
the
intrests
of
God
,
not
swerving
in
the
least
from
his
Divine
Will
;
and
for
that
we
have
the
Lords
own
attestation
,
Num.
12.7
.
that
he
was
faithful
in
all
his
house
,
and
that
must
of
necessity
be
the
highest
point
of
Policy
.
The
Parallel
.
Xenoph.
l.
1.
de
instit.
Cypri
.
Ingens
sanè
,
&
arduum
opus
est
,
recte
imperare
,
saith
Xenophon
,
It
is
the
highest
,
and
the
hardest
thing
in
the
World
,
to
command
well
,
who
,
as
he
gave
us
,
Effigiem
justi
imperii
,
as
Cicero
describes
him
,
the
Portraiture
of
a
just
Empire
,
under
the
name
of
Cyrus
,
must
of
necessity
mean
,
that
of
the
Civil
,
as
well
as
Martial
Government
.
And
doubtlesse
this
Politick
vertue
,
which
is
to
constitute
a
true
,
and
excellent
Statesman
,
is
the
most
rare
,
and
sublimated
Piece
,
and
as
it
were
,
the
very
creame
,
and
most
purified
part
of
humane
wisdom
,
and
of
which
,
great
and
Noble
spirits
,
are
onely
capable
.
Tit.
Liv.
lib.
2.
Dec.
And
therefore
,
Titus
Livius
,
tells
us
,
that
Ars
quâ
civem
regant
,
(
That
art
of
Policy
,
or
good
Government
,
was
ever
more
as
honourable
,
if
not
more
,
than
that
)
Quâ
hostem
superent
,
the
art
of
War
it self
:
and
the
same
Livius
gives
the
reason
in
another
place
,
Parare
&
quaerere
arduum
,
lib.
37.
tueri
vero
difficilius
;
from
whence
the
Poet
seems
to
have
borrowed
,
O
faciles
dare
summa
Deos
,
eademque
tueri
,
Difficiles
;
Lucan
.
It
is
much
easier
to
attain
the
ends
of
high
desires
,
than
to
keep
them
being
got
;
and
better
is
the
assurance
of
seeking
,
than
of
possessing
any
thing
.
For
to
be
great
,
and
of
a
large
proportion
,
doth
not
at
all
take
away
the
casualties
of
inconveniencies
,
nor
can
any
greatnesse
give
priviledge
to
free
things
from
distemperature
;
Tall
men
,
we
see
,
are
as
subject
to
Fevers
,
as
others
of
lesse
stature
;
and
great
Empires
are
as
easily
disturbed
,
as
the
States
of
petit
Princes
.
Besides
,
an
excellent
Author
tells
us
,
Tueri
quaesita
,
difficilius
est
quàm
acquirere
,
quoniam
in
acquirendo
,
ignavia
possidentis
saepe
plus
confert
,
quam
propria
virtus
,
tueri
autem
quaesita
,
sine
propria
virtute
nemo
potest
.
It
is
harder
to
hold
,
than
to
Conquer
;
for
the
sloth
and
negligence
of
the
Possessor
,
may
more
conduce
to
the
acquiring
of
any
thing
,
than
the
vertue
of
the
Conquerour
;
but
hold
what
is
so
acquired
,
none
can
,
but
by
especial
vertue
.
Now
both
these
pieces
of
incomparable
Prudence
,
had
our
most
Renowned
Lord
Protector
,
our
second
Moses
;
and
I
dare
say
,
in
equal
proportion
with
the
former
,
he
governed
the
War
it self
,
like
a
compleat
Statesman
,
and
managed
peace
,
like
a
prudent
Captain
.
He
knew
as
well
as
Caesar
did
,
Caesar
Comment.
6.
belli
gall
.
that
Non
minus
est
Imperatoris
,
consilio
superare
,
quam
gladio
,
A
good
General
will
Conquer
more
by
his
Counsel
,
than
Sword
:
And
as
applicable
to
his
Highnesse
,
was
that
which
King
Antigonus
said
of
himself
,
That
his
warfare
,
was
rather
of
times
and
seasons
,
than
of
Armes
,
and
no
lesse
did
we
see
made
good
by
his
Highnesse
upon
all
occasions
,
what
Polybius
tells
us
,
that
the
least
things
which
are
done
in
war
,
are
those
which
are
handled
with
sword
and
violence
;
but
the
most
eminent
of
all
,
are
executed
by
the
knowledge
,
how
fitly
to
manage
an
opportunity
.
If
this
piece
of
warlike
,
as
well
as
State
prudence
,
were
ever
verified
in
any
Person
,
it
has
been
most
remarkably
made
good
in
all
our
second
Moses
his
State
dispatches
,
as
well
as
Warlike
Expeditions
:
for
had
he
not
in
the
very
nick
of
time
,
crusht
several
eggs
,
of
cursed
Cockatrices
,
that
had
been
laid
against
him
,
he
must
have
hatched
them
in
his
own
bosome
,
that
would
have
destroyed
both
him
,
and
us
.
Are
you
not
yet
ashamed
of
your
ingratitude
,
you
viperous
brood
of
Rebells
?
that
have
so
often
endeavoured
to
eat
through
the
heart
,
and
bowels
of
him
,
that
has
given
you
so
often
a
life
?
Do
you
not
know
,
that
when
one
Star
riseth
,
the
opposite
must
fall
?
Be
no
longer
like
ungrateful
Prentises
,
who
usually
when
they
are
at
liberty
,
spurne
at
their
Guides
,
and
are
not
onely
content
to
set
up
Shops
for
themselves
;
but
seek
by
all
means
they
can
,
to
discredit
their
Masters
.
By
this
time
,
methinks
,
you
should
be
sensible
,
that
you
have
too
long
opposed
your selves
,
against
his
late
Highnesse
,
most
pious
,
and
prudent
intentions
,
who
with
sword
in
one
hand
,
and
trowel
in
the
other
,
that
is
,
armes
,
and
policy
,
as
a
Statesman
,
and
a
Souldier
,
at
once
did
defend
,
and
build
the
walls
of
our
Jerusalem
.
It
is
time
for
you
sure
to
give
over
busying
your selves
about
your
Babylon
,
and
its
building
,
which
when
you
have
done
all
you
can
,
will
appear
to
be
but
like
a
City
,
which
I
have
seen
in
ancient
painting
,
built
upon
ruines
,
in
a
land
of
Quicksilver
,
cimented
with
blood
,
and
overthrown
with
frequent
Earthquakes
,
and
outragious
windes
:
You
see
by
your
own
sad
experience
,
if
you
please
to
make
use
of
it
,
that
if
the
arm
of
the
Lord
sustain
not
an
Affaire
,
the
more
advancement
it
receives
,
the
deeper
ruines
it
findes
;
and
that
all
Maxims
of
State
,
that
depend
not
on
the
Maxims
of
God
,
are
but
the
meer
effects
of
carnal
prudence
,
and
so
must
consequently
end
in
flesh
,
and
faile
like
it
:
And
all
Councils
of
State
whatsoever
,
that
depend
not
,
and
rest
themselves
upon
him
,
who
with
three
fingers
supporteth
the
Globe
of
the
Universe
,
rather
pursue
the
way
of
precipice
,
than
path
of
exaltation
;
Give
over
,
I
say
,
in
time
your
Antichristian
contentions
,
lest
you
be
found
to
fight
against
God
.
Imitate
,
now
at
last
,
this
blessed
and
most
worthy
Piece
of
our
Mosaical
wisdom
,
which
our
Great
Prototype
,
and
his
Typified
Parallel
,
have
so
closely
pursued
,
that
is
,
in
the
first
place
to
seek
the
interests
of
God
,
and
then
all
other
things
will
be
added
,
as
we
have
seen
proved
upon
both
them
,
a
constant
successe
attending
all
their
undertakings
.
On
the
other
side
,
we
finde
whatsoever
Machiavel
may
object
to
the
contrary
,
that
God
Almighty
is
pleased
,
sometimes
,
to
stupifie
the
most
practised
Statists
in
the
world
,
that
are
the
greatest
professors
too
of
Policy
,
and
Knowledge
,
and
make
them
so
drink
of
the
cup
of
errour
,
that
we
coming
afterwards
,
to
discourse
upon
their
judgements
,
find
they
have
committed
some
grosser
faults
,
in
the
governments
of
Kingdoms
,
and
Common-wealths
,
than
the
simplest
,
and
most
illiterate
Peasants
would
have
done
,
in
the
direction
of
their
own
houses
;
all
which
we
have
seen
most
particularly
made
good
upon
the
late
King
and
his
Counsellours
,
and
to
be
foretold
likewise
by
the
Spirit
of
God
himself
,
dictating
to
the
person
of
the
Prophet
Isaiah
,
who
speaking
of
the
wicked
Counsellours
of
Pharaoh
,
Isa.
19.
sayes
,
The
Princes
of
Tanais
,
are
become
fooles
,
the
Princes
of
Memphis
are
withered
away
,
they
have
deceived
Egypt
with
all
the
strength
,
and
beauty
of
her
people
:
God
hath
sent
amongst
them
,
the
spirit
of
giddinesse
,
and
made
them
reel
up
and
down
,
in
all
their
actions
,
like
drunken
men
.
Job
.
12.
No
lesse
doth
holy
Job
tell
us
,
in
these
terms
;
God
suffereth
the
wise
Counsellours
to
fall
into
the
hazards
of
senselesse
men
;
God
makes
the
Judges
stupid
,
takes
away
the
sword
and
belt
from
Kings
,
to
engird
their
reines
with
a
cord
;
God
maketh
the
Priests
to
appear
infamous
,
supplanteth
the
principal
of
the
people
,
changeth
the
lips
of
truth
speakers
,
takes
away
the
doctrine
of
old
men
,
and
poureth
out
contempt
upon
Princes
,
&c.
There
is
no
man
,
that
has
either
been
Actor
,
or
Spectator
,
in
our
troubles
,
but
will
take
,
I
presume
,
those
Scriptures
,
to
be
directly
pointed
at
our
times
,
and
to
be
an
exact
prophesie
,
of
part
of
our
late
Wars
:
so
will
neither
require
any
more
comment
,
application
,
or
parallel
.
It
is
a
most
certain
truth
,
and
that
his
late
Highnesse
knew
full
well
,
and
as
frequently
declared
,
that
no
wisdom
or
policy
,
meerly
humane
,
can
be
perfect
:
such
as
forsake
God
,
in
the
curiosities
of
their
Counsells
,
shall
be
forsaken
by
him
,
and
shall
finde
each
where
,
a
long
web
of
perplexities
,
and
a
rowling
wheel
of
immortal
troubles
.
When
a
man
goes
on
in
the
right
way
,
he
is
probable
to
finde
an
end
,
but
if
he
wander
acrosse
the
fields
,
he
makes
steps
without
number
,
runs
into
errours
without
measure
,
and
falls
into
miseries
without
remedy
.
Let
all
the
Politicians
of
the
World
take
example
by
our
second
Moses
,
and
take
into
their
serious
consideration
,
as
his
Highnesse
did
,
that
the
greatnesse
of
a
Statesman
,
consists
not
in
treasuring
up
the
Common-wealth
of
Plato
,
and
Xenophon
,
in
his
imagination
,
nor
in
amassing
together
a
huge
heape
of
politick
Precepts
,
nor
in
being
acquainted
with
all
the
Cabales
,
and
Mysteries
of
the
World
,
nor
in
the
profession
of
great
subtilties
,
and
stratagems
;
for
we
have
seen
by
the
experience
of
all
Ages
,
that
in
affairs
,
there
is
a
certain
stroak
of
the
Divine
Providence
,
which
dazleth
all
the
worldly
wise
,
disarmes
the
strong
,
and
blindeth
all
the
most
Politick
,
with
their
own
lights
:
for
swimming
up
and
down
,
as
they
do
,
in
the
vast
Ocean
of
businesse
,
and
the
infinities
of
reasons
of
their
proper
inventions
,
they
resemble
bodies
over-charged
with
abundance
of
blood
,
who
through
that
great
and
extravagant
excesse
,
finde
death
,
in
the
very
treasure
of
life
.
Then
seeking
to
withdraw
themselves
,
from
the
road
of
common
understandings
,
they
figure
to
themselves
strange
subtilties
,
and
chymera's
,
which
are
but
as
the
Towers
of
the
Lamiae
,
that
Tertullian
speakes
of
,
which
no
wise
man
did
ever
really
believe
,
or
will
;
which
is
the
true
cause
that
their
spirits
floating
still
in
such
a
great
tyde
of
thoughts
,
seldom
meet
with
a
happy
dispatch
of
affairs
.
Not
unlike
the
Sun
,
that
sometimes
draws
up
such
a
great
quantity
of
vapours
,
that
he
cannot
dissipate
;
so
these
undertaking
Politicians
,
do
but
lay
up
together
,
a
vast
lump
of
businesse
in
their
braines
,
which
their
judgements
can
never
dissolve
into
any
successeful
expedition
.
He
that
will
take
the
pains
to
read
the
lives
of
Otho
,
Vitellius
,
Galba
,
Piso
,
Balbinus
,
Florianus
,
Basilius
,
Silvianus
,
Tacitus
,
Quintilius
,
Maximus
,
and
Michael
Colophates
:
or
behold
the
falls
of
Parmenio
,
under
Alexander
,
Sejanus
under
Tiberius
,
Cleander
under
Commodus
,
Ablavius
under
Constantine
,
Eutropius
under
Arcadius
,
Vignius
under
Frederick
,
Brocas
under
Philip
,
Cabreca
under
Peter
,
and
others
of
the
like
kind
,
must
find
,
or
be
wholly
insensible
,
that
to
raise
a
State
,
and
build
Fortune
,
as
well
as
to
conserve
it
,
we
are
to
proceed
,
as
his
late
Highnesse
did
,
securely
therein
,
with
a
principal
eye
upon
the
Maxims
of
Faith
,
Religion
,
and
Honesty
,
unlesse
that
we
will
expect
,
in
the
course
of
an
uncertain
life
,
a
most
certain
ruin
.
It
will
manifestly
,
I
say
,
appear
,
out
of
all
Histories
,
as
well
sacred
as
prophane
,
how
(
contrary
to
Machiavillian
doctrine
)
all
they
,
who
disunited
from
the
Eternal
Wisdom
,
thought
to
play
the
Politicks
and
prosper
in
Governments
,
Honours
,
and
worldly
Affairs
,
have
proved
but
as
so
many
Icarus's
,
that
counterfeit
birds
,
with
waxen
wings
,
with
which
they
may
soare
aloft
indeed
,
for
some
little
time
;
but
the
least
ray
proceeding
from
the
Throne
of
the
Lamb
,
will
sure
dissolve
them
to
nothing
,
and
make
their
heights
,
which
they
so
foolishly
flye
at
,
serve
them
for
no
other
use
,
but
to
render
their
falls
,
the
more
remarkable
.
I
shall
now
onely
adde
,
for
the
further
confusion
of
all
Machiavillians
,
and
satisfaction
of
good
men
,
one
excellent
observation
,
out
of
Paulus
Orosius
,
who
,
in
his
Book
of
History
,
Paulus
Orosius
,
lib.
1.
cap.
18.
dedicated
to
the
great
Augustin
,
remarkes
,
that
the
very
tracks
of
our
proud
and
politick
Pharaohs
Chariots
,
after
his
most
detestable
death
,
and
the
destruction
of
his
whole
Army
,
remained
a
long
time
,
on
the
sands
of
the
Red
Sea
,
to
be
a
preaching
example
to
all
Posterity
,
to
inform
them
,
how
dangerous
a
thing
it
is
,
to
go
about
,
as
he
did
,
by
any
State-tricks
,
and
devilish
subtilties
,
to
fight
against
God
.
Let
then
our
Master
Machiavillians
,
march
on
still
,
if
they
think
fit
,
amongst
so
many
shelves
,
and
precipices
,
not
so
much
as
once
opening
their
eyes
to
behold
the
Abysse
,
they
have
under
their
feet
:
So
many
heads
crusht
in
pieces
,
under
the
Dvine
vengeance
,
which
lie
like
broken
masts
,
and
shivers
of
a
shipwrack
,
advanced
upon
the
promontories
of
Rocks
,
to
give
notice
of
their
deplorable
events
,
whose
steps
they
still
pursue
.
Let
them
look
on
still
,
I
say
,
with
arms
acrosse
,
and
dally
with
those
dangers
,
like
wanton
Victims
,
that
leape
and
skip
,
between
the
ax
and
the
knife
,
whilst
we
the
happy
people
of
England
,
and
all
good
Christians
,
shall
fully
satisfie
our selves
,
in
following
the
examples
of
our
two
Mosaical
Masters
,
who
used
no
other
line
of
Policy
,
but
such
as
they
derived
from
Heaven
,
alwayes
managing
their
great
Charges
,
and
Government
of
others
,
by
their
own
duties
,
and
obedience
to
Almighty
God
:
and
that
is
the
highest
point
of
State-Wisdom
,
which
our
second
Moses
had
in
its
perfection
:
As
we
shall
see
more
in
the
21.
Ascent
.
The
sixteenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
most
faithful
,
and
careful
,
in
providing
able
and
honest
Officers
for
the
Civil
Government
,
Exod.
18.14
.
as
well
Ministers
of
State
,
as
Justice
.
For
his
father-in
law
Jethro
,
coming
to
see
him
,
and
finding
him
to
sit
alone
,
to
Judge
the
people
,
which
stood
about
him
from
the
morning
until
evening
,
was
much
troubled
at
it
,
and
gave
him
a
true
fatherly
counsel
indeed
;
which
was
to
divide
the
burden
of
the
Government
,
between
some
sufficient
persons
,
amongst
the
people
,
Ver.
19.
that
were
accomplisht
for
so
great
a
work
:
So
Moses
chose
out
Men
of
Courage
,
fearing
God
,
men
dealing
truly
,
hating
covetousnesse
,
Ver.
22.
and
appointed
them
to
be
Rulers
over
Thousands
,
and
over
Hundreds
,
and
over
Fifties
,
and
over
Tens
.
Then
upon
those
whom
he
appointed
Judges
,
he
presseth
the
point
of
incorruption
,
thus
;
Wrest
not
the
Law
,
nor
respect
any
person
,
neither
take
reward
;
Deut.
16.19
.
for
reward
blindeth
the
eyes
of
the
wise
,
and
perverteth
the
words
of
the
just
:
That
which
is
just
and
right
shalt
thou
follow
,
that
thou
mayst
live
,
and
possesse
the
Land
,
which
the
Lord
thy
God
giveth
thee
.
So
our
Moses
cannot
but
be
acknowledged
as
careful
a
Father
of
his
people
,
as
he
was
a
faithful
Deliverer
,
and
glorious
Conductor
,
or
Captain-General
.
The
Parallel
.
This
was
a
Noble
Ascent
indeed
,
and
not
onely
becoming
a
man
of
State
,
but
so
highly
necessary
,
that
our
Master
Moses
himself
,
stood
in
need
of
an
Admonitor
to
it
,
and
probably
had
not
mounted
it
,
but
by
the
sage
advice
of
his
good
father-in-law
Jethro
,
as
we
have
seen
in
the
Ascent
:
which
as
in
all
the
rest
,
our
second
Moses
,
his
late
Highnesse
,
has
so
exactly
pattern'd
,
that
he
is
to
be
drawn
into
example
by
all
succeeding
Princes
,
and
his
prudence
to
be
adored
by
all
Posterity
,
as
well
as
the
present
Age
,
There
is
none
,
I
believe
,
will
doubt
,
but
that
it
is
a
Soveraign
and
Supreme
Piece
of
Politick
vertue
,
to
make
diligent
search
,
and
inquiry
into
the
abilities
,
and
integrities
,
of
all
such
as
are
to
be
employed
,
as
Ministers
of
State
,
or
Justice
;
and
this
,
I
say
,
concerns
not
onely
the
Chief
,
but
all
inferiour
Magistrates
;
for
let
the
person
in
government
be
never
so
great
,
and
absolute
a
Master
in
all
State
matters
himself
,
if
he
be
disserved
by
those
,
whom
he
does
employ
,
his
vertues
will
be
but
betrayed
by
the
crimes
of
others
,
and
expose
the
people
to
multiplied
injuries
.
This
point
therefore
of
Politick
prudence
,
in
a
Prince
,
is
much
beyond
any
other
personal
perfections
,
Tho.
Aquin.
2.2
.
q.
58.
that
may
be
called
accomplishments
in
a
Statesman
,
as
the
Learned
Aquinas
tells
us
,
and
gives
the
reason
,
Quia
bonum
commune
praeeminet
omni
bono
singulari
;
This
politick
vertue
exceeds
all
others
,
as
much
as
the
publick
good
surpasseth
any
particular
;
for
he
that
it
contented
to
draw
himself
within
the
guard
of
his
own
vertues
onely
,
and
neglect
the
looking
into
the
manners
of
others
,
that
are
to
be
his
instruments
of
State
,
will
of
necessity
be
ensnared
in
his
own
goodnesse
,
and
will
signifie
no
more
to
the
publick
benefit
,
than
those
foolish
Musicians
,
that
made
all
their
harmony
within
themselves
,
and
were
content
to
see
all
the
World
besides
out
of
Tune
.
This
horrid
negligence
,
has
made
many
good
Kings
odious
to
their
Subjects
,
and
though
excellent
persons
in
themselves
,
yet
tamely
suffering
themselves
to
be
lead
by
their
Favourites
,
have
fallen
not
onely
into
the
reputation
,
but
ruin
of
Tyrants
,
and
stink
still
in
the
nostrils
of
the
people
.
Some
great
Secretaries
of
Nature
,
as
Theophrastus
de
Plantis
,
and
that
excellent
Naturalist
,
Joannes
Roellus
,
Theoph.
de
Plantis
.
Jo.
Roellins
.
assure
us
,
That
there
is
a
very
goodly
,
and
profitable
Plant
,
called
Affodil
,
or
Scepter-Royal
,
which
breeds
very
bad
little
worms
about
it
,
that
gnaw
out
the
very
heart
,
and
perish
the
whole
,
substance
of
it
,
hiding
themselves
under
the
leaves
,
and
shadow
of
it
,
till
such
time
,
that
getting
wing
,
they
become
a
kind
of
Butter-flie
,
all
speckled
over
with
gay
flowers
,
and
brave
it
over
men
in
the
air
,
whom
they
durst
hardly
not
long
before
,
behold
upon
the
earth
.
Just
so
,
do
carelesse
Kings
and
Princes
,
like
this
pitiful
,
though
Rbyal
Plant
,
cover
under
their
fair
verdure
,
creatures
which
gnaw
like
worms
in
the
beginning
,
upon
the
substance
of
their
Master
,
and
afterwards
frame
themselves
wings
,
all
enamell'd
with
glory
,
at
the
charge
of
the
Publick
,
to
take
their
flights
over
the
heads
of
so
many
Mortals
,
whom
they
look
upon
as
scornfully
as
if
they
had
forgot
the
earth
that
bore
them
;
but
sometime
,
they
meet
with
a
fall
,
proportionable
to
their
flight
,
and
their
Royal
Masters
and
Makers
,
are
alwayes
involved
in
inevitable
ruin
.
Our
first
,
and
second
Moses
,
we
see
,
full-well
understood
that
danger
,
and
have
taken
course
accordingly
,
to
prevent
it
,
by
employing
none
in
Publick
Charges
,
but
men
of
piety
,
as
well
as
parts
,
known
integrity
,
as
well
as
ability
;
knowing
nothing
to
be
so
perillous
to
Princely
greatnesse
,
as
wicked
Ministers
,
and
that
good
Officers
,
must
make
great
Statesmen
,
as
well
as
Captain-Generals
.
Has
not
,
I
say
,
our
second
Moses
,
made
out
his
Parallel
in
this
,
to
its
perfection
?
Was
there
ever
such
a
choice
,
since
that
of
the
first
Moses
,
as
he
has
made
of
men
of
Courage
,
fearing
God
,
dealing
truly
,
and
hating
covetousnesse
,
whom
he
has
adopted
into
all
the
Offices
about
his
Person
,
Estate
,
Army
,
or
Justice
?
Look
back
upon
his
Highnesse
sitting
in
his
Family
,
and
then
,
how
can
you
but
phansie
,
the
beautiful
Rose
surrounded
with
the
fair
attendance
of
its
elegant
leaves
,
all
in
a
Livery
?
Consider
him
in
his
Council
,
what
can
you
say
lesse
of
him
,
than
that
he
was
a
Princely
Palme
,
encompast
with
most
stately
Cedars
,
and
but
reflect
upon
him
,
in
his
warlike
equipage
,
and
with
his
Martial
men
about
him
;
he
will
then
shine
forth
like
the
Sun
,
when
glorified
with
his
most
illustrious
rayes
.
And
last
of
all
,
if
we
but
look
upon
him
in
his
power
representative
,
and
Courts
of
Judicature
,
there
is
not
a
Poet
sure
,
but
would
say
,
that
his
Highnesse
had
Courted
,
Reconciled
,
and
Reduced
,
Astraea
to
the
earth
again
.
Philostratus
tells
us
,
in
Vita
Herodis
Attici
,
Philost
.
in
vita
Herod
.
Att.
how
that
Athenian
Herod
,
appointed
four
and
twenty
Pages
for
his
son
,
every
one
of
whom
,
bore
the
Title
of
a
Greek
letter
,
which
was
written
on
their
breasts
,
that
so
he
might
soon
learn
his
Alphabet
,
by
onely
calling
of
his
servants
.
But
our
Princely
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
would
have
all
his
Officers
,
and
Instruments
about
him
,
to
appear
to
his
people
,
like
those
ancient
Statues
of
Polycletes
,
Phydias
,
and
Sisippus
,
of
which
there
was
not
a
Lineament
,
but
was
said
to
speak
.
But
I
am
too
general
in
the
application
of
this
Parallel
,
and
may
be
pardoned
,
I
hope
,
if
I
shall
reduce
it
nearer
home
,
by
particulars
:
though
I
am
sure
to
incur
the
censure
of
flattery
,
for
it
amongst
fools
:
And
I
le
begin
,
with
his
chief
Minister
,
or
Secretary
of
State
,
the
intelligence
of
his
Counsels
,
and
as
it
were
,
the
Angel-Guardian
of
his
Government
,
who
was
so
present
with
his
great
Master
,
our
second
Moses
,
in
all
his
actions
,
counsells
,
interests
,
and
designs
,
as
certain
flowers
are
said
to
wait
on
the
Sun
,
and
penetrated
to
the
very
Center
of
his
great
Soul
;
so
could
not
but
contract
many
of
his
most
Mosaical
perfections
:
He
is
certainly
known
to
be
,
what
his
name
renders
him
by
Anagramm
,
a
True
Holy
one
,
that
is
,
a
Statesman
after
Moses
his
manner
:
viz.
fearing
God
,
and
dealing
truly
,
&c.
a
person
of
most
incomparable
piety
and
parts
;
Prudent
as
a
Serpent
,
and
yet
pure
as
a
Seraphim
,
vertues
so
rare
in
a
Statesman
,
that
we
may
justly
call
him
,
the
true
holy
Phoenix
Polititian
of
the
Age.
I
have
not
time
,
nor
paper
to
insist
so
particularly
,
upon
every
one
of
his
Highnesse
most
honourable
Privy
Council
;
but
this
I
can
affirm
,
that
never
was
a
more
compleat
body
of
Council
,
or
more
exquisite
composition
,
of
so
many
excellent
Tempers
together
in
the
World
;
insomuch
,
that
we
see
notoriously
in
every
dayes
dispatches
,
how
they
are
that
perfectly
,
what
the
old
Historian
Velleius
sayes
of
Sejanus
flatteringly
,
That
he
was
,
Actu
otiosis
simillimus
,
(
in
earnest
,
a
most
excellent
character
,
howsoever
of
a
Statesman
)
that
he
seemed
in
the
middest
of
his
greatst
employments
,
as
if
he
were
idle
.
My
Lords
likewise
of
his
Highnesse
Council
,
are
so
exactly
knowing
in
affairs
,
that
it
was
never
heard
,
that
any
of
those
six
common
obstacles
,
did
ever
obstruct
their
dispatches
,
which
are
,
disorder
,
confusion
,
passion
,
sollicitude
,
irresolution
,
and
precipitation
,
so
they
have
done
all
things
warily
,
fully
,
and
peaceably
,
without
shewing
the
least
anxiety
.
They
have
by
their
great
piety
and
prudence
,
kept
this
State
so
well
united
within
the
bands
of
concord
,
and
charity
,
that
it
cannot
but
appear
to
forreigners
themselves
,
as
it
were
a
little
Temple
of
Peace
,
though
in
the
very
heat
and
hurry
of
War
,
embracing
all
affairs
,
&
governing
them
,
with
that
sweet
temper
,
and
equality
of
spirit
,
that
they
resemble
those
active
spirits
,
which
move
the
whole
Heavens
,
not
using
in
themselves
,
the
least
agitation
.
Amber-Greece
is
nothing
so
sweet
,
in
it self
,
as
when
it
is
compounded
with
other
things
,
so
these
Godly
,
Wise
,
Couragious
,
and
,
every
way
,
Excellent
Counsellours
:
improve
themselves
by
the
communication
of
their
counsells
together
,
and
do
,
(
even
as
Flint-stones
,
which
by
their
proximity
,
do
make
their
sparkles
to
flie
)
by
a
holy
emulation
which
they
use
,
in
the
pursuite
of
God
,
not
onely
enlighten
others
,
but
enkindle
in
each
others
hearts
,
a
more
sensible
,
and
pious
apprehension
of
God
,
and
all
good
things
,
by
a
mutual
reverberation
:
But
I
must
hasten
;
for
when
I
have
said
all
,
that
can
Be
said
,
it
will
fall
short
of
their
most
Mosaical
merits
;
So
I
shall
conclude
with
them
,
in
saying
onely
,
that
they
are
all
persons
,
composed
according
to
Jethro's
character
,
and
that
when
our
second
Moses
adopted
them
into
his
secret
counsells
,
we
could
none
of
us
deny
,
nor
can
yet
,
but
that
it
seemed
his
late
Highnesse
had
drawn
so
many
Angels
from
Heaven
,
to
fix
them
at
the
stern
of
his
Estate
;
for
they
are
all
of
them
,
as
unlike
their
Predecessors
,
as
all
the
World
can
wish
them
.
Then
,
if
we
but
consider
a
little
,
the
excellent
choice
,
his
Highnesse
has
made
of
Commissioners
,
and
Keepers
of
his
Great
Seal
,
we
cannot
but
acknowledge
that
they
are
persons
,
without
any
exception
,
fitted
,
for
so
great
a
work
,
that
carry
a
constant
Court
of
Chancery
engraven
in
their
breasts
,
and
bear
,
jus
aequum
&
bonum
,
written
in
their
very
foreheads
.
For
the
Lords
Commissioners
of
his
Highnesse
Treasury
,
they
cannot
be
questioned
to
be
of
as
exact
a
choice
,
and
equal
disposition
for
the
great
Trust
,
still
men
of
our
Mosaical
temper
,
fearing
God
,
and
dealing-truly
;
and
so
we
may
safely
affirm
,
that
our
second
Moses
,
selected
Persons
for
that
employment
,
as
well
as
other
,
to
whom
he
might
as
safely
have
reposed
his
conscience
,
as
he
did
his
purse
:
Men
all
as
honourable
in
their
breedings
,
as
Noble
by
their
births
,
of
as
profound
Learning
,
and
ability
in
the
Laws
,
as
of
sublime
honesty
and
fidelity
to
their
Country
;
and
of
a
most
unspotted
integrity
,
both
towards
God
,
and
his
Highnesse
,
their
late
Mosaical
Master
.
I
should
be
infinite
,
to
insist
upon
all
the
particular
men
of
Honour
,
employed
by
his
Highnesse
:
So
I
shall
speak
onely
something
to
our
Parallel
of
Mosaical
Judges
,
to
which
our
present
Ascent
naturally
leads
us
,
and
leave
the
rest
,
to
be
made
out
,
by
ingenuous
Readers
themselves
.
And
first
,
for
that
incomparable
pair
of
my
Lords
the
Chief
Justices
,
with
the
several
Sets
of
ingenious
and
godly
Judges
,
Attorny
,
and
Solicitor-General
,
all
his
Highnesse's
Council
at
Law
,
with
other
Officers
,
and
Appendices
,
to
each
Court
:
They
are
all
such
select
and
eminent
Persons
,
and
indeed
,
the
plurality
of
Lawyers
,
from
the
Purple
,
to
the
Sable
Robe
,
of
this
present
Age
,
so
accompplisht
with
piety
,
and
parts
,
that
the
Divine
Themis
her self
,
will
not
be
ashamed
to
call
her self
a
prostitute
in
former
Ages
,
and
acknowledge
this
production
of
hers
,
to
be
onely
genuin
,
and
their
generation
onely
own
to
be
Legitimate
;
and
all
this
we
must
attribute
to
his
late
Highnesse
his
most
Mosaical
influence
.
Their
Lordships
,
I
mean
,
those
excellent
persons
in
supreme
Judicature
,
are
known
to
live
the
Laws
,
as
well
as
to
see
them
put
in
execution
:
Evecti
in
excelsum
,
inde
magis
vitia
despiciunt
,
as
the
wise
Cassiodorus
well
expresseth
it
:
They
know
that
God
,
and
his
Highnesse
,
Cassiod
.
have
set
them
on
high
,
for
no
other
cause
,
but
to
behold
vices
beneath
them
,
which
whosoever
does
exalt
,
will
find
himself
quickly
trampled
underfoot
,
by
them
,
and
made
to
drink
the
greatest
part
of
the
poison
,
which
he
mingles
for
others
,
and
he
that
breakes
down
the
hedge
,
Eccles.
10.8
.
as
the
Scripture
threatens
,
the
Snake
shall
sting
him
first
.
Their
Lordships
,
I
say
,
have
given
sufficient
evidence
to
the
World
,
that
they
know
all
this
,
and
practice
the
contrary
course
;
They
know
themselves
to
be
lookt
upon
,
as
Stars
in
the
firmament
;
and
Philosophy
tells
us
,
that
the
more
light
a
body
has
,
the
more
it
ought
to
have
of
participation
,
and
favourable
influences
,
for
objects
,
that
are
in
a
lower
degree
than
it
.
Nihil
vile
,
Cass
.
nihil
cupidum
,
judices
decet
,
claras
suas
maculas
reddunt
,
si
illi
ad
quos
multi
respiciunt
,
aliquâ
reprehensione
sordescant
,
sayes
the
same
excellent
Cassiodorus
,
Nothing
vile
or
covetous
,
becomes
Judges
;
the
spots
of
persons
in
power
,
are
quickly
spyed
;
for
they
being
aloft
,
every
eye
dwells
upon
them
.
We
have
seen
in
forreign
parts
,
and
heretofore
here
in
England
,
Judges
enough
neglectful
of
their
duty
,
and
Courts
of
Justice
resembling
rather
old
Cyclopean
Cavernes
,
than
Temples
of
peace
;
for
which
we
have
seen
the
very
fields
themselves
weeping
;
nay
,
filled
with
large
pools
,
and
standing
waters
,
gathered
together
from
the
teares
of
Orphans
,
and
Widows
,
and
an
infinity
of
other
persons
,
under
oppression
;
and
this
by
the
wickednesse
of
some
,
who
take
delight
to
stretch
out
suites
of
Law
with
their
tongues
,
as
Shooe-makers
do
their
leather
,
with
their
teeth
;
which
made
holy
Cyprian
cry
out
,
Cyprian
.
Epist.
ad
Donatum
.
Inter
leges
ipsas
delinquitur
,
inter
jura
peccatur
.
Innocency
is
seldom
so
ill
treated
any
where
,
as
in
those
places
,
where
profession
is
most
made
to
defend
it
:
The
Serpents
of
the
Desart
,
have
lesse
gall
and
spleen
,
than
such
Serpents
that
make
the
house
of
Justice
to
eccho
with
their
clamours
,
loud
as
the
waves
,
which
are
heard
to
roare
,
upon
the
shore
of
the
Aegean
Sea
,
and
flourish
in
the
World
,
as
Cato
tells
us
,
Cato
.
like
Princely
Theives
,
Fures
privatorum
furtorunt
in
compendibus
,
Publici
in
auro
vitam
agunt
,
saith
he
,
Gibbits
,
nay
Wheels
and
Racks
,
are
prepared
for
some
miserable
Criminals
,
because
they
were
yet
but
little
Theives
,
who
had
they
grown
to
be
greater
,
it
may
be
their
Crimes
had
rather
been
Crowned
,
than
chastised
.
Plutarch
very
aptly
compares
those
Courts
,
Plut.
de
Curiosit
.
and
Cities
,
where
these
raging
injustices
are
committed
,
to
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
those
nefast
and
fatal
Portals
,
ill
boading
Doors
,
whereof
Histories
make
mention
,
that
were
never
opened
,
but
to
passe
away
bodies
of
condemned
persons
,
all
villany
,
carrion
,
and
stinking
ordure
.
How
much
are
we
indebted
in
the
mean
time
,
to
his
late
Highnesse
his
pious
care
,
and
Princely
provision
for
us
,
to
advance
onely
to
his
Tribunals
,
such
glorious
Judges
,
who
are
themselves
,
speaking
Laws
,
and
do
more
right
to
the
Publick
,
by
their
words
,
and
examples
,
that
all
the
written
Labells
in
the
World
could
propagate
?
Men
so
much
of
Moses
his
make
,
Couragious
,
fearing
God
,
dealing
truly
,
and
hating
covetousnesse
,
not
wresting
the
Law
,
nor
respecting
persons
,
neither
taking
reward
;
that
we
may
boldly
affirm
,
that
they
have
already
put
on
incorruption
,
bearing
alwayes
in
their
minds
,
That
great
Dignities
are
oblgations
of
conscience
,
binding
more
than
the
chains
of
Medea
to
give
a
perfect
luster
of
Divinity
:
Happy
are
the
people
who
have
the
Lord
for
their
God
,
and
such
Judges
and
Governours
set
over
them
:
and
this
happinesse
we
owe
to
his
late
Highnesse
,
his
most
Mosaical
care
over
us
,
placing
over
us
such
persons
in
power
,
that
he
might
as
well
answer
for
,
to
God
,
as
for
himself
;
by
which
means
we
must
needs
be
sensible
how
he
has
left
us
a
government
so
sweetly
still
establisht
,
that
we
can
compare
it
more
properly
to
nothing
,
than
to
the
Halcyons
nest
,
which
calmes
the
browe
of
Heaven
.
I
shall
conclude
this
Parallel
therefore
,
with
an
exclamation
of
a
most
ingenuous
Scotchman
,
Parcl
.
Arg.
against
a
sort
of
Kings
,
meaning
,
it
may
be
,
some
of
his
own
Country
:
0
strange
and
silly
providence
of
Princes
,
saith
he
,
to
keep
then
but
a
few
Hawks
,
to
have
their
stables
full
of
Capreoling
Horses
,
as
in
an
army
of
Sybarits
,
or
not
speedily
to
repair
the
losse
of
a
Hound
,
if
a
wild
Boar
happen
to
kill
one
of
them
!
These
things
,
I
say
,
not
more
for
the
use
,
and
pleasure
of
Princes
,
than
for
meer
ostentation
and
shew
of
Majesty
,
they
hold
a
sin
to
be
omitted
;
nay
,
they
can
waste
their
Gold
,
and
spend
their
whole
Treasure
,
upon
pitiful
and
base
fellows
:
But
O
,
it
is
too
too
chargeable
,
to
have
a
choice
of
brave
mindes
about
them
,
here
their
Parsimony
is
remembred
,
here
their
Exchecquer
fails
:
and
so
very
judiciously
proceeds
to
shew
,
what
choice
of
brave
men
should
be
about
the
Person
of
a
Prince
,
and
indeed
very
congruous
to
our
Mosaical
character
,
which
our
great
second
Moses
has
so
strictly
observed
,
in
those
brave
spirits
,
which
he
has
pickt
out
,
and
preferred
to
have
power
over
us
;
that
we
may
safely
say
,
he
has
by
that
,
as
by
any
other
of
his
glorious
Actions
,
outgone
the
condition
of
mortal
men
;
by
that
,
he
sees
himself
alive
still
,
and
in
health
,
much
better
than
by
perfumes
,
and
an
Eagle
escaping
from
his
Funeral
Pile
,
does
he
see
himself
likewise
to
be
deified
:
By
this
,
he
shall
triumph
over
time
,
with
the
applause
of
all
men
;
These
Persons
likewise
shall
be
his
Pageants
to
all
eternity
;
these
his
rich
spoiles
of
Nations
,
of
whose
flowers
,
as
it
were
,
he
has
so
made
himself
a
glorious
Garland
.
The
seventeenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
not
onely
curious
in
the
choice
of
his
Officers
;
but
continued
still
his
own
constant
care
over
his
people
,
and
above
all
things
,
rendred
himself
most
remarkable
,
by
the
clemency
,
and
mildnesse
,
of
his
Government
,
tempering
alwayes
his
severity
with
sweetnesse
,
and
carrying
his
people
,
(
like
an
indulgent
father
)
as
sucking
children
in
his
arms
,
Num.
11.12
.
and
bosome
,
not
trampling
them
like
slaves
,
under
his
feet
,
and
interposing
frequently
between
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
them
,
to
save
them
from
destruction
.
Nay
to
the
heighth
of
that
,
he
offered
himself
to
be
blotted
out
of
the
Book
of
Life
,
to
save
them
,
The
Parallel
.
We
have
already
seen
in
our
former
Ascents
,
the
first
Moses
his
promptnesse
to
pardon
all
private
injuries
,
and
offences
,
how
great
soever
against
himself
:
nor
shall
we
find
his
great
goodnesse
lesse
unwilling
to
proceed
to
punishment
of
publick
transgressions
themselves
;
insomuch
,
that
we
find
him
frequently
desiring
himself
to
suffer
for
his
subjects
faults
:
alwayes
carrying
them
in
his
bosome
,
like
children
,
and
never
imposing
any
hard
tax
or
burden
on
them
,
&c.
A
most
pious
clement
Prince
he
was
indeed
,
and
no
lesse
vigorously
followed
in
this
,
than
in
his
other
Sovereign
vertues
,
by
our
glorious
second
Moses
.
Did
ever
any
Prince
in
the
World
go
more
obliging
wayes
in
his
Government
;
than
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
has
done
?
Has
he
not
ever
shewed
a
greater
affection
to
sway
the
Scepter
over
us
,
than
to
brandish
the
Sword
?
and
to
govern
us
more
by
Laws
,
than
Arms
?
Nay
,
when
the
Laws
themselves
(
as
in
many
things
they
are
most
cruel
)
were
likely
to
bring
a
legal
injury
,
and
a
ruin
upon
any
man
;
how
has
he
alwayes
endeavoured
to
sweeten
the
rigour
of
them
?
and
that
not
onely
to
do
good
to
the
innocent
,
but
by
pardoning
the
culpable
themselves
;
for
very
little
indeed
,
is
that
Clemency
to
be
esteemed
,
which
does
onely
abstain
to
strike
those
who
give
no
offence
:
No
,
my
Lord
did
ever
consider
,
that
mercy
was
made
onely
for
the
miserable
,
and
knew
that
in
punishing
or
revenging
injuries
,
he
could
onely
do
like
the
men
of
the
earth
,
but
by
gracious
clemency
,
and
practise
of
pardoning
,
he
was
to
share
in
glory
with
the
great
Monarch
of
Heaven
,
who
daily
makes
his
Sun
to
shine
on
criminal
heads
,
as
well
as
the
most
innocent
.
Nay
,
his
eminent
mercy
was
used
to
extend
it self
,
not
onely
to
common
Malefactors
,
but
to
his
most
malitious
enemies
themselves
,
as
we
have
fully
seen
:
and
indeed
,
a
most
pretious
goodly
sight
it
is
,
and
as
the
holy
Father
calls
it
,
the
most
glorious
spectacle
in
the
World
,
Ambros
.
and
able
to
attract
Angels
to
the
Gates
of
Heaven
to
behold
:
It
is
not
Theaters
,
nor
Amphi-Theaters
,
Pyramids
,
or
the
like
great
worldly
wonders
,
but
such
a
man
,
as
knows
how
to
do
well
,
and
bear
ill
,
and
to
vindicate
himself
from
ill
,
by
doing
well
.
This
very
Angelical
spectacle
,
must
my
Lord
be
acknowledged
to
have
been
,
by
all
that
knew
him
.
So
throughly
has
his
Highnesse
practised
that
true
,
and
Princely
,
though
very
ticklish
rule
of
the
good
Father
Augustin
,
●ugustin
.
Disce
diligere
inimicum
,
si
vis
cavere
inimicum
,
The
means
to
preserve
from
enemies
,
is
to
love
them
,
which
agrees
with
the
Poets
policy
too
,
who
cries
,
Vt
ameris
,
ama
,
It
is
onely
love
,
that
makes
to
be
beloved
;
and
that
our
second
Moses
has
ever
taken
for
the
surest
guard
of
his
Princely
greatnesse
:
Nor
was
that
the
course
of
his
Civil
,
and
peaceable
proceedings
onely
;
but
of
his
very
Martial
.
How
often
have
we
seen
him
,
even
in
the
very
hurry
of
a
Victory
,
and
heat
of
execution
,
sounding
a
retreat
to
himself
,
and
sheathing
his
sword
in
clemency
,
which
drawn
,
threatned
nothing
but
destruction
,
and
a
whole
deluge
of
blood
.
His
well
complexioned
soul
,
could
never
understand
the
temper
of
that
Tyrant
,
Dio.
Halic
.
l.
5.
of
whom
the
Historian
complains
;
Cum
victor
extiterit
,
lictor
protinus
evasit
,
After
his
Victory
made
himself
,
as
it
were
,
a
Hangman
,
but
alwayes
supported
the
opinion
aforesaid
,
quoted
out
of
Nicetus
,
that
naturae
injuriam
facit
,
Nicetus
.
&
humanitatis
legem
violat
,
qui
ultra
victoriam
iracundiae
indulget
:
He
is
a
violater
of
all
humanity
,
and
injurious
to
very
Nature
it self
,
that
can
be
angry
beyond
his
Victory
:
but
upon
this
we
have
enlarged
already
,
so
I
shall
passe
over
it
now
,
with
saying
onely
,
that
as
the
gracious
Lord
of
Heaven
,
was
pleased
to
establish
his
Highnesse
his
Throne
in
mercy
,
so
he
alwayes
guarded
it
secure
to
himself
,
by
his
Clemency
;
for
by
that
,
he
commanded
hearts
,
which
he
knew
to
be
of
much
more
force
,
than
to
be
a
Master
of
men
.
Omnia
vicit
qui
animum
expugnavit
;
To
conquer
affections
,
is
the
greatest
piece
of
victory
,
and
that
can
never
be
obtained
,
but
by
the
armes
of
love
and
sweetnesse
;
and
by
those
armes
likewise
we
see
offenders
are
oftener
reformed
,
than
by
all
the
violence
,
and
severity
of
rigour
:
Monendo
certius
quàm
minando
,
cedendo
quàm
caedendo
scelera
interdùm
coercentur
,
and
this
accorded
so
well
,
with
that
old
piece
of
Aristotelian
Policy
,
Praestat
mille
nocentes
absolvere
,
quàm
innocentem
opprimere
vel
unum
,
Better
let
a
thousand
guilty
persons
passe
unpunisht
,
than
to
injure
one
onely
innocent
;
that
his
Highnesse
has
alwayes
taken
it
for
the
surest
ground-work
of
his
happy
government
:
and
for
this
,
he
had
not
onely
the
example
of
his
Master
Moses
,
but
the
very
precept
,
and
practice
of
God
himself
:
for
did
not
he
command
our
first
Moses
to
carry
the
people
in
his
bosome
,
and
is
it
not
his
common
practise
to
govern
the
World
by
his
mercy
?
of
which
if
any
should
be
of
so
reprobate
a
judgement
as
to
doubt
,
let
him
consult
the
Prophet
,
who
tells
us
,
that
God
measures
the
waters
with
his
fist
,
and
poiseth
the
heavens
in
the
palme
of
his
hand
;
which
signifies
,
(
according
to
the
best
Interpreters
)
that
the
Lord
goes
with
a
close
shut
and
contracted
hand
to
punishments
,
intimated
by
waters
,
but
proceeds
with
the
whole
extent
of
his
goodnesse
to
reward
,
that
is
represented
by
the
heavens
.
The
Rainbow
,
which
the
Lord
has
taken
for
the
symbol
of
his
reconciliation
with
man
,
and
environeth
the
Throne
of
the
Almighty
,
as
we
find
in
the
Apocalypse
,
it
is
Arcus
carens
sagittâ
,
as
holy
Ambrose
observes
,
Qui
terrere
magis
vult
,
quàm
ferire
,
A
bow
without
arrows
,
that
is
bent
,
more
to
terrifie
,
than
to
strike
.
Nay
,
the
Lord
makes
it
so
great
a
matter
to
pardon
an
offender
,
that
he
will
rather
permit
his
whole
Essence
to
be
toucht
,
than
his
Clemency
to
be
so
much
as
questioned
:
his
very
Title
of
Godhead
to
be
invaded
,
rather
than
his
glory
of
pardon
.
And
yet
our
bold-faced
Florentine
,
will
go
about
to
teach
his
Prince
,
Mach.
Princ.
cap.
17.
to
establish
himself
by
cruelty
;
as
if
no
government
should
be
,
or
could
possibly
be
made
secure
,
that
was
not
built
on
the
bloodshed
of
subjects
;
and
this
he
goes
about
to
prove
,
by
the
examples
of
Caesar
Borgia
,
and
the
stern
Emperour
Severus
,
&c.
And
then
he
proceeds
to
affirm
it
,
for
a
fundamentall
Maxim
of
State
;
That
it
is
better
for
a
Prince
to
be
feared
,
than
loved
;
for
men
,
saith
this
wise
Secretary
,
do
love
as
it
pleaseth
them
,
but
do
fear
as
it
pleaseth
the
Prince
;
and
therefore
infers
,
that
a
wise
Prince
,
will
found
himself
sooner
,
and
rely
surer
on
that
way
,
which
depends
on
himself
,
than
upon
that
which
depends
upon
another
.
A
very
subtile
inference
indeed
,
if
it
were
possible
for
a
Prince
to
keep
his
people
,
so
perpetually
under
still
,
as
to
make
them
alwayes
stoope
to
kisse
the
yoke
for
fear
:
but
experience
plainly
proves
the
contrary
,
that
no
Tyrant
in
the
World
,
be
he
never
so
terrible
,
could
,
or
can
,
so
keep
his
people
under
the
lash
,
but
they
will
sometimes
get
loose
,
and
unyoking
themselves
,
make
the
effects
of
their
forced
fear
,
felt
by
the
Authors
of
it
.
And
this
is
apparent
by
the
issues
,
that
most
Tyrants
have
found
of
their
cruelties
;
as
Nero
,
Caligula
,
Otho
,
Vitellius
,
and
Domitian
:
as
also
Julianus
,
Heliogabalus
,
Gallienus
,
Maxentius
,
Philippus
,
Pocas
,
Carinus
,
Zeno
,
and
divers
others
,
who
did
all
finish
their
lives
,
and
Empires
together
,
most
tragically
by
the
sword
.
And
truly
reason
it self
,
seems
clearly
to
me
to
prove
,
it
must
be
so
.
Does
not
Philosophy
assure
us
,
that
no
violence
can
endure
long
;
but
this
kind
of
cruel
government
by
fear
onely
,
is
set
upon
the
highest
pitch
of
violence
;
therefore
impossible
to
be
of
any
considerable
continuance
.
And
truly
this
politick
Thesis
of
Nicholas
Machiavells
,
seems
so
absurd
to
himself
,
that
presently
after
he
has
asserted
it
,
he
begins
to
recant
,
and
temper
it
thus
;
I
grant
,
saith
he
,
that
Prince
to
do
best
,
who
can
joyn
to
be
feared
,
and
loved
together
;
but
that
being
a
thing
very
difficult
,
if
not
impossible
,
to
be
compassed
,
as
he
sayes
,
he
counsels
to
procure
fear
,
rather
than
love
.
Just
so
,
he
tells
us
,
in
another
place
,
that
piety
is
a
thing
impossible
to
be
in
a
wise
Prince
:
Thus
does
our
Politick
Secretary
serve
us
,
like
a
lewd
ignorant
Physitian
,
who
is
pleased
to
make
the
sick
party
to
dispair
of
health
,
because
he
cannot
tell
how
to
cure
him
.
This
mischeivous
Maxim
of
his
,
he
drew
doubtlesse
,
from
the
mouths
of
two
of
the
greatest
monsters
of
Tyranny
that
ever
were
in
the
World
,
Sueton.
in
.
Calig
.
cap.
30.
and
they
were
Caligula
,
who
,
as
Suetonius
tells
us
,
did
frequently
usurp
that
impious
Proverb
,
Oderint
dum
metuant
,
and
Tiberius
,
who
would
seem
to
mitigate
the
malice
of
it
,
by
saying
,
Oderint
dum
probent
,
the
one
saying
,
Let
them
hate
,
so
they
fear
,
the
other
,
Let
them
hate
,
so
they
allow
:
But
I
am
so
much
of
Machiavels
mind
,
that
the
seeming
Moderator
in
this
point
,
is
in
the
greatest
extreme
;
for
certainly
,
his
eyes
were
never
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
,
Greg.
in
Job
.
27.
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
,
Exod.
36.6
.
Levit.
25.35
,
36.
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
Royal
high-way
;
as
most
particularly
,
of
our
late
great
Prince
,
and
Protector
,
of
whose
most
obliging
wayes
of
Government
,
we
have
been
all
made
so
sensible
,
that
we
may
cry
out
,
Bernard
.
as
holy
Bernard
did
upon
the
like
occasion
.
O
suaves
nexus
,
queis
,
animi
,
obsequiis
quasi
compedibus
illigantur
,
&
tanquam
beneficiorum
cumulis
insepeliuntur
:
O
sweetest
tyes
of
obligations
,
with
which
souls
are
fast
bound
as
with
fetters
,
and
as
it
were
,
buried
in
heapes
of
benefits
.
His
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
like
that
his
most
exemplary
Master
,
the
former
Moses
,
full
well
considered
all
this
,
and
collected
,
that
if
this
were
the
true
way
to
glory
,
for
all
great
Ones
to
go
in
,
to
oblige
subjects
by
beneficence
,
as
we
have
hitherto
seen
it
is
;
how
ignominious
and
ugly
a
thing
it
must
needs
be
,
in
those
,
that
go
about
to
pillage
,
spoile
,
and
prey
,
upon
their
people
,
with
unjust
Taxes
,
and
impositions
,
as
some
ill
tutored
Tyrants
have
done
,
who
have
been
,
it
may
be
,
contented
to
spare
,
nay
,
to
complement
the
persons
of
their
people
,
whilst
they
have
most
theevishly
pickt
and
opprest
their
purses
,
serving
them
,
as
Prospero
Colunna
did
his
Goose
,
who
was
still
plucking
the
old
feathers
,
that
the
new
ones
,
as
he
said
,
might
grow
the
better
;
and
so
continue
to
milke
their
people
,
till
they
draw
blood
from
their
very
hearts
;
for
they
have
pretty
tricks
,
as
they
say
,
when
the
Cow
slacks
,
to
presse
her
nipples
too
.
And
however
this
was
said
to
be
the
practise
of
a
very
great
Politician
,
late
in
France
,
I
must
be
bold
,
(
according
to
our
Mosaical
Rule
)
to
passe
my
censure
on
,
and
condemn
it
,
as
utterly
unchristian
,
and
a
very
unprofitable
policy
.
Notwithstanding
,
as
I
have
heard
,
he
was
used
to
boast
.
That
La
France
est
un
beau
Pre
,
qu'
on
tondoit
trois
fois
la'nnee
;
France
was
a
very
fair
Meadow
,
and
fit
to
be
mow'd
at
least
thrice
a
year
.
He
alwayes
laught
at
that
pious
Principle
,
which
called
the
peoples
hearts
,
the
Kings
best
Exchecquer
;
but
reflected
oftener
on
that
Maxim
,
Populus
aut
humiliter
servit
,
aut
superbè
dominatur
,
The
common
people
either
must
serve
slavishly
,
or
will
rule
insolently
;
and
that
they
were
like
fire
and
water
,
Good
Servants
,
but
the
worst
Masters
;
therefore
he
would
take
a
course
to
keep
them
under
,
by
perpetual
impositions
,
and
a
pitiful
poverty
,
and
so
,
upon
the
matter
,
made
them
worse
than
Asses
,
to
become
meer
Dromedaries
,
who
not
onely
submit
to
bear
their
heavy
burdens
,
but
humbly
kneel
down
,
to
receive
them
:
yet
,
by
his
good
leave
,
he
might
have
reflected
something
upon
what
that
grave
,
learned
,
Boetius
.
and
eminent
Statesman
,
Boetius
told
his
Gothick
King
Theodorick
,
that
the
common
people
,
did
participate
much
of
the
nature
of
the
herb
called
Basil
,
which
rendreth
a
good
pleasant
and
wholesome
savour
,
as
Naturalists
informe
us
,
if
gently
handled
,
but
turns
to
be
poisonous
and
creates
Scorpions
themselves
when
rudely
chafed
.
Quint.
Curt.
Alexander
,
I
am
sure
,
was
commended
by
Quintus
Curtius
,
and
all
Wise
men
,
that
have
written
of
him
,
for
making
his
subjects
the
keepers
of
his
Treasure
.
Then
Sextus
Aurelius
Victor
,
Sext.
Aurel
Vict.
tells
us
,
that
Fiscus
est
Reipub.
lien
,
quo
crescente
artus
reliqui
tabescunt
;
The
Fisk
or
Exchecquer
is
the
spleen
of
the
Common-wealth
,
the
over-encrease
,
or
swelling
of
which
,
makes
all
the
other
members
to
consume
;
Claud.
and
Claudian
gives
the
Emperour
Honorius
this
great
Elogy
,
Nec
tua
privatis
crescunt
aeraria
damnis
,
That
his
coffers
did
never
encrease
,
by
any
private
mans
losses
.
Basilius
often
advised
his
officers
,
Basilius
.
that
the
money
,
which
they
were
to
raise
for
him
,
should
not
be
at
any
time
dipped
either
in
the
teares
,
or
blood
of
his
subjects
:
Cic.
l.
2.
de
Offi.
and
Cicero
in
his
Offices
,
wisely
premonisheth
all
Statesmen
in
those
occasions
,
Vt
omnes
intelligant
,
si
salvi
esse
velint
,
necessitati
esse
parendum
:
That
the
peoples
private
purses
,
were
but
so
to
be
opened
,
as
to
keep
them
shut
,
and
safe
from
those
enemies
,
that
might
otherwise-seize
upon
,
and
consume
all
.
I
might
be
infinite
,
to
summe
up
all
that
has
been
said
,
by
the
gravest
and
most
judicious
men
of
the
whole
World
,
upon
this
point
,
and
to
oppose
them
against
that
French
Politician
,
but
I
am
obliged
not
to
digresse
too
far
from
our
Parallel
,
whose
Mosaical
example
onely
,
were
enough
to
confute
so
heretical
a
piece
of
policy
.
He
sufficiently
knew
all
that
stuff
,
to
be
but
a
clear
chip
of
the
old
block
of
Machiavel
,
and
certainly
in
his
own
pious
opinion
,
did
very
much
blame
,
and
would
as
willingly
have
redrest
,
if
he
could
,
those
grievances
of
our
neighbour-nation
,
as
he
did
our
own
;
and
certainly
those
counsels
are
as
unlikely
to
prove
successeful
to
France
,
as
they
have
done
to
other
Princes
,
and
Provinces
,
where
they
have
been
practised
.
I
am
sure
,
that
Kingdom
has
smarted
for
them
,
pretty
well
already
,
and
they
are
in
a
fair
way
to
be
causes
of
greater
confusions
.
His
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
in
the
mean
time
,
was
contented
to
follow
his
old
Master
Moses
,
rather
than
Mr.
Machiavel
,
and
frequently
has
been
heard
to
honour
the
judgement
of
that
most
excellent
Person
,
and
pious
Politician
,
Boetius
,
Boetius
.
before
spoken
of
,
who
was
used
very
often
,
to
inculcate
to
his
King
Theodorick
,
better
Principles
;
and
once
in
a
most
elegant
Oration
,
after
this
manner
,
That
Kings
were
but
Gods
Shepherds
,
and
so
permitted
to
sheare
their
Flocks
;
not
to
stay
them
.
That
a
body
over-charged
,
could
not
but
sinke
to
the
ground
,
and
that
there
was
no
Tribute
comparable
to
the
precious
commodities
,
derived
from
the
love
of
subjects
.
That
a
King
was
made
to
reign
over
men
,
not
as
a
man
,
but
as
the
Law
;
to
bear
his
subjects
in
his
bosome
,
and
not
to
trample
them
under
his
feet
;
to
teach
by
his
example
,
and
not
constrain
by
force
;
to
be
a
father
of
Citizens
,
and
not
a
master
of
Slaves
:
That
Kings
were
given
by
Heaven
,
for
the
use
,
and
benefit
of
the
people
,
and
that
they
ought
not
to
have
so
much
regard
to
the
extent
of
their
power
,
as
not
to
consider
the
stint
,
and
measure
of
their
own
obligations
;
and
to
handle
the
matter
so
on
all
occasions
,
that
the
greatnesse
of
their
Majesty
,
should
appear
in
its
goodnesse
onely
;
and
then
concludes
his
sanctified
counsels
,
with
a
most
pious
and
politick
Maxim
,
That
a
good
Prince
,
ought
to
fear
nothing
so
much
,
as
to
be
too
much
feared
.
And
all
this
,
I
am
sure
,
was
the
Mosaical
policy
of
his
late
Highnesse
,
who
never
imposed
Taxes
upon
,
or
drew
blood
from
his
people
,
but
when
driven
by
the
greatest
necessities
in
the
world
,
after
the
pattern
of
his
Great
Prototype
,
our
transcending
Patriarch
;
and
that
truly
,
I
should
humbly
conceive
to
be
enough
(
without
respect
to
the
precepts
or
practises
of
any
other
,
though
the
godliest
,
gravest
,
and
wisest
,
persons
,
in
all
Ages
,
as
we
have
seen
)
to
convince
,
any
phanatical
Florentine
,
or
French
Politician
whatsoever
,
under
whose
depraved
Policies
,
we
find
all
Cities
,
and
Countries
,
that
are
subjected
to
them
,
still
pitifully
complaining
,
the
rigourous
concussions
,
that
they
yet
feel
,
to
satisfie
with
their
sweat
and
blood
,
the
avarice
of
some
curst
particular
Officers
,
who
are
notwithstanding
as
greedy
as
fire
,
and
more
insatiable
than
the
Abyss
,
or
Hell
it self
.
But
I
shall
forbear
at
present
,
to
prosecute
this
dispute
any
further
;
for
I
conceive
by
what
is
already
said
,
there
is
no
sober
Christian
,
but
will
conceive
,
that
Cyclopaean
piece
of
policy
,
is
so
far
from
being
Mosaical
,
profitable
to
,
or
becoming
the
dignity
of
,
a
Christian
Prince
,
that
it
must
be
absolutely
contrary
,
and
destructive
,
both
to
Prince
and
people
;
nay
,
fitter
to
be
stiled
Barbarisme
,
than
a
Civil
Government
.
So
I
hope
,
we
may
now
securely
proceed
,
to
the
conclusion
of
our
precious
,
and
happy
Parallel
.
And
as
for
this
great
point
of
Piety
,
in
not
pressing
upon
the
peoples
purses
,
or
squeezing
their
estates
,
so
remarkable
in
our
former
Moses
,
there
is
no
man
sure
,
so
perverse
,
as
to
deny
our
second
,
to
be
his
perfect
Parallel
;
for
though
,
Bella
sustent
antur
pecuniarum
abundantiâ
,
as
Dionysius
Halicarnassaeus
tells
us
,
The
support
of
all
Wars
,
Dion
.
Ha●icar
.
lib.
6.
Tacit.
Annal.
13.
is
from
a
great
treasure
,
and
plenty
of
money
;
and
what
Tacitus
observes
,
is
most
certain
,
that
Dissolvitur
imperium
,
si
fructus
quibus
Res-Pub
.
sustinetur
,
diminuantur
,
There
is
no
State
or
Kingdom
can
continue
long
,
without
a
certain
,
and
a
large
revenue
;
yet
his
late
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
has
been
ever
so
tender
of
intrenching
upon
the
particular
purses
of
his
people
,
to
supply
those
publick
occasions
of
State
,
that
he
has
been
almost
guilty
of
transgressing
in
the
other
extreme
,
by
permitting
the
General
good
to
be
neglected
,
at
least
,
to
suffer
some
prejudice
for
want
of
it
.
Much
lesse
sure
,
can
any
such
thing
as
unjust
coveting
,
or
craving
of
other
mens
estates
for
himself
,
be
objected
to
him
,
which
most
of
his
malitious
adversaries
,
before
mentioned
,
have
been
guilty
of
,
in
the
highest
degree
.
Their
fingers
were
like
Talons
,
and
Claws
of
Harpies
,
to
scratch
and
scrape
what
they
could
for
themselves
:
His
hand
and
heart
were
alwayes
open
to
do
good
to
others
,
as
appeared
by
his
manifold
charities
,
in
the
relief
of
the
poor
,
especially
such
as
were
made
so
by
the
sad
distresse
of
War
;
and
I
dare
say
,
his
expense
that
way
,
has
been
far
greater
,
than
all
the
sharers
of
the
Church
and
Kingdoms
spoiles
put
together
,
have
disburst
.
There
was
a
notable
Inscription
upon
one
Gillias
,
as
Valerius
Maximus
tells
us
.
Val.
Max.
l.
4.
c.
8.
Quod
Gillias
possidebat
,
omnium
quasi
commune
patrimonium
erat
,
hic
ipsius
liberalitatis
praecordioe
habuit
,
&
domus
ejus
quasi
quaedam
munificentiae
officina
fuit
:
What
Gillias
had
,
was
the
possession
of
all
mankind
;
this
man
had
his
heart
,
and
entrails
,
composed
even
of
charity
it self
,
his
house
was
a
shop
of
bounty
;
and
all
this
sure
,
was
never
more
applicable
to
any
person
,
than
to
his
late
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
whose
hands
were
kist
by
millions
,
when
he
was
alive
,
in
acknowledgement
that
they
were
the
gracious
distributors
of
so
many
blessings
,
and
his
grave
,
now
he
is
dead
,
will
be
sprinkled
with
as
many
flowers
,
in
gratitude
for
the
preservation
of
so
many
lives
.
His
bounty
,
I
say
,
was
a
most
eminent
vertue
in
him
,
ever
holding
with
Cassiodorus
,
Cassiod
.
l.
1.
Ep.
19.
Idem
.
l.
1.
Ep.
16.
that
Periculosissima
res
est
in
imperante
tenuitas
,
That
narrownesse
of
soul
,
and
griping
hands
,
were
the
most
perillous
qualities
that
could
appear
in
a
Prince
;
and
with
the
same
excellent
Writer
concluded
likewise
,
that
Regnantis
facultas
fit
ditior
,
cum
remittit
,
&
acquirit
nobiles
thesauros
famae
,
neglecta
utilitate
pecuniae
,
A
Kings
Treasure
is
encreased
by
giving
,
and
forgiving
,
and
the
lesse
money
he
plucks
into
his
Exchecquer
,
the
more
glory
he
carries
about
his
Court.
Did
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
ever
draw
any
thing
from
private
men
,
but
in
order
to
their
own
preservation
?
He
never
desired
,
or
studied
,
any
thing
more
,
than
that
we
should
be
safe
,
nor
never
sought
ours
,
but
us
.
He
never
accounted
himself
rich
,
but
when
his
people
were
so
,
making
their
hearts
,
as
that
great
Alexander
did
,
his
best
Exchecquer
.
In
fine
,
what
was
once
said
of
Hadrianus
Caesar
,
must
be
acknowledged
to
be
his
Highnesse
his
most
especial
Character
,
Sic
suum
semper
gessit
Principatum
,
ut
res
sit
Populi
tota
,
non
sua
,
Whatsoever
he
has
done
in
his
Government
,
has
been
more
for
our
advantage
,
than
his
own
;
he
has
not
onely
forborne
to
burden
us
himself
,
but
has
most
mercifully
released
us
,
from
many
of
the
heavy
Taxes
,
that
were
imposed
upon
us
,
by
our
terrible
Task-masters
of
the
long
Parliament
,
and
like
a
true
Soul
of
Honour
,
never
sought
for
any
other
recompense
of
his
great
Actions
,
than
the
glory
of
doing
well
,
and
the
private
satisfaction
of
his
own
conscience
.
Thus
are
hearts
gained
here
,
and
Crowns
of
immortality
hereafter
.
Thus
truly
is
Heaven
it self
obliged
,
and
Earth
made
tributary
to
vertue
:
for
by
that
means
,
he
has
rendred
himself
to
be
truly
that
,
which
was
said
of
Octavianus
Caesar
,
Deliciae
humani
generis
,
The
love
and
delight
of
all
mankind
,
which
cannot
but
more
and
more
appear
to
us
,
as
we
proceed
to
mount
higher
upon
our
Mosaical
Ascents
and
Parallels
.
The
ninteenth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
a
most
exemplary
person
,
in
all
manner
of
Piety
towards
God
;
a
duty
most
becoming
a
great
Prince
,
to
be
highly
zealous
for
the
true
honour
,
and
Divine
worship
of
his
Almighty
Maker
,
the
Lord
of
Heaven
and
Earth
.
And
this
plainly
appeared
,
not
onely
in
his
frequent
spreading
of
his
hands
,
and
sometimes
falling
down
upon
his
face
before
the
Lord
;
Exod.
Levit.
Num.
Deut.
and
prostration
we
know
,
is
the
highest
part
of
Religious
worship
;
but
also
in
his
most
indefatigable
pains
,
speedy
care
,
and
expedition
,
in
preparing
of
the
Tabernacle
,
with
all
its
appertinencies
,
and
providing
offerings
for
it
.
Then
in
his
punctual
and
precise
care
,
Exod.
25.
for
the
ordering
of
the
particular
Ceremonies
,
Exod.
28.
and
Circumstances
of
Divine
Service
,
to
the
very
Garments
of
Aaron
,
the
Vrim
,
and
the
Thummim
,
and
the
Consecration
of
Priests
.
Exod.
29.
Then
in
the
constitution
of
many
most
costly
and
reverent
Sacrifices
,
Lev.
2.
as
the
continual
Burnt-offering
,
the
Meat-offering
,
Lev.
3.4
,
5.
the
Peace-offering
,
the
Sin-offering
,
&c.
Exod.
30.
Then
in
his
erection
of
the
Altar
of
Incense
,
his
appointment
of
the
course
,
for
the
ransom
of
Souls
,
for
the
making
of
the
holy
annointing
Oil
,
the
manner
of
making
,
with
the
ingredients
,
for
the
composition
,
of
the
holy
Perfume
.
Then
in
taking
order
,
for
an
infinity
of
other
Rights
,
Ceremonies
,
and
holy
Feasts
;
as
the
Feast
of
Passeover
,
the
Feast
of
Weeks
,
the
Feast
of
Trumpets
,
and
the
Feast
of
Tabernacles
,
&c.
Finally
,
giving
the
people
such
a
Law
,
so
solemn
,
and
so
strict
,
in
the
Service
of
the
Lord
,
as
if
they
should
have
nothing
almost
else
to
do
,
but
to
render
their
duty
to
the
Omnipotent
,
and
spend
all
their
time
,
Levit.
Num.
Deut.
in
paying
him
the
honours
of
a
glorious
Service
,
as
is
to
be
seen
at
large
,
throughout
his
Sacred
Writings
.
The
Parallel
.
If
we
look
upon
the
Piety
of
this
our
Great
Patriarch
,
or
his
happy
Parallel
,
our
late
Lord
Protector
,
in
the
largest
extent
of
it
,
we
should
find
it
,
as
boundlesse
as
the
Sea
,
and
our selves
swallowed
up
,
in
the
contemplation
of
it
;
So
we
have
restrained
our selves
,
to
the
discourse
of
that
part
of
their
piety
onely
,
which
has
relation
to
God-ward
,
and
a
true
zeal
to
his
holy
Worship
:
And
first
we
find
our
Patriarch
so
severe
and
punctual
in
all
his
performances
,
that
he
would
have
the
least
omission
of
a
puntillo
of
them
,
to
be
a
mortal
,
at
least
a
capital
sin
,
the
offender
being
to
be
cut
off
from
the
World
,
or
from
communion
with
the
people
:
and
so
sumptuous
he
was
in
his
appointed
worship
,
that
all
the
World
might
see
,
that
he
thought
nothing
too
costly
for
a
bare
ceremony
of
Divine
Service
,
and
that
the
people
should
take
notice
,
that
,
the
All
they
had
,
was
from
the
Lord
,
to
whom
they
were
to
pay
back
so
large
a
proportion
in
Sacrifice
.
A
most
Royal
,
Stately
,
and
Magnificent
,
manner
of
Worship
it
was
,
Levit.
Num.
Deut.
which
every
man
must
acknowledge
that
reads
the
several
solemnities
instituted
by
him
in
those
blessed
Books
,
and
worthy
of
the
spirit
of
so
great
a
Prince
,
Prophet
,
and
Patriarch
,
as
our
great
Moses
was
.
Now
,
has
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
shewed
lesse
Religious
zeal
,
or
true
Princely
piety
towards
God
?
or
lesse
extraordinary
care
,
and
pious
curiosity
,
in
providing
for
the
honour
,
splendour
,
worship
,
and
service
of
his
Holy
Name
?
No
his
Mosaic
Highnesse
,
full
well
knew
,
that
if
all
the
mountains
of
the
World
,
were
amassed
into
one
,
and
all
the
woods
of
the
Earth
made
into
one
Libanus
,
and
were
set
on
fire
,
and
all
the
beasts
of
a
thousand
fields
and
forrests
were
turned
into
victims
,
for
his
Sacrifices
,
they
would
be
all
as
nothing
in
value
,
in
respect
of
his
heavenly
Majesty
:
and
if
all
the
voices
of
men
were
tuned
into
one
,
and
that
one
voice
,
so
musically
made
,
could
speak
like
Thunder
,
and
be
heard
loudly
to
proclaim
from
Pole
to
Pole
,
the
glory
of
the
Almighty
,
it
could
not
be
sufficient
so
resound
his
holy
praises
.
To
this
purpose
it
was
,
that
his
Highnesse
,
was
pleased
frequently
to
approve
that
worthy
and
ingenious
fancy
of
Philo
that
great
and
Learned
Jew
,
Philo
Judaeus
in
Planta
Noe.
who
has
a
Story
,
though
in
it
,
may
be
,
nothing
at
all
of
verity
,
yet
I
am
sure
,
the
morality
of
it
,
is
very
excellent
.
This
great
man
,
in
a
Book
of
his
called
Noe's
Plant
,
relates
as
a
certain
tradition
of
the
Sages
of
his
Nation
,
from
the
very
beginning
of
the
World
;
That
God
the
Creator
,
after
that
he
had
formed
this
goodly
Globe
of
the
Vniverse
,
and
composed
it
as
a
glorious
Scutcheon
of
his
own
immense
Greatnesse
,
a
compendium
or
contracted
table
of
his
chiefest
Titles
,
and
a
perfect
Mirrour
,
of
his
Divine
Wisdom
and
Power
:
demanded
of
those
blessed
Spirits
about
him
,
which
were
the
Angels
(
it
may
be
then
in
glory
)
what
they
thought
,
of
that
great
piece
of
Work
?
upon
which
,
one
amongst
the
heavenly
throng
,
after
he
had
very
highly
commended
,
the
curious
Architecture
of
the
Vniverse
,
acknowledging
it
to
be
a
most
compleat
Fabrick
in
all
things
,
but
one
,
and
that
one
thing
,
he
said
,
was
wanting
to
the
perfection
of
so
goodly
a
Frame
,
which
he
required
as
a
noble
Seal
,
to
set
upon
so
incomparable
a
Piece
.
What
is
that
,
said
the
Eternal
Father
?
I
would
desire
,
replyed
the
holy
Spirit
,
That
there
might
be
a
strong
,
powerful
,
and
penetrating
harmonious
voice
,
which
borne
upon
the
wings
of
the
winds
,
&
Coaches
of
the
clouds
,
and
Charioted
thorough
the
air
,
might
replenish
all
the
parts
of
the
World
,
with
an
applause
of
so
accomplisht
a
Piece
of
Work
,
and
incessantly
to
eccho
forth
both
night
and
day
,
the
glories
of
God
,
with
praises
and
thanksgivings
for
his
Divine
Majesties
most
inestimable
benefits
.
This
Story
truly
may
passe
very
well
,
for
a
pretty
invention
at
least
,
and
not
unworthy
of
an
Angelical
spirit
,
that
was
zealous
for
the
honour
and
glory
of
the
Lord
,
his
Master
and
Creator
.
Yet
by
the
leave
of
this
good
spirit
,
I
must
be
bold
to
say
,
that
his
exception
,
if
we
take
it
as
so
,
was
in
something
very
frivolous
;
or
his
Complement
,
if
we
take
it
as
so
,
was
over-officious
.
For
first
,
the
Almighty
had
sufficiently
provided
,
against
that
pretended
defect
,
in
composing
the
World
,
in
the
frame
chat
we
behold
,
as
a
fair
large
Clock
;
and
then
proportionably
giving
to
man
the
place
,
which
this
celestial
and
critical
spirit
seemed
to
require
.
Now
,
that
this
great
Clock
of
the
Universe
,
should
be
alwayes
in
tune
,
to
his
service
,
and
Divine
disposition
,
he
has
laid
his
particular
commands
and
orders
upon
each
wheel
,
and
pin
,
to
do
their
parts
.
The
first
wheel
of
this
grand
Clock
,
is
that
primum
mobile
,
which
we
find
in
Philosophy
,
the
continual
motion
,
and
the
secret
influencies
of
antipathies
,
and
sympathies
,
which
lie
,
as
it
were
hidden
,
in
the
bowels
of
Nature
.
The
hand
of
this
universal
Horologe
,
is
that
goodly
embowed
piece
of
checkerwork
,
and
frettizing
of
the
heavenly
Orbes
,
which
we
behold
with
our
eyes
.
The
twelve
Signs
in
the
Zodiack
,
serve
,
as
it
were
,
for
distinctions
of
the
twelve
hours
of
the
day
.
The
Sun
it self
,
exerciseth
the
office
of
the
steel
,
and
gnomon
,
to
point
out
time
to
us
,
and
in
its
absence
the
Moon
:
the
other
Lights
and
Stars
,
contribute
thereto
,
their
lustrous
brightnesse
.
The
Sea
gives
in
the
azure
of
its
waves
for
ornament
;
as
also
the
Earth
produceth
its
varieties
of
herbs
,
flowers
,
and
fruits
,
for
enamel
of
the
outside
,
and
its
whole
body
,
for
a
perfect
counter-poise
:
its
stony
Quarries
,
Mettals
,
and
Minerals
,
for
to
exercise
the
wisest
,
and
learnedst
Naturalists
,
in
the
search
and
knowledge
of
this
great
Creator
:
The
lesser
and
inferiour
animals
,
are
the
small
chimes
;
and
Man
himself
,
is
the
great
Clock
,
which
is
to
strike
,
the
several
hours
,
and
so
perpetually
to
render
thanks
,
honour
,
glory
,
praise
,
service
,
and
worship
,
to
this
Almighty
Maker
.
And
the
most
vocal
Clock
to
celebrate
the
praises
of
his
Creator
,
(
that
these
later
Ages
have
produced
)
was
this
Man
of
men
,
our
most
pious
late
Lord
Protector
.
All
this
,
I
say
,
his
Highnesse
knew
full
well
,
as
our
great
Patriarch
,
his
Prototype
did
,
and
the
necessity
too
,
that
there
was
on
the
peoples
parts
,
to
give
the
most
gracious
Lord
of
Heaven
and
Earth
all
adoration
due
to
him
;
wherefore
we
find
,
how
he
enjoyned
such
solemne
observancies
upon
them
,
which
though
but
barely
typical
,
and
ceremonial
;
yet
were
hugely
necessary
to
strike
a
reverend
dread
of
the
Divine
Majesty
,
into
so
rebellious
a
people
.
Our
Princely
Patriarch
therefore
,
and
his
Parallel
,
our
late
Lord
Protector
,
knowing
themselves
(
as
all
other
Rulers
,
and
persons
in
power
are
)
to
be
set
upon
Pinacles
,
to
change
their
words
into
Laws
,
and
lives
into
Examples
,
were
the
first
and
foremost
always
,
in
the
practise
of
this
,
and
all
other
piety
.
The
lives
of
Princes
(
they
knew
)
are
more
read
,
than
their
laws
,
and
generally
more
practised
;
yea
,
their
examples
passe
altogether
as
current
as
their
coin
,
and
what
they
do
,
they
seem
to
command
to
be
done
;
cracks
in
glasses
,
though
past
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
,
Plin.
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
.
Exod.
8.
Exod
▪
9.
Exod.
10.
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
,
Exod.
15.
Exod.
16.
Exod.
17.
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
,
Num.
12.
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
,
Exod.
32.11
.
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
,
V.
12.
which
thou
hast
brought
forth
of
the
Land
of
Egypt
with
a
great
power
,
V.
13.
and
with
a
mighty
hand
?
wherefore
should
the
Egyptians
say
,
for
mischief
did
he
bring
them
out
,
V.
14.
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
immediately
following
,
tells
us
,
That
the
Lord
repented
him
of
the
evil
,
which
he
thought
to
do
unto
his
people
.
And
when
the
Lord
was
angerly
resolved
at
another
time
utterly
to
extirpate
the
people
,
for
their
incessant
rebellions
,
Moses
made
such
another
,
Num.
14.
though
something
longer
,
yet
no
lesse
effectual
,
prayer
,
to
the
Lord
for
them
,
and
the
Lord
,
as
if
he
had
been
able
to
deny
his
Moses
nothing
,
or
as
if
(
with
reverence
be
it
spoken
)
good
Moses
his
word
,
had
been
a
Law
unto
him
,
he
presently
replied
,
I
have
pardoned
them
according
to
thy
word
:
nay
,
how
often
has
the
Lord
desired
Moses
to
let
him
alone
,
as
if
he
had
been
struggling
with
him
,
and
tyr'd
with
the
importunity
of
his
prayer
.
It
would
make
another
Book
of
Numbers
,
to
recount
the
particular
Deliverances
,
which
that
disobedient
people
had
from
the
Divine
wrath
,
how
often
from
being
consumed
by
fire
,
and
eaten
up
by
fiery
Serpents
,
and
the
like
,
by
our
Moses
his
most
powerful
,
and
importunate
prayers
:
as
also
their
many
miraculous
Victories
over
their
enemies
;
all
of
which
,
were
obtained
,
more
by
his
prayers
,
than
their
forces
:
as
particularly
in
the
defeat
of
the
Amalekites
,
who
were
visibly
more
conquered
,
by
the
holding
up
of
his
hands
,
than
by
their
dextrous
managery
of
armes
;
our
Moses
his
blessings
upon
,
and
prayers
for
,
them
,
being
of
more
force
against
the
enemy
,
and
gave
them
more
deadly
blows
,
than
all
their
Cuttleaxes
,
and
warlike
Engins
.
The
Parallel
.
By
so
much
as
has
been
shewed
in
our
Ascent
,
of
our
Moses
his
happy
power
in
prayer
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
it
does
plainly
appear
,
how
great
a
preservation
it
was
,
to
that
perverse
people
,
to
have
a
Prince
and
Captain
over
them
,
that
had
so
familiar
an
addresse
unto
God
:
and
I
hope
it
will
never
more
be
called
in
question
,
by
any
knowing
Christian
,
whether
that
Divine
gift
of
prayer
,
be
a
qualification
equal
to
the
dignity
,
or
requisite
to
the
profession
of
a
Prince
?
though
I
know
,
some
of
our
Modern
Politicks
,
have
impiously
gone
about
to
dispute
that
too
;
whom
for
shame
I
shall
forbear
to
name
,
though
I
'le
be
bold
to
give
the
World
,
the
ungodly
words
of
one
of
the
Principal
of
them
.
Non
suadeo
Principi
,
stupenda
in
fanis
latitatione
,
neglectis
iis
quorum
cura
eum
maxime
solicitum
tenere
debet
,
omne
otium
conterere
,
aut
sanctuli
nomen
,
gestusve
affectare
:
bonus
animus
gratissimus
Deo
cultus
est
:
&
optimè
orat
,
qui
officio
gnaviter
functus
patriae
incolumitatem
procur
averit
,
unde
tot
hominum
salus
dependet
,
&c.
Now
,
not
to
trouble
you
with
a
literal
translation
(
for
I
hold
the
words
not
worth
it
)
he
tells
us
,
That
he
would
not
have
a
Prince
addicted
to
too
much
Devotion
;
nor
to
affect
to
be
a
little
Saint
:
he
sayes
his
prayers
best
(
quoth
he
)
that
does
his
businesse
happiliest
,
&c.
It
is
in
my
opinion
,
a
very
pitiful
,
vain
,
and
a
false
presumption
,
that
this
Gentleman
makes
,
and
never
indeed
can
be
brought
into
question
,
by
any
discreet
,
or
sober
Christian
,
whether
a
Prince
should
be
so
addicted
to
Devotion
,
as
to
intend
no
other
businesse
at
all
?
that
were
a
madnesse
in
any
private
person
,
much
more
then
must
it
be
in
any
man
that
is
concerned
in
the
publick
:
for
besides
the
inconsistency
of
such
a
Devotion
,
with
every
mans
particular
vocation
,
(
which
God
has
commanded
likewise
to
be
followed
)
it
is
altogether
in
its
own
self
,
unacceptable
to
God
:
Otherwise
we
should
enter
into
Religion
,
as
if
we
were
to
be
lifted
upon
a
rack
,
to
be
tortured
;
and
I
say
besides
,
it
is
an
injury
to
the
Lord
himself
,
to
think
,
there
can
be
no
true
piety
or
devotion
in
the
World
,
if
our
bodies
be
not
torne
in
pieces
,
and
our
spirits
quite
beaten
down
.
And
therefore
Gilbertus
a
great
Doctor
,
writing
upon
that
sentence
of
Paul
to
the
Crinthians
,
Doctor
Gilbertus
.
1
Cor.
6.
Glorificate
&
portate
Deum
in
Corpore
vestro
,
Glorifie
and
bear
God
in
your
bodies
,
makes
this
most
elegant
,
and
remarkable
observation
:
You
must
bear
Jesus
Christ
,
not
drag
him
,
Portari
vult
Christus
non
trahi
,
So
he
proceeds
,
Non
est
foenum
Christus
,
sed
flos
campi
,
&
fasciculus
mirrhae
,
inter
ubera
sponsae
,
&c.
Now
,
he
plainly
drags
him
,
who
makes
himself
surcharged
with
him
,
and
who
indiscreetly
afflicts
himself
in
the
service
that
he
rendereth
to
the
Divine
Majesty
,
not
considering
that
Jesus
Christ
is
the
flower
of
the
field
,
or
the
poesie
of
mirrh
,
between
the
breasts
of
the
Spouse
,
and
not
a
load
of
hay
,
to
be
drawn
,
under
which
we
must
needs
groan
,
like
a
wheel
ill-greased
.
This
was
so
foolish
a
superstition
,
and
so
old
a
one
,
that
the
Philosopher
himself
,
a
Pagan
,
Senec.
Epist.
114.
could
not
but
find
fault
with
,
when
he
said
,
Superstitio
amandos
timet
,
quos
colit
,
violat
.
It
is
a
very
fond
superstition
indeed
,
saith
this
wise
Pagan
,
and
raised
by
simple
people
onely
,
which
through
a
grosse
errour
,
fears
,
what
it
should
love
by
vertue
,
and
very
scarcely
can
have
any
knowledge
of
,
or
approach
to
God
,
but
by
violating
his
Clemency
(
a
thing
most
hateful
to
him
)
through
a
false
presumption
of
his
severity
.
They
must
be
very
silly
souls
indeed
,
and
have
very
little
or
no
feeling
of
the
Divinity
,
that
can
apprehend
God
(
whom
we
know
to
be
infinitely
merciful
)
to
be
as
terrible
as
a
Minos
,
or
a
Radamanthus
,
mentioned
in
poetical
Fables
,
who
were
alwayes
represented
in
those
fictions
,
to
be
most
spiteful
deities
,
to
come
and
pry
into
all
humane
actions
,
to
number
all
mens
steps
,
and
taking
pleasure
to
prepare
punishments
for
them
,
were
wont
to
raise
themselves
Trophies
,
upon
poor
mens
ruines
.
It
would
be
a
very
pretty
piece
of
Christianity
,
one
would
think
,
now
to
be
preached
,
That
devotion
,
and
all
labours
in
Religion
,
should
be
undertaken
by
us
,
without
any
relaxation
,
perpetual
disturbances
undergone
by
Christians
,
without
any
repose
,
and
miseries
without
any
remedy
,
or
comfort
at
all
.
Sure
this
must
be
thought
the
extreme
of
all
extremes
;
and
yet
our
Modern
Politicks
will
suppose
,
so
sottish
a
devotion
as
this
,
that
they
may
the
better
lay
their
foundation
,
of
a
wretched
incuriousnesse
in
Religion
,
and
prophane
neglect
of
that
Divine
duty
.
But
I
must
not
make
it
my
businesse
now
,
to
enter
the
lists
formally
,
with
that
sort
of
people
(
who
we
know
are
accustomed
upon
all
occasions
,
to
throw
dirt
in
the
very
face
of
the
Deity
it self
)
for
I
have
another
way
to
go
at
present
,
and
so
will
hasten
to
our
Parallel
.
For
my
part
,
I
am
fully
satisfied
,
and
so
I
hope
,
will
be
every
discreet
and
understanding
Christian
,
that
the
frequent
exercise
of
prayer
,
is
as
necessary
to
a
Prince
,
Governour
,
or
Statesman
,
for
the
well
management
of
all
affairs
,
as
it
is
for
an
animal
to
breath
.
The
spirit
of
the
best
man
,
we
know
,
is
no
otherwise
than
as
a
Sun-Dial
,
which
is
of
no
use
at
all
,
but
when
the
Sun
reflects
upon
it
.
Nor
can
any
Prince
,
or
Statesman
in
like
manner
expect
,
that
his
understanding
should
receive
any
true
light
or
direction
for
the
government
of
people
,
if
not
enlightned
with
the
true
rayes
of
God
:
and
that
light
is
not
to
be
had
,
but
by
the
means
of
prayer
:
The
practise
therefore
of
this
holy
duty
,
has
been
ever
stiled
,
and
esteemed
by
the
holy
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
The
Key
of
Heaven
,
and
the
confusion
of
Hell
,
the
Standard
of
our
Christian
warfare
,
the
conservation
of
our
peace
,
the
bridle
of
our
impatience
,
the
guardian
of
our
temperance
,
the
seal
of
chastity
,
the
advocate
of
offenders
,
the
consolation
of
the
afflicted
,
the
passe-port
of
the
dying
,
&c.
for
the
Just
do
live
and
dye
in
prayer
,
as
the
Phoenix
in
her
perfumes
.
A
Christian
doubtlesse
without
prayer
,
is
no
more
than
a
Bee
without
a
sting
,
which
can
neither
make
honey
,
nor
wax
.
From
the
defect
of
this
duty
,
have
proceeded
all
the
desolations
of
the
earth
:
from
hence
are
dayly
derived
so
many
falls
,
so
many
miseries
;
for
that
men
will
not
apply
themselves
to
tast
the
things
of
God
,
in
prayer
,
as
our
glorious
Patriarch
,
and
his
Parallel
have
alwayes
done
.
No
man
living
can
deny
sure
,
but
that
it
was
the
perpetual
preservation
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
that
their
Moses
had
that
happy
faculty
to
its
perfection
;
for
it
is
manifest
,
that
they
had
otherwise
been
swallowed
up
,
by
the
Divine
vengeance
;
and
in
stead
of
being
brought
to
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
they
had
been
fearfully
cut
off
from
the
land
of
the
Living
.
I
hope
it
is
already
made
as
evident
,
in
our
past
Parallels
,
that
we
have
received
as
great
Deliverances
,
and
preservations
,
by
the
means
of
our
second
Moses
,
which
could
never
have
been
,
but
by
his
free
,
frequent
,
and
powerful
,
accesses
to
God
in
prayer
;
as
I
shall
shew
more
at
large
presently
.
In
the
mean
time
,
I
will
be
bold
from
these
two
great
patterns
of
piety
,
to
draw
a
closing
Corollary
,
and
lay
down
the
whole
state
of
the
question
(
if
it
may
be
worthy
to
be
called
one
)
in
one
single
naked
Proposition
.
Every
good
Prince
,
being
a
publick
Person
,
and
charged
with
so
important
affairs
,
that
depend
wholly
upon
Providence
,
and
expect
the
motion
of
the
Divine
will
,
ought
,
after
these
two
grand
exemplars
of
Piety
and
Policy
,
to
consider
,
That
he
is
to
hold
a
great
deal
of
commerce
with
Heaven
,
where
his
businesse
so
much
lies
;
and
therefore
should
resolve
,
to
set
apart
according
to
the
proportion
of
his
time
,
and
other
occasions
,
some
principal
hours
,
(
of
leisure
,
shall
I
say
,
or
business
▪
at
least
)
of
retirement
,
to
negotiate
with
God
particularly
about
his
government
:
in
imitation
,
I
say
,
of
these
two
greatest
Statesmen
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
who
had
so
familiar
a
recourse
to
the
Almighty
,
that
as
the
one
was
,
so
the
other
,
for
ought
I
know
,
may
be
,
entitled
,
The
friend
of
God
.
O
matchlesse
Title
!
His
most
incomparable
Piety
,
knew
sufficiently
,
what
Gregory
Nazianzen
tells
us
,
That
if
we
are
to
have
the
Lord
in
our
minds
so
often
as
we
do
breath
,
How
much
more
suitable
it
is
,
to
a
Statesman
,
to
be
conversant
in
that
holy
duty
,
having
most
need
to
suck
in
the
life-giving
spirit
,
as
from
the
Fountain
of
the
Word
,
by
the
means
of
prayer
.
It
is
not
therefore
unfitly
stiled
,
The
spirit
of
prayer
;
for
it
is
the
breath
of
the
inward-man
.
Os
meum
aperui
,
saith
the
Scripture
,
&
attraxi
spiritum
;
I
opened
my
mouth
,
and
drew
in
the
spirit
.
We
are
all
ready
to
be
choaked
with
flesh
and
fat
,
and
to
be
devoured
with
flames
of
concupiscence
,
unlesse
we
upon
all
occasions
,
open
our
mouths
to
take
in
that
gentle
air
of
God
.
By
this
blessed
means
it
was
,
that
our
incomparable
Paire
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
have
arrived
at
this
great
perfection
:
to
whom
,
the
Lord
has
vouchsafed
so
much
of
his
familiarity
,
as
to
treat
with
them
as
friends
,
and
to
declare
himself
(
as
it
were
)
unable
to
deny
them
any
thing
.
As
for
the
first
,
we
have
seen
enough
already
in
sacred
Story
,
and
for
our
glorious
second
Moses
,
our
own
manifold
observations
,
and
frequent
experimental
knowledges
,
may
be
sufficient
to
inform
us
.
For
that
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
had
the
purity
and
excellency
of
this
precious
spirit
,
is
not
onely
manifest
,
to
those
that
have
had
the
happinesse
to
be
present
at
his
daily
spreading
of
his
hands
,
and
pouring
forth
of
his
spirit
,
before
the
Lord
,
and
to
joyn
with
him
in
his
Devotions
;
but
to
the
whole
Nation
,
except
the
most
stupid
,
and
malitious
part
of
it
,
that
either
will
not
,
or
cannot
,
be
sensible
of
the
great
benefits
,
that
we
have
for
so
long
a
time
received
by
his
powerful
addresses
unto
God
.
How
many
times
has
the
Divine
vengeance
been
diverted
from
falling
upon
our
sinful
heads
,
by
his
importunate
intercessions
?
How
many
pestilences
,
famines
,
and
other
plagues
,
(
which
our
impenitency
,
hardnesse
of
heart
,
and
ugly
ingratitude
,
had
as
well
deserved
,
as
either
the
cursed
Egyptians
,
or
murmuring
Israelites
)
have
been
kept
off
from
us
,
by
his
means
?
Has
he
lesse
often
than
the
former
Moses
,
conquered
his
enemies
,
more
by
his
own
prayers
,
than
his
souldiers
armes
?
Has
he
not
by
that
means
obtained
(
as
we
have
seen
)
a
secret
vertue
,
to
be
fastened
to
his
Standards
?
making
windes
and
tempests
to
fight
under
his
Ensign
,
that
we
may
almost
cry
out
with
the
Poet
,
Claud.
O
nimium
dilecte
Deo
,
&c.
How
often
has
he
opened
,
as
aforesaid
,
Lands
inaccessible
,
calmed
stormy
Seas
,
taken
Towns
impregnable
,
and
with
petit
handfuls
of
men
,
discomfited
huge
Armies
?
How
often
have
we
seen
him
(
give
me
leave
to
repeate
those
wonders
)
cleaving
of
Rocks
,
hewing
through
Mountains
,
and
to
do
the
works
of
Gyants
,
with
the
reputed
Pygmes
of
the
World
,
and
find
facility
in
all
that
humane
reason
conceived
impossible
?
And
how
,
I
say
again
,
could
all
this
be
,
but
that
the
Lord
could
no
more
deny
any
thing
to
the
prayer
of
this
his
dear
servant
,
and
favourite
,
our
second
,
than
he
could
to
the
former
Moses
?
His
fair
soul
,
was
no
whit
lesse
elevated
upon
the
pitch
of
highest
contemplations
,
from
his
very
infancy
,
than
the
former
great
Moses
was
.
His
high
soul
,
was
not
unlike
that
Ibis
,
the
stately
bird
of
Egypt
,
that
always
builds
her
nest
in
Palmes
:
So
it
was
perpetually
conversant
in
high
contemplations
,
and
had
no
more
impressions
of
earth
,
than
the
supream
Sphere
of
celestial
Bodies
.
Or
else
,
more
truly
yet
,
resembling
the
Palme-tree
it self
,
where
that
brave
Bird
builds
,
which
as
it
is
the
tallest
and
streightest
of
all
trees
,
so
beares
its
best
,
and
most
solid
strength
on
its
top
:
So
had
our
most
gracious
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
all
his
vigour
alwayes
in
God
,
and
for
God
.
His
life
was
a
perpetual
Sabbath
,
Sabathum
delicatum
,
a
delicious
Sabbath
,
as
the
Prophet
calls
it
,
nourishing
,
and
reposing
his
soul
,
with
the
constant
draught
of
this
holy
spirit
of
prayer
.
He
made
it
not
onely
his
lock
and
key
of
the
day
,
but
his
bolt
of
the
night
;
nor
onely
so
,
but
his
very
meales
,
and
recreations
;
and
all
that
,
his
Highnesse
did
,
more
in
a
becoming
silence
,
than
any
exteriour
ostent
,
resembling
those
Rivers
which
run
under
the
earth
,
choosing
to
steale
from
the
eyes
of
the
world
,
to
seek
for
the
sight
of
his
God
onely
;
So
his
Devotions
did
ever
study
solitude
and
retirements
,
and
were
alwayes
best
,
when
shut
up
within
themselves
.
Nay
,
farther
yet
,
after
the
example
of
a
greater
than
Moses
,
that
is
our
Blessed
Saviour
himself
,
he
used
to
spend
many
whole
nights
in
prayer
,
pernoctans
in
oratione
,
as
the
Scripture
expresseth
it
:
and
like
those
best
of
Christians
,
Luc.
in
the
Primitive
times
,
that
were
called
the
Crickets
of
the
night
,
because
at
any
time
,
if
some
interruption
of
sleep
happened
,
they
ever
made
it
out
,
with
ejaculatory
prayers
,
and
elevations
of
the
heart
.
Those
that
love
God
truly
,
will
have
recourse
to
him
,
at
all
hours
,
and
upon
all
occasions
,
not
confining
their
devotions
to
time
,
or
place
.
Jonas
,
and
the
three
Children
,
found
sufficient
Chappels
,
in
the
Whales
belly
,
and
the
fiery
Furnace
,
because
the
love
of
God
,
the
wisest
Architect
,
had
erected
them
,
and
the
Lord
was
as
near
them
,
in
the
intrails
of
a
Fish
,
or
the
midst
of
Flames
,
as
he
would
have
been
,
in
his
own
most
holy
Temple
.
In
fine
,
our
second
Moses
has
not
onely
reacht
after
the
former
,
as
we
have
already
seen
,
but
he
has
sum'd
up
all
example
,
to
perfect
himself
in
the
practise
of
this
Divine
duty
.
He
ever
distributed
his
fastings
,
watchings
,
prayer
,
repast
,
counsel
,
study
,
with
so
prudent
an
oeconomy
,
for
the
service
of
his
God
,
and
held
his
life
so
admirably
interlaced
,
between
action
,
and
contemplation
,
that
he
made
on
earth
,
a
perfect
figure
of
Angels
ascending
,
and
descending
,
receiving
already
a
tast
of
those
benefits
,
which
he
was
to
hope
for
,
in
the
other
;
insomuch
,
that
he
seemed
to
have
his
soul
in
Heaven
,
whilst
he
was
on
earth
,
to
understand
mysteries
,
and
enjoy
an
antipast
of
Paradise
it self
.
O
thrice
,
and
four
times
happy
were
we
,
if
we
could
have
,
known
our
own
happinesse
,
to
have
had
such
a
Person
set
over
us
,
by
God
,
and
his
own
Divine
vertues
,
that
had
so
clear
and
free
accesse
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
and
so
near
an
union
to
God
himself
,
as
a
finite
was
capable
of
,
with
an
infinite
,
and
might
be
stiled
,
as
the
former
Moses
was
,
The
familiar
friend
of
God
,
and
was
not
onely
alwayes
ready
,
to
stand
in
the
gap
,
between
us
,
and
the
Divine
vengeance
,
as
the
first
Moses
did
;
but
was
wont
to
storm
Heaven
for
us
,
and
pull
down
blessings
by
force
upon
us
,
though
we
were
a
most
ungrateful
,
and
undeserving
people
;
nor
so
onely
,
but
that
was
alwayes
ready
to
instruct
us
by
his
precept
,
as
well
as
practise
,
if
we
could
dare
to
follow
him
,
in
all
other
pieces
of
Piety
,
and
Divine
duty
;
as
we
have
in
part
seen
already
,
and
shall
more
at
large
in
the
next
succeeding
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
The
one
and
twentieth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
a
most
exemplary
Person
,
in
all
the
practical
parts
of
true
Piety
;
He
had
alwayes
so
reverend
,
and
faithful
a
feeling
of
the
Majesty
of
God
,
as
not
to
serve
him
,
with
exteriour
shews
,
and
semblances
onely
of
Religion
;
but
sincerely
,
cordially
,
Sap.
1.
and
constantly
,
Sentiendo
de
domino
in
bonitate
,
as
the
Book
of
Wisdom
describes
it
,
alwayes
thinking
on
the
Lord
,
with
a
true
good
heart
.
This
was
most
eminently
visible
in
the
whole
current
of
his
thorough
Religious
life
,
but
principally
remarkable
in
the
denial
of
himself
,
and
all
his
own
desires
,
when
any
thing
that
concerned
the
glory
of
his
God
lay
at
the
stake
,
or
was
called
into
the
least
question
,
submitting
alwayes
all
worldly
ends
,
and
humane
reluctancies
,
to
the
interests
of
Heaven
,
and
pure
Religion
.
Was
not
this
,
I
say
,
first
notorious
in
him
,
when
he
would
hazard
the
disoblidgement
of
his
wife
(
a
thing
that
men
ordinarily
fear
,
Exod.
4.25
.
more
than
a
disobedience
to
God
)
nay
would
incur
her
displeasure
so
far
,
as
to
be
thought
,
and
called
by
her
,
a
cruel
hard-hearted
person
,
and
a
bloody
husband
,
rather
than
omit
the
performance
of
one
Tittle
of
his
Almighty
Masters
commands
.
Nay
,
State
Policy
it self
,
which
now
adayes
is
held
to
be
almost
inconsistent
with
true
Piety
,
could
not
hinder
his
heroick
practise
of
piety
.
And
this
did
most
manifestly
appear
,
in
his
refusal
of
all
the
favours
that
Pharaohs
Court
,
Exod.
2.
or
his
daughters
countenance
,
could
afford
him
,
for
the
service
of
his
God
,
postponing
every
thing
of
his
own
affection
and
interests
,
to
the
zeal
for
his
Religion
,
and
the
quiet
of
a
good
conscience
.
This
is
,
I
say
,
a
most
remarkable
piece
of
Princely
piety
indeed
,
to
hold
all
the
Maxims
of
State
,
and
proper
interests
whatsoever
,
under
the
rules
of
Religion
,
and
Conscience
,
and
to
be
disposed
,
rather
to
hazard
all
,
than
to
lose
God
by
one
sole
sin
.
This
noble
Princely
piece
of
piety
,
to
its
perfection
,
both
of
profession
,
and
practise
,
our
great
Patriarch
shewed
in
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
loudly
proclaiming
,
and
as
strictly
observing
,
to
love
the
Lord
God
,
Exod.
Num.
Levit.
Deut.
with
the
whole
heart
,
and
him
onely
to
serve
,
which
no
man
can
do
,
that
mixeth
any
thing
of
humane
,
with
divine
obligations
;
that
is
but
to
serve
God
by
pieces
.
The
Parallel
.
We
have
alreay
gone
far
in
the
discourse
of
our
great
Patriarchs
,
and
his
happy
Parallel's
,
most
Princely
and
exemplary
piety
;
clearly
to
be
collected
from
the
visible
zeal
,
they
ever
bore
to
Gods
glory
,
and
devotions
to
his
Service
;
but
all
this
,
may
be
said
to
be
(
as
indeed
it
is
in
most
of
this
Age
)
but
a
meer
outside
onely
,
the
very
heart
and
marrow
of
Religion
consisting
in
the
interiour
,
which
we
can
make
no
other
judgement
of
,
than
by
the
apparent
practise
of
piety
,
true
godly
and
religious
lives
of
men
,
and
a
dutiful
submission
of
all
humane
interest
,
to
God
;
and
if
all
this
,
were
ever
eminent
in
any
Persons
,
it
has
been
in
these
two
great
Princes
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
.
Now
it
is
very
observable
,
that
all
this
Princely
practise
of
true
piety
,
is
but
an
effect
,
or
consequent
at
least
,
of
that
zeal
to
Gods
glory
,
before
spoken
of
,
and
of
that
precious
spirit
of
prayer
;
Thom.
Aquin
.
2
▪
2.
q.
32
▪
for
true
Devotion
,
as
the
great
Aquinas
has
described
it
,
is
nothing
but
a
prompt
will
to
the
service
of
God
;
his
words
are
these
,
Voluntas
quaedum
prompta
tradendi
se
ad
ea
,
quae
pertinent
ad
Dei
famulatum
:
a
very
prompt
,
and
affectionate
vivacity
in
things
,
which
concern
Gods
businesse
.
Nay
we
may
find
as
much
said
by
Porphyry
himself
a
Pagan
,
and
one
of
the
most
Atheistical
ones
,
Porphyrius
that
ever
lived
.
Deus
,
saith
he
,
omnium
pater
,
nullius
indiget
,
sed
nobis
est
bene
,
cum
eum
adoramus
,
ipsam
vitam
,
precent
ad
eum
facientes
,
per
inquisitionem
,
&
imitationem
,
de
ipso
:
that
is
,
God
the
Creator
,
and
Father
,
of
this
great
Universe
,
hath
no
need
at
all
of
our
service
,
but
it
is
our
good
to
honour
,
serve
,
and
adore
him
,
making
our
life
a
perpetual
prayer
to
him
,
by
a
diligent
inquiry
after
his
perfections
,
and
a
holy
imitation
of
his
vertues
.
All
this
,
holy
Augustin
,
the
Oracle
of
the
Latine
Church
,
recites
out
of
that
Heathen
,
to
teach
us
faith
from
the
Philosophy
of
the
most
perfidious
,
and
Religion
,
from
the
writings
of
the
most
irreligious
man
that
ever
lived
:
just
as
if
an
honest
man
,
should
pull
a
thing
stolne
,
out
of
a
Theeves
coffer
.
And
it
is
indeed
a
most
evident
truth
,
that
the
best
life
,
is
the
best
prayer
;
and
therefore
holy
Nazianzen
tells
us
,
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Nazian.
in
Jamb.
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
dumb
work
,
is
better
than
the
most
eloquent
Oration
;
a
golden
tongue
,
and
a
leaden
heart
seldom
march
together
:
yet
we
know
,
that
some
there
are
,
who
have
apparence
enough
of
the
spirit
,
and
will
pray
like
Angels
,
but
practise
like
Devils
,
resembling
the
Asse
in
the
Fable
,
that
carries
to
the
Hot-house
daily
,
wherewithal
to
shift
and
cleanse
others
,
and
yet
go
themselves
perpetually
bemired
and
slovenly
:
or
yet
more
truly
like
the
impertinent
drone
,
they
can
go
buzzing
up
and
down
with
their
empty
prayers
,
and
yet
neither
make
honey
,
nor
wax
.
To
what
purpose
,
in
the
mean
time
,
is
it
,
to
be
Vox
,
&
praeterea
nihil
?
to
warble
like
a
Nightingale
,
or
a
well-touch'd
Lute
,
and
to
be
deaf
to
all
harmony
?
Is
it
not
to
be
as
the
Apostle
tells
us
,
but
as
sounding
brasse
,
at
best
,
or
as
a
tinkling
symbal
?
Undoubtedly
,
all
the
devotion
of
a
soul
truly
Christian
,
tendeth
to
practise
,
as
the
line
to
its
center
;
and
therefore
holy
Cyprian
likewise
tells
us
,
Philosophi
factis
,
Cyprian
l.
de
patientia
.
non
verbis
sumus
,
nec
magna
loquimur
,
sed
vivimus
.
Our
Philosophy
,
and
Christian
wisdom
,
saith
he
,
is
a
prudence
of
workes
,
not
of
words
,
and
we
are
to
live
,
not
talke
great
things
.
We
should
march
in
our
Christian
warfare
,
like
the
brave
souldiers
of
Gideon
,
with
the
torch
in
our
hands
,
as
well
as
the
Trumpet
on
our
lips
:
and
therefore
it
was
said
of
the
great
and
holy
Athanasius
,
that
his
voice
was
a
Thunderclap
,
and
his
life
a
Lightning
flash
:
and
truly
words
,
let
them
be
never
so
good
,
can
never
thunder
well
,
if
the
living
example
enlighten
not
.
All
which
,
our
most
gracious
late
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
knew
full
well
,
and
practised
accordingly
,
in
imitation
of
his
great
Master
,
the
first
Moses
,
our
Princely
Patriarch
,
who
was
not
onely
ready
to
exercise
his
holy
spirit
of
prayer
,
in
the
behalf
of
,
and
for
his
people
,
but
also
to
make
practise
of
his
piety
before
them
,
to
inflame
their
lives
to
holinesse
and
charity
,
as
well
as
to
preserve
their
persons
in
peace
,
and
plenty
;
to
be
active
in
his
obedience
to
the
Almighties
will
,
as
well
as
outwardly
zealous
for
his
glory
.
Now
,
by
this
onely
it
is
plain
,
that
our
first
and
second
Moses
have
clearly
been
of
a
quite
contrary
Religion
,
to
Machiavel
,
before
cited
,
Mach.
Princ.
c.
2.
Decad.
c.
12.13
.
and
all
his
Crew
,
who
would
have
a
Prince
,
or
Statesman
,
practise
Religion
,
onely
according
to
the
necessity
of
their
affairs
,
and
to
learn
how
they
may
sometimes
be
wicked
,
that
is
,
to
make
shew
of
Religion
,
and
honesty
,
so
far
forth
as
may
serve
their
turns
;
but
in
very
deed
,
to
be
compleat
knaves
.
Every
man
in
power
forsooth
,
must
be
a
Hypocrite
,
his
face
alwayes
maskt
,
and
the
vizard
too
,
ought
to
be
more
lovely
,
than
the
visage
,
he
must
make
his
apparencies
better
than
his
substance
,
and
court
opinion
,
more
than
conscience
.
O
rare
Machiavillian
divinty
,
and
very
pious
policy
!
But
our
Patriarch
Moses
,
(
a
wiser
man
sure
,
than
a
million
of
Machiavels
)
we
find
,
was
clean
of
another
opinion
,
as
well
as
practise
too
;
he
understood
sufficiently
,
how
the
Lord
Almighty
had
ever
reproved
,
condemned
,
and
chastised
,
with
a
most
particular
indignation
of
his
heart
,
that
abominable
plaistered
kind
of
life
in
Princes
,
as
well
as
common
people
;
and
therefore
he
ordered
in
his
Law
,
that
the
Swan
,
and
the
Ostrich
,
should
never
be
made
use
of
,
in
Divine
Sacrifices
.
Levit.
11.18
.
Upon
which
Mosaical
ordinance
,
all
the
Interpreters
of
Scripture
,
are
joyntly
of
opinion
,
that
the
Swan
was
first
rejected
,
notwithstanding
the
whitenesse
of
her
feathers
,
and
sweetnesse
of
note
,
so
much
ascribed
to
her
;
because
under
those
pure
white
plumes
,
she
hides
so
black
a
flesh
.
Then
for
the
Ostrich
,
which
carries
onely
an
ostentuous
boast
of
fair
large
wings
,
and
very
little
or
no
flight
at
all
,
she
could
never
be
admitted
into
the
number
of
Divine
victims
:
so
much
the
Lord
abhors
apparencies
,
fruitlesse
,
and
effectlesse
.
Now
,
I
would
very
fain
know
of
all
those
pitiful
Politicians
,
who
pursue
like
Machiavillian
Maxims
,
with
such
corrupt
hypocritical
spirits
,
as
the
Florentine
proposeth
,
what
they
will
answer
me
further
upon
this
Ascent
of
our
Moses
,
and
his
Parallel
?
For
the
first
,
it
is
clear
,
that
if
he
had
been
to
choose
and
cherish
,
onely
a
Religion
,
that
suited
best
with
State
policy
,
or
temporal
designs
,
it
had
been
much
more
prudence
in
him
,
to
have
joyned
himself
with
the
Religion
of
Egypt
,
and
to
have
been
associated
with
the
Magicians
themselves
,
than
to
have
kept
so
close
to
the
Commandments
of
God
.
And
if
he
had
been
to
value
his
private
interest
,
before
his
honesty
,
and
conscience
,
sure
the
powerful
favours
of
a
great
Kings
Court
,
and
more
inticing
importunities
of
a
Princesse
,
would
have
been
greater
attractives
to
his
ambition
,
than
a
poor
,
simple
,
Shepherds
life
,
in
a
Desart
.
Nay
,
before
we
approach
our
precious
Parallel
Moses
,
what
can
they
,
I
mean
the
Disciples
of
that
wise
Secretary
,
say
,
to
another
glorious
Countryman
of
ours
,
one
of
the
most
Christian
,
and
Victorious
Princes
,
that
ever
swayed
a
Scepter
,
and
that
was
Constantine
the
Great
?
First
we
shall
find
upon
a
clear
account
,
twelve
or
thirteen
great
Persons
,
at
that
very
time
,
all
arguing
upon
the
Diadem
of
the
Empire
with
him
.
Now
,
if
there
had
been
any
necessity
for
him
to
dispoile
himself
of
honesty
,
and
innocency
,
that
he
might
be
invested
with
the
Crown
,
and
Pall
imperial
,
Why
did
he
take
the
way
of
the
Empire
,
by
that
of
sanctity
?
If
use
must
be
made
of
Religion
onely
as
of
an
Instrument
of
State
,
and
that
alone
to
be
taken
up
,
which
hath
the
greatest
vogue
,
and
credit
,
in
the
opinion
of
the
people
,
be
it
right
,
or
wrong
;
Why
went
he
about
then
to
fix
himself
upon
Christian
Religion
,
and
at
that
very
time
,
when
the
greatest
part
of
the
World
,
was
ingulpht
in
Gentilisme
?
We
see
how
Maxentius
,
like
a
miserable
Machiavillian
,
courted
that
interest
,
and
according
to
the
ordinary
custom
of
the
people
of
Rome
,
caused
all
the
pretended
Books
of
the
Sybylls
,
to
be
turned
over
,
consulted
with
the
Augures
,
and
Aruspices
,
and
accordingly
offered
sacrifices
to
his
Pagan
gods
:
all
this
gave
him
a
reputation
of
piety
,
with
a
people
then
as
Infidel
as
himself
.
Why
did
not
our
Constantine
pursue
the
same
politick
wayes
?
Why
did
he
fix
the
sign
of
the
Crosse
upon
his
Standards
,
which
was
enough
too
,
to
disoblige
his
own
Army
,
that
very
figure
,
being
then
esteemed
most
fatal
,
and
of
an
ill
presage
,
by
the
most
part
of
the
World
?
Moreover
,
what
help
or
succour
could
he
possibly
expect
,
from
the
poor
Christians
at
that
time
?
Had
he
a
Design
to
extract
Treasures
from
their
coffers
?
they
were
most
wretchedly
poor
,
and
dispoiled
of
all
possession
.
Was
he
of
opinion
,
that
he
might
raise
huge
Armies
of
them
,
for
his
service
?
they
were
so
daily
cut
down
,
that
they
were
scarce
visible
at
all
:
one
onely
moneth
,
not
long
before
,
saw
seventeen
thousand
heads
of
them
lopt
off
,
and
tumbling
upon
the
ground
?
How
could
he
perswade
himself
,
that
there
was
any
considerable
humane
strength
in
their
Religion
,
when
they
were
all
either
massacred
,
mained
,
or
banished
?
Could
he
look
for
counsel
amongst
them
?
they
were
men
of
no
esteem
at
all
in
the
World
,
and
thought
utterly
void
of
all
learning
and
policy
.
Was
it
any
credit
,
that
he
could
expect
they
might
confer
upon
his
Cause
?
they
were
most
despicable
creatures
,
and
trampled
underfoot
by
every
body
,
like
dirt
in
the
streets
,
reputed
meer
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Apostle
tells
us
,
as
the
dung
,
and
off-scouring
of
the
world
.
Behold
here
a
piece
of
State-prudence
,
fit
onely
for
the
pens
of
Angels
,
whereunto
the
brains
,
and
wit
,
of
this
pitiful
Florentine
,
could
never
arrive
:
his
cunning
alas
could
reach
no
further
,
than
some
petit
humane
tracts
,
indeed
meer
knacks
of
Atheistical
knavery
.
This
is
a
light
,
whereat
all
the
blear'd
eyes
of
those
buzards
are
dazled
.
This
is
an
Abysse
wherein
all
carnal
men
are
quite
lost
,
and
swallowed
up
:
For
we
find
that
our
Great
Constantines
prudence
,
grounded
upon
Divine
providence
,
and
his
own
piety
,
has
conducted
him
to
the
Soveraignity
of
the
Empire
of
the
whole
World
,
by
degrees
,
utterly
different
from
those
,
which
Mr.
Machiavel
hath
prepared
to
lead
his
Prince
in
.
On
the
other
side
,
do
but
look
a
little
on
his
son-in-law
Julian
,
coming
to
the
Empire
,
and
holding
it
by
Machiavillian
Rules
onely
,
how
well
did
he
prosper
in
his
policies
?
who
meerly
out
of
spite
to
the
Christians
,
not
any
affection
,
to
the
Jews
,
indeed
to
baffle
Christianity
it self
,
resolved
to
re-edifie
the
Temple
of
Jerusalem
,
and
to
that
purpose
issued
out
a
Commission
,
to
an
Infidel
like
himself
,
one
called
Alippius
:
but
mark
how
his
Machiavillian
plot
succeeded
,
Balls
of
fire
were
seen
to
issue
out
of
the
very
foundations
,
as
fast
as
they
laid
them
,
which
made
their
design
as
frivolous
,
as
the
place
was
inaccessible
:
after
all
this
observe
what
became
of
him
,
he
reigned
but
one
year
,
&
seven
moneths
,
and
then
died
struck
with
a
blow
from
Heaven
,
which
the
Pagans
themselves
confesse
to
be
ignorant
,
of
from
whence
it
came
:
howsoever
,
this
is
most
certain
,
that
he
died
perfectly
phrenetick
,
which
caused
him
to
fill
his
hand
with
his
own
blood
,
and
cry
out
,
Thou
hast
overcome
,
O
Galilaean
,
and
so
dying
,
has
left
a
memory
so
odious
behind
him
,
that
it
stinkes
still
,
and
so
for
ever
will
,
to
all
Posterity
.
I
might
be
infinit
,
if
I
should
run
over
all
the
examples
,
that
we
have
before
us
,
of
such
impious
Politicians
,
who
have
made
all
the
interests
of
God
,
and
Religion
,
subservient
to
their
own
base
ends
.
Great
Volumes
might
be
written
of
their
miserable
mortalities
,
which
make
all
Theaters
at
this
day
to
resound
,
and
Tragedians
to
deplore
.
I
shall
onely
now
therefore
produce
our
Parallel
,
to
convince
all
those
pitiful
Politicians
,
of
the
Machiavillian
make
,
and
so
conclude
this
discourse
.
Did
ever
any
person
so
contradict
all
the
Maxims
of
humane
wisdom
,
and
struggle
with
,
and
against
,
all
proper
interests
,
as
our
second
Moses
has
done
?
If
it
had
not
been
for
his
obligations
to
God
,
true
Religion
and
a
pure
conscience
,
what
madnesse
must
it
needs
have
appeared
in
his
Highnesse
,
to
have
still
been
opposite
to
all
prevalent
parties
,
which
in
plain
humane
probabilities
,
would
have
destroyed
him
,
and
us
?
As
first
,
the
late
King
,
and
his
corrupted
Court
;
Then
the
Kirk
,
and
all
its
Consistorians
;
Then
the
violent
levelling
Parties
within
his
own
body
,
and
all
the
men
of
mettal
,
forsooth
,
that
were
for
the
fifth
Monarchy
;
Then
the
long-lived
(
as
his
Highnesse
himself
used
to
call
it
)
long-reigning
,
and
indeed
,
ruining
Parliament
,
with
all
its
appertinencies
,
and
divers
others
since
,
that
,
it
may
be
,
had
the
same
,
or
worse
designs
.
Good
God
,
with
what
wonder
,
and
amazement
am
I
seized
,
when
I
consider
the
dangerous
difficulties
,
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
has
encountred
,
for
the
honour
and
glory
of
his
God
,
the
good
of
this
ungrateful
people
,
and
the
satisfaction
of
his
own
conscience
,
upon
grounds
utterly
unpolitick
,
as
to
humane
apprehension
,
and
clearly
contradictory
,
to
his
proper
interests
.
This
high
towering
Eagle
,
as
we
have
seen
,
winged
onely
with
Piety
,
and
Religion
,
from
the
very
first
time
that
he
was
called
forth
into
action
,
to
this
very
day
,
could
never
be
found
(
as
aforesaid
)
beating
of
his
wings
,
in
those
lower
Regions
of
the
air
,
conversing
with
those
pitiful
humane
policies
,
but
borne
,
I
say
alwayes
,
upon
those
heavenly
wings
aforesaid
;
soared
alwayes
amongst
lightnings
themselves
,
tempests
,
and
whirlewindes
,
and
ever
had
his
eye
,
where
the
day
broke
;
that
was
,
on
God
,
the
Fountain
of
Light
,
and
his
own
conscience
,
the
sure
Orient
of
all
his
pious
actions
.
The
great
Secretaries
of
Nature
,
do
observe
further
,
of
that
brave
Bird
,
I
mean
the
Eagle
,
that
her
feathers
,
are
so
imperious
,
that
they
will
not
mix
,
with
the
plumage
of
other
Birds
,
if
they
are
by
chance
cast
in
amongst
them
;
they
will
strait
consume
the
others
,
as
with
a
dull
file
:
and
can
the
Lord
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
who
is
an
incomparable
wisdom
,
a
store
of
riches
inexhaustible
,
a
purity
infinite
,
be
mingled
with
such
feeble
pretensions
,
as
those
of
humane
interests
?
which
can
have
nothing
but
phrensy
for
beginning
,
misery
for
inheritance
,
and
impurity
for
ornament
?
Our
Mosaical
Protector
therefore
,
was
ever
seen
,
to
separate
himself
,
from
his
self
,
denying
his
own
desires
,
disowning
his
own
glories
,
and
adhering
onely
to
the
interests
of
God
,
and
giving
the
honour
of
all
his
actions
to
him
;
as
we
may
hear
his
Highnesse
yet
speaking
for
himself
,
in
a
printed
Speech
of
his
,
to
a
late
Parliament
.
It
was
,
say
some
,
the
cunning
of
the
Lord
Protector
(
I
take
it
to
my self
)
it
was
the
craft
of
such
a
man
,
and
his
plot
that
hath
brought
it
about
.
And
as
they
say
,
in
other
Countries
:
There
are
five
or
six
cunning
men
in
England
,
that
have
skill
,
they
do
all
these
things
:
Oh
what
Blasphemy
is
this
!
&c.
Because
men
that
are
without
God
in
the
world
,
and
walk
not
with
him
,
and
know
not
what
it
is
to
pray
,
or
believe
,
and
to
receive
returns
from
God
,
and
to
be
spoken
unto
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
who
speaks
without
a
written
Word
sometimes
,
yet
according
to
it
:
God
hath
spoken
heretofore
in
divers
manners
,
let
him
speak
as
he
pleaseth
.
Hath
he
not
given
us
liberty
?
nay
,
is
it
not
our
duty
to
go
to
the
Law
,
and
to
the
Testimonies
?
and
there
we
shall
find
,
that
there
have
been
impressions
in
extraordinary
cases
,
as
well
without
the
written
Word
,
as
with
it
,
and
therefore
there
is
no
difference
in
the
thing
thus
asserted
,
from
truths
generally
received
,
except
we
will
exclude
the
Spirit
,
without
whose
concurrence
,
all
other
Teachings
are
ineffectual
;
He
doth
speak
to
the
Hearts
and
Consciences
of
men
,
and
leadeth
them
to
his
Law
and
Testimonies
,
and
there
he
speaks
to
them
,
and
so
gives
them
double
teachings
,
according
to
that
of
Job
,
God
speaketh
once
,
yea
twice
;
and
that
of
David
,
God
hath
spoken
once
,
yea
twice
have
I
heard
this
.
Those
men
that
live
upon
their
Mumpsimus
and
Sumpsimus
,
their
Masses
and
Service-Books
,
their
dead
and
carnal
Worship
,
no
marvel
if
they
be
strangers
to
God
,
and
the
works
of
God
,
and
to
spiritual
dispensations
.
And
because
they
say
,
and
believe
thus
,
must
we
do
so
too
?
we
in
this
Land
have
been
otherwise
instructed
,
even
by
the
Word
,
and
Workes
,
and
Spirit
of
God
.
To
say
that
men
bring
forth
these
things
,
when
God
doth
them
judge
you
if
God
will
bear
this
.
I
wish
that
every
sober
heart
,
though
he
hath
had
temptations
upon
him
of
deserting
this
CAVSE
of
God
,
yet
may
take
heed
how
he
provokes
,
and
falles
into
the
hands
of
the
living
God
by
such
blasphemies
as
these
,
according
to
the
tenth
of
the
Hebrews
,
If
we
sin
wilfully
after
we
have
received
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
there
remains
no
more
sacrifice
for
sin
.
(
It
was
spoken
to
the
Jews
,
that
having
professed
Christ
,
apostatized
from
him
)
what
then
?
nothing
but
a
fearful
falling
into
the
hands
of
the
Living
God
.
They
that
shall
attribute
to
this
or
that
Person
,
the
contrivances
and
production
of
those
mighty
things
God
hath
wrought
in
the
midst
of
us
,
and
that
they
have
not
been
the
revolutions
of
Christ
himself
,
upon
whose
Shoulders
the
GOVERNMENT
is
laid
,
they
speak
against
God
,
and
they
fall
under
his
hand
without
a
Mediator
,
that
is
,
if
we
deny
the
Spirit
of
Jesus
Christ
,
the
glory
of
all
his
works
in
the
World
,
by
which
he
Rules
Kingdoms
,
and
doth
administer
,
and
is
the
Rod
of
his
strength
,
we
provoke
the
Mediator
;
And
he
may
say
,
I
'le
leave
you
to
God
,
I
'le
not
intercede
for
you
,
let
him
tear
you
to
pieces
,
I
'le
leave
thee
to
fall
into
Gods
hands
,
thou
deniest
me
my
Soveraignty
and
Power
committed
to
me
,
I
'le
not
intercede
nor
mediate
for
thee
,
thou
fallest
into
the
hands
of
the
Living
God
.
Therefore
whatsoever
you
may
judge
men
,
for
,
and
say
,
This
man
is
cunning
,
and
politick
,
and
subtile
,
take
heed
,
again
I
say
,
how
you
judge
of
his
Revolutions
,
as
the
Products
of
mens
inventions
.
Then
,
how
much
he
valued
the
interests
of
God
,
and
his
influence
upon
all
his
actions
,
we
may
see
what
he
sayes
in
the
same
Speech
.
—
and
were
it
not
that
I
can
make
some
Dilemma's
upon
which
to
resolve
some
things
of
my
Conscience
,
Judgement
,
and
Actions
,
I
should
sinck
at
the
very
prospect
of
my
Encounters
;
some
of
them
are
general
,
some
are
more
special
,
supposing
this
Cause
,
or
this
Businesse
,
must
be
carried
on
,
either
it
is
of
God
,
or
of
Man
,
if
it
be
of
Man
,
I
would
I
had
never
touched
it
with
a
finger
;
if
I
had
not
had
a
hope
fixed
in
Me
that
this
Cause
,
and
this
Businesse
is
of
God
,
I
would
many
years
ago
have
run
from
it
.
If
it
be
of
God
,
he
will
bear
it
up
.
If
it
be
of
Man
,
it
will
tumble
,
as
every
thing
that
hath
been
of
man
,
since
the
World
began
,
hath
done
.
And
what
are
all
our
Histories
,
and
other
Traditions
of
actions
in
former
times
,
but
God
manifesting
himself
that
he
hath
shaken
and
tumbled
down
,
and
trampled
upon
,
every
thing
that
he
hath
not
planted
?
and
as
this
is
,
so
the
All-wise
God
deal
with
it
.
If
this
be
of
humane
Structure
,
and
Invention
,
and
it
be
an
old
Plotting
and
Contrivance
to
bring
things
to
this
Issue
,
and
that
they
are
not
the
Births
of
Providence
,
then
they
will
tumble
.
But
if
the
Lord
take
pleasure
in
England
,
and
if
he
will
do
Us
good
,
he
is
able
to
bear
us
up
;
Let
the
difficulties
be
whatsoever
they
will
,
we
shall
in
his
Strength
be
able
to
encounter
with
them
.
And
I
blesse
God
I
have
been
inured
to
Difficulties
,
and
I
never
found
God
failing
when
I
trusted
in
him
;
I
can
laugh
and
sing
in
my
heart
when
I
speak
of
these
things
to
you
,
or
elsewhere
.
Here
is
a
piece
of
Divine
Policy
indeed
,
and
fetcht
doubtlesse
from
the
Gates
of
the
City
of
God
.
Thus
was
his
late
Mosaical
Highnesse
alwayes
pleading
,
to
acknowledge
the
truth
of
that
most
excellent
Maxim
,
delivered
by
Augustin
,
August
.
lib.
3.
de
libero
Arbit
.
c.
24
Cui
bonum
non
est
Deus
,
sibi
ipsi
vult
esse
bonum
suum
,
sicut
sibi
est
Deus
,
He
that
holds
not
God
for
his
greatest
good
,
would
be
to
himself
his
own
good
,
as
God
is
to
himself
:
He
that
thinks
to
escape
from
the
bands
of
dependance
,
that
he
has
on
God
,
makes
himself
his
own
blessing
,
and
his
end
his
God
.
His
Highnesse
therefore
so
constantly
steer'd
himself
,
and
all
his
actions
;
by
his
obedience
to
Divine
Commands
,
that
he
chose
alwayes
to
perish
with
a
good
conscience
,
rather
than
to
flourish
without
one
;
and
though
he
was
from
the
very
beginning
,
like
a
pure
Oriental
Pearle
in
the
salt-sea
,
so
continually
involved
in
the
cruel
acerbities
,
and
confusions
of
our
times
,
yet
he
alwayes
kept
his
Noble
luster
,
in
then
midst
of
them
,
and
by
his
invincible
affection
toward
,
and
confidence
in
,
his
God
,
he
arose
still
from
them
,
with
more
and
more
splendour
,
and
made
all
those
his
perplexities
which
threatned
him
with
many
an
imminent
ruin
,
but
higher
ascents
and
steps
to
the
Temple
of
glory
.
Vertue
and
Piety
,
he
always
compared
to
,
and
took
for
,
the
Geometrical
Cube
of
his
life
,
which
we
know
in
Mathematicks
,
on
what
side
soever
it
be
cast
,
alwayes
finds
its
Basis
.
Where
are
you
now
,
all
you
,
I
say
,
who
are
the
pitiful
followers
of
Nicholas
Machiavells
policy
,
poor
tricks
of
carnal
wisdom
?
What
will
become
now
of
all
your
mighty
Maxims
of
hypocritical
knavery
?
Let
this
one
example
onely
of
our
Christian
Moses
,
parallel
to
that
of
his
Great
Master
,
the
Patriarch
,
which
we
have
seen
in
his
Ascent
,
serve
now
for
all
,
to
inform
you
,
That
there
are
none
,
but
such
as
are
perfectly
blind
,
that
seek
after
your
Principles
,
and
miserable
they
must
be
,
who
find
them
,
the
sottish
who
will
descend
to
serve
them
,
and
the
utterly
reprobate
,
and
forlorne
,
who
can
stoope
to
tye
themselves
unto
them
:
but
the
wisdom
that
is
of
Heaven
,
our
Mosaical
wisdom
,
is
so
transcendently
sublime
,
above
all
your
untrue
and
trivial
inventions
,
as
the
light
of
Stars
surpasseth
all
the
sparklings
and
petit
sprey
fiers
of
the
Earth
.
And
though
such
humane
interests
and
designs
,
may
possibly
,
and
will
still
,
hold
the
Ascendent
in
the
hearts
of
some
sort
of
people
;
yet
we
finde
,
how
my
Lords
,
high
,
holy
,
Mosaical
spirit
,
could
no
more
than
that
of
his
Grand
Archetype
,
condescend
to
steer
his
course
,
or
counsells
that
way
;
nor
yet
more
,
than
those
Angels
,
now
standing
in
glory
,
follow
the
example
of
those
Luciferian
spirits
,
which
fell
by
such
Machiavillian
counsells
,
into
the
pit
of
Perdition
.
No
,
our
most
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
,
Genes.
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
,
Exod.
Levit.
Num.
Deut.
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
,
Num.
12.7
,
8.
and
that
with
him
,
he
would
speak
mouth
to
mouth
,
even
apparently
,
and
not
in
dark
speeches
,
and
the
similitude
of
the
Lord
,
Deut.
34.10
.
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
,
Deut.
18.15
.
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
,
Acts
3.22
.
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
;
Acts
7.37
.
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
,
Clem.
Alexand.
Eusebius
.
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
,
Homer
.
Odyss.
l.
11.
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
,
Ovid.
Metam
.
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
,
Homer
.
Hesiod
.
Linus
.
Hesiod
,
and
Linus
,
must
undoubtedly
have
borrowed
from
his
Books
,
all
that
they
said
of
sanctifying
the
seventh
day
.
The
Golden
Age
,
and
Reign
of
Saturn
,
was
gathered
as
certainly
from
the
most
happy
estate
,
wherein
Adam
was
before
he
sinned
.
Nay
,
Orpheus
yet
ancienter
than
any
of
them
,
confesseth
,
Orpheus
.
that
he
learnt
divers
thing
,
as
we
have
shewed
before
,
from
the
Doctrine
of
Moses
,
mentioning
,
as
we
have
shewed
in
our
Ascent
,
his
very
Tables
,
&c.
Well
might
they
then
have
the
reputation
of
Prophets
amongst
the
Heathens
,
who
lookt
with
as
much
reverence
upon
the
Theogony
of
Hesiod
,
as
we
Christians
do
upon
the
Genealogy
of
Jesus
Christ
;
they
valued
Homers
Illiads
as
highly
,
as
we
possibly
can
the
Books
of
the
Gospel
,
and
had
as
great
a
respect
to
the
Apothegm's
of
Pythagoras
,
as
we
can
have
to
the
Commandments
of
God
.
Let
them
passe
on
then
with
their
reputation
of
Prophets
still
,
especially
since
St.
Paul
himself
,
is
pleased
to
afford
it
to
them
,
saying
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Tit.
1.12
,
13.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
one
of
themselves
,
even
a
Prophet
of
their
own
said
,
The
Cretians
are
alwayes
lyars
,
evil
beasts
,
flow
bellies
:
then
asserts
their
witnesse
to
be
true
,
and
that
is
rare
indeed
for
Poets
,
one
would
think
.
Well
,
a
most
Noble
,
and
inspired
faculty
,
yea
Prophesie
it self
,
let
Poetry
be
;
for
truly
,
I
think
,
a
man
may
be
born
to
one
,
as
well
as
the
other
:
But
,
what
is
this
to
our
late
Great
Protector
,
who
never
dealt
in
any
such
trivial
Arts
,
say
some
of
our
Misomusi
?
No
,
my
Lord
never
esteemed
that
honourable
,
and
illustrious
Art
full
of
Divine
fury
,
after
that
manner
,
though
it
may
be
,
his
greater
occupations
could
not
permit
him
the
practise
of
it
:
he
ever
had
a
most
reverent
esteem
of
so
Divine
a
profession
,
when
regulated
after
the
true
Divine
way
,
and
was
a
most
magnificent
Mecaenas
to
its
professors
.
For
the
Profession
,
Aristot
.
Bembus
.
Scaliger
.
he
believed
with
Aristotle
,
that
it
was
the
Treasury
of
the
Graecian
Divinity
;
and
with
Bembus
,
that
it
was
the
first
bringer
in
of
all
Civility
,
and
with
Scaliger
,
that
no
Philosophers
precepts
can
so
soon
make
an
honest
,
and
a
valiant
good
man
,
as
the
reading
of
Virgil
,
&c.
Then
for
the
Professours
,
Was
there
ever
a
more
bountiful
Benefactor
,
than
he
has
been
to
all
the
vertuous
persons
of
it
?
To
instance
in
one
for
all
;
What
obliging
favours
has
he
cast
upon
our
English
Virgil
here
(
I
mean
Mr.
Edm.
Waller
)
and
meerly
for
that
,
and
his
other
vertues
,
having
in
some
other
relations
,
little
capacity
enough
to
deserve
them
.
My
Lord
has
sufficiently
shewed
his
own
most
excellent
judgement
in
Poetry
,
by
his
approbation
and
election
of
him
,
to
be
the
object
of
his
great
goodnesse
,
who
is
clearly
one
of
the
ablest
,
and
most
flourishing
wits
,
that
ever
handled
a
pen
,
and
he
does
it
,
with
that
natural
dexterity
and
promptnesse
,
as
if
he
had
begun
to
write
,
so
soon
as
to
live
;
and
whosoever
considers
the
worth
of
his
Writings
,
cannot
but
wonder
,
how
so
many
graces
and
beauties
,
which
others
labour
for
,
and
never
attain
to
,
encrease
in
him
,
as
in
a
soil
natural
for
wit
and
eloquence
;
If
he
goes
about
to
translate
any
thing
,
the
dead
Authors
themselves
are
ready
to
rise
out
of
their
graves
,
and
request
him
to
exchange
his
Englished
Copies
,
for
their
Originals
.
In
all
his
own
things
,
his
conceptions
are
unimitable
,
his
language
so
sweet
and
polite
,
that
no
Ice
can
be
smoother
;
his
sentences
are
alwayes
full
of
weight
,
his
arguments
of
force
,
and
his
words
glide
along
like
a
river
,
and
bear
perpetually
in
them
,
some
flashes
of
lightning
,
at
the
end
of
each
period
.
He
perfectly
knows
how
to
vary
his
eloquence
upon
all
occasions
,
to
be
facetious
in
pleasing
arguments
,
grave
in
severe
,
polite
in
laborious
,
and
when
the
subject
requires
fervor
and
invective
,
his
mouth
can
speak
tempests
;
In
short
,
he
is
the
wonder
of
Wits
,
the
pattern
of
Poets
,
the
mirrour
of
Orators
in
our
Age.
All
this
I
say
of
him
,
not
so
much
out
of
design
to
applaud
him
,
as
to
adore
the
judgement
of
our
great
Augustus
,
who
alwayes
chose
him
out
,
and
crowned
him
for
the
Virgil
of
this
Nation
;
but
his
favours
likewise
were
extended
most
liberally
,
to
all
those
that
did
deserve
them
,
either
here
,
or
in
either
of
his
Universities
:
He
was
a
perfect
Philomusus
,
and
why
not
by
that
,
qualified
for
a
Poetical
Prophet
?
the
father
having
,
at
least
,
or
ought
to
have
,
an
equal
portion
,
with
the
children
of
the
Prophets
.
And
so
I
passe
to
the
second
sort
of
Prophets
,
that
is
,
of
our
Prudent
and
Political
ones
,
commonly
called
Statesmen
,
who
indeed
must
foresee
futurities
too
,
or
they
can
never
order
their
affairs
aright
;
for
if
they
look
not
into
all
casualties
of
inconvenience
,
how
shall
they
be
ever
able
to
prevent
them
?
And
Seneca
very
wisely
forewarns
all
Statesmen
,
Senec.
Epist.
24.
of
the
necessity
of
this
foresight
of
all
futurities
,
when
he
tells
them
,
that
they
are
bound
Quicquid
fieri
potest
,
quasi
futurum
cogitare
,
To
conceive
,
that
all
things
may
,
that
can
come
to
passe
.
And
therefore
Josephus
,
that
Learned
Jew
,
Joseph
de
Bell
Jud.
l.
2.
tells
us
most
judiciously
also
,
that
Bonum
est
,
dum
adhuc
stat
navis
in
portu
,
praecavere
tempestatem
futuram
,
&
non
eo
tempore
,
quo
in
medias
irrueris
procellas
,
trepidare
:
It
is
necessary
for
him
that
goes
to
Sea
,
to
foresee
a
storm
coming
,
if
he
can
,
and
not
to
rush
into
the
fury
of
the
Seas
;
and
tremble
at
the
tempest
afterwards
;
that
will
a
vail
little
,
but
for
to
be
rendered
ridiculous
for
his
own
rashnesse
.
This
holds
altogether
as
true
in
him
,
that
holdes
the
Helme
of
a
Kingdom
,
or
Common-wealth
,
as
in
any
Pilot
of
a
Ship
whatsoever
.
By
this
it
may
be
collected
,
how
hugely
necessary
it
is
for
a
Prince
,
or
Supreme
Magistrate
,
to
hold
a
constant
communication
with
God
,
without
whose
Divine
assistance
,
it
is
impossible
to
manage
State
matters
well
,
as
we
have
partly
shewed
already
:
by
his
Divine
inspirations
onely
it
must
be
,
that
they
can
prophesie
upon
affairs
,
as
they
should
.
Xenoph.
de
instit.
Cyr.
Therefore
that
great
Statesman
Xenophon
,
who
drew
so
well
the
portraiture
of
a
perfect
Empire
,
tells
us
,
that
Tam
erit
arduum
prescribere
quae
facienda
sunt
,
quam
futura
omnia
praescire
,
quod
solius
Dei
est
,
&
majus
conditione
mortali
:
It
is
as
difficult
to
prescribe
what
is
to
be
done
in
State-businesses
,
as
to
foreknow
all
futurities
,
which
is
proper
to
God
alone
,
and
above
the
reach
of
all
Mortals
:
and
yet
this
,
that
is
so
hard
a
task
,
is
imposed
upon
Princes
:
So
that
great
Statist
proceeds
,
Ecce
aliquid
Dei
,
sic
Princeps
sustinebit
,
in
ventura
scilicet
excurrere
,
qui
ut
sibi
constet
,
sufficiatque
,
primum
consiliis
&
conatibus
suis
,
à
Deo
fulcrum
prudentiae
&
sapientiae
jugiter
flagitabit
,
nam
illa
quae
capite
humano
tantum
stat
,
infirma
est
&
incauta
quaedam
temeritas
,
ad
nullam
autem
Provinciam
erit
inhabilis
,
ad
nullam
virtutem
indocilis
,
qui
pietatem
didicerit
,
numinisque
cultum
.
Behold
here
,
saith
he
,
how
a
Prince
must
of
necessity
have
more
than
ordinary
of
God
in
him
,
to
have
an
insight
into
the
events
of
things
,
and
to
discourse
upon
futurities
;
which
true
spirit
of
prophesie
,
that
he
may
have
,
that
he
may
be
constant
to
himself
,
and
stable
in
his
counsels
,
he
is
perpetually
to
seek
that
capacity
,
and
support
from
God
;
for
the
greatest
wit
of
man
,
of
it self
,
will
be
nothing
but
temerity
;
but
he
that
is
a
true
servant
of
Gods
,
and
delights
in
his
worship
,
shall
be
so
inspired
,
as
to
be
able
to
encounter
all
extremities
of
State
,
and
difficulties
of
affaires
whatsoever
.
It
were
now
to
be
wisht
,
that
our
Christian
Kings
and
Princes
,
would
study
and
practise
some
of
these
religious
Pagans
admirable
Divinity
,
though
they
will
not
strive
to
mount
up
our
Mosaical
Ascents
,
as
his
late
most
Serence
Highnesse
has
done
,
by
which
he
has
arrived
,
as
we
have
seen
,
to
the
perfection
of
this
Political
spirit
of
prophesie
.
The
wise
Philosopher
assures
us
,
Seneca
.
that
Sapiens
non
semper
it
uno
gradu
,
sed
una
via
:
A
prudent
person
,
keeps
not
alwayes
one
pace
,
though
still
one
and
the
same
way
,
by
which
way
,
he
must
unquestionably
mean
,
this
Divine
and
prophetick
way
,
this
way
of
dependance
upon
God
,
in
all
his
counsels
;
for
no
way
else
can
be
one
,
all
humane
wayes
being
various
and
uncertain
,
as
has
been
sufficiently
shewed
in
our
precedent
discourses
,
together
with
my
Lords
,
our
second
Moses
his
,
as
the
firsts
great
relations
to
the
Lord
in
all
their
affairs
;
so
I
may
hold
my
hand
now
,
from
any
further
enlargement
upon
their
prophetical
Policies
:
but
conclude
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
,
was
a
most
compleat
Prophet
in
this
sense
also
.
So
now
,
we
come
to
the
third
and
last
acception
of
Prophets
,
and
that
is
the
true
one
indeed
,
the
Divine
Prophets
,
I
mean
,
immediately
illuminated
by
God
,
as
our
first
Moses
was
,
and
had
free
and
frequent
conversation
with
the
Deity
,
even
to
the
enjoyment
of
him
face
to
face
.
Of
this
sort
of
Prophets
,
we
find
a
distinction
likewise
in
Scripture
,
and
they
are
termed
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
either
Videntes
,
or
Evangelizantes
,
Seers
,
or
Preachers
:
The
Seers
were
those
which
used
to
converse
with
God
by
Visions
,
or
Divine
Dreams
,
and
to
have
some
miraculous
Revelations
of
things
,
and
many
future
Events
.
This
truly
is
the
proper
high
pitch
of
prophesie
,
the
sublimest
condition
sure
,
that
mortality
can
arrive
at
,
and
that
,
our
first
Moses
had
in
the
greatest
proportion
of
any
meer
man
that
ever
lived
,
as
we
have
seen
in
our
Ascent
;
nor
truly
dare
I
venture
our
second
Moses
here
,
to
the
perfection
of
Parallel
with
him
;
for
,
as
I
have
said
before
,
we
are
yet
unknowing
to
those
particular
private
dispensations
of
Heaven
to
him
,
though
this
we
may
securely
conclude
,
as
the
Scripture
speaks
,
that
the
Secret
of
the
Lord
was
with
him
;
and
that
he
had
the
testimony
of
Jesus
,
which
to
have
,
is
to
have
the
Spirit
of
prophesie
;
for
the
testimony
of
Jesus
,
is
the
Spirit
of
prophesie
,
Revel.
19.10
.
as
is
expressely
delivered
to
us
in
the
Revelation
.
Then
for
the
second
sort
of
Divine
Prophets
,
which
are
the
Evangelizers
,
or
inspired
Preachers
,
they
are
such
as
the
Apostle
describes
at
large
,
in
the
twelfth
,
thirteenth
,
and
fourteenth
,
Chapters
of
his
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
:
and
exhorts
us
all
,
1
Cor.
12.
Ib.
13.
ib.
14.
to
covet
to
be
,
above
all
things
,
and
to
speak
unto
men
,
to
edification
,
to
exhortation
,
and
comfort
.
Now
if
ever
this
sublime
Piece
of
Divine
prophesie
,
was
made
out
to
any
mortal
man
,
of
his
condition
,
it
was
most
eminently
glorious
in
him
:
his
very
life
was
a
perpetual
Prophesie
,
his
sanctified
example
,
was
a
constant
living
Sermon
,
and
the
words
which
the
Spirit
gave
him
,
when
he
was
pleased
to
open
his
inspired
lips
,
were
,
as
we
have
hinted
before
,
as
thunderclaps
to
Hindes
,
for
the
production
of
salvation
.
His
way
of
prophesying
,
was
not
like
theirs
now
adayes
,
that
make
a
trade
of
it
,
and
employ
their
Pulpits
more
for
coin
,
than
conscience
,
and
to
pluck
the
fruits
of
the
earth
from
their
Parishioners
,
than
to
improve
the
fruits
of
the
Spirit
in
them
:
No
,
his
inspired
Highnesse
ever
hated
that
canker
of
worldly
spirits
,
so
predominate
in
the
most
pretended
Prophets
of
this
Age
,
who
indeed
more
zealously
preach
themselves
,
and
their
own
vile
interests
,
than
the
pure
and
saving
word
of
God
.
Others
forsooth
,
there
are
of
them
,
that
will
preach
nothing
but
placentia
,
sow
pillows
under
sinful
elbows
,
and
stroak
and
tickle
their
Auditors
in
the
meane
time
with
strange
stories
,
or
vain
curiosities
,
and
yet
this
they
will
call
prophesying
;
but
be
it
what
it
will
,
they
care
not
,
so
it
be
for
their
own
profiting
;
and
they
have
brought
a
great
part
of
the
people
too
,
to
be
satisfied
with
that
kind
of
stuff
;
nay
,
even
strangely
to
delight
in
it
.
The
generality
now
,
comes
onely
to
hear
Preachers
,
as
of
old
they
used
to
do
to
the
Athenian
Orators
,
or
a
curious
Lute-player
,
or
a
Comedy
:
but
if
he
that
preacheth
has
no
other
intention
but
to
please
,
and
they
that
hear
,
have
no
other
purpose
,
but
to
sooth
their
own
curiosity
,
he
may
weary
his
lungs
in
the
mean
space
,
and
they
hug
the
itch
in
their
ears
;
but
the
time
will
come
,
when
he
shall
have
the
worm
in
his
heart
,
to
gnaw
him
,
and
they
the
tingling
of
the
eares
for
their
punishment
.
The
seller
,
and
the
buyer
,
both
shall
be
payed
home
with
the
coin
of
reprobation
;
for
whosoever
speaketh
not
,
and
who
heareth
not
,
to
do
,
and
become
better
,
abuseth
the
gift
of
prophesie
it self
,
and
a
word
signed
with
the
blood
of
Jesus
Christ
,
the
account
of
which
,
they
will
find
inestimable
,
and
the
losse
of
the
least
jot
of
it
,
most
damnably
dangerous
.
His
inspired
Highnesse
,
I
say
,
out
of
his
true
Prophetick
wisdom
,
1
Cor.
13.2
.
ever
hated
the
courses
of
all
those
giddy
ungodly
Evangelizers
,
and
said
with
holy
Paul
,
Though
I
have
the
gift
of
Prophesie
,
and
understand
all
mysteries
,
and
all
knowledge
,
and
though
I
have
all
faith
,
so
as
I
could
remove
mountains
,
and
have
no
charity
,
I
am
nothing
:
Now
this
charity
tends
to
that
the
Apostle
tells
us
,
(
as
aforesaid
)
to
edification
,
exhortation
,
and
comfort
of
others
,
which
his
true
Prophetick
Spirit
alwayes
observed
,
and
by
that
inflamed
all
his
people
about
him
so
,
that
his
Palace
alwayes
appeared
,
as
a
glorious
Temple
,
and
his
conversation
a
very
Heaven
upon
Earth
:
So
I
hope
this
Parallel
likewise
will
not
be
denyed
,
to
be
accomplished
:
Yet
we
shall
see
it
more
clear
in
the
following
.
The
three
and
twentieth
Ascent
.
MOses
was
not
onely
endowed
by
God
,
with
a
most
rich
and
plentiful
spirit
of
Prophesie
himself
;
but
he
endeavoured
to
procure
it
for
,
and
alwayes
permitted
the
exercise
of
it
in
,
others
:
nay
,
encouraged
and
cherished
it
in
his
people
,
to
the
discontent
of
divers
about
him
;
for
the
sacred
Text
tells
us
,
that
when
newes
was
brought
to
the
blessed
Patriarch
,
and
holy
Prophet
,
that
there
remained
two
of
the
men
in
the
Camp
,
the
name
of
the
one
was
Eldad
,
Num.
11.26
.
and
the
name
of
the
other
Medad
,
and
that
the
spirit
resting
upon
them
,
they
continued
to
prophesie
in
the
Camp
,
V.
27.
V.
28.
V.
29.
and
he
was
solicited
to
forbid
them
.
Then
Moses
said
to
him
,
that
would
have
had
it
forbidden
,
Envyest
thou
for
my
sake
?
would
God
,
that
all
the
Lords
people
were
Prophets
,
and
that
the
Lord
would
put
his
Spirit
upon
them
.
So
it
plainly
appears
,
that
our
great
Patriarch
and
Prophet
Moses
,
was
absolutely
in
his
own
judgement
,
inclined
to
favour
a
liberty
of
Prophesying
,
and
that
his
judgement
too
,
was
seconded
by
Divine
approbation
;
for
what
he
then
spoke
,
was
from
the
very
mouth
,
and
dictate
,
of
the
Spirit
of
God
himself
.
The
Parallel
.
Thus
we
see
,
what
Philosophers
assure
us
,
is
very
true
,
that
Omne
bonum
est
sui
diffusivum
,
All
good
is
diffusive
of
it self
;
nothing
indeed
is
so
proper
to
its
nature
,
as
to
be
communicable
:
much
more
then
must
the
Spirit
of
all
goodnesse
be
so
;
that
is
,
this
Spirit
of
God
himself
,
the
Holy
Spirit
of
prophesie
;
What
else
made
our
great
and
gracious
Patriarch
,
so
willing
to
part
with
some
of
his
spirit
,
as
the
Text
tells
us
,
he
did
to
the
seventy
,
Num.
11.24
.
that
he
set
round
about
the
Tabernacle
?
nor
onely
so
,
but
to
endeavour
,
and
desire
,
as
we
have
seen
in
the
Ascent
,
That
all
Gods
people
were
Prophets
too
,
and
that
the
Lord
would
put
his
Spirit
upon
them
.
O
words
worthy
to
be
written
in
Letters
of
Gold
,
with
a
Pen
of
Diamond
:
And
was
not
this
the
very
sense
,
and
true
Prophetick
Spirit
of
our
second
Moses
too
?
Has
he
not
alwayes
endeavoured
,
to
impart
that
spirit
of
his
to
,
and
improve
it
in
,
the
hearts
of
all
his
people
,
that
were
capable
of
it
?
Has
he
not
alwayes
incouraged
the
free
use
,
and
exercise
of
it
,
throughout
these
Nations
,
whilst
some
cruel
,
greedy
,
envious
,
and
exterminating
spirits
,
were
not
onely
striving
in
private
,
but
enacting
in
publick
,
to
make
a
monopoly
of
this
holy
Spirit
,
and
engrosse
it
to
themselves
?
Nor
onely
so
,
but
went
about
to
extirpate
,
and
root
out
,
all
those
that
desired
the
free
use
,
and
exercise
of
it
.
O
Antichristain
Tyrany
!
But
this
sufficiently
argued
,
that
theirs
was
not
the
true
spirit
of
prophesie
,
neither
of
,
nor
from
the
Lord
at
all
:
for
that
no
spirit
whatsoever
can
have
a
true
union
with
God
,
that
has
not
a
commixture
of
charity
,
is
evident
,
1
Cor.
13.
by
the
drift
of
the
whole
Chapter
of
that
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
cited
in
the
last
Parallel
.
From
whence
then
must
this
spirit
of
bitternesse
amongst
men
proceed
,
is
it
from
the
more
brutal
part
of
man
?
An
ancient
Father
,
Tertull.
in
an
elegant
gradation
of
his
,
tells
us
,
no
:
for
Homo
homini
Lupus
,
A
man
is
a
Wolf
to
a
man
;
that
will
not
reach
it
;
for
Saevis
inter
se
convenit
:
No
beast
so
savage
,
that
will
prey
upon
his
own
kinde
.
Is
it
from
any
devilishnesse
that
may
possesse
humane
nature
?
no
,
Homo
homini
daemon
,
will
not
reach
it
;
for
those
wicked
spirits
do
agree
well
enough
within
themselves
;
for
our
Saviour
himself
,
testifies
of
their
union
,
when
he
sayes
,
That
if
their
house
were
divided
,
it
could
not
stand
.
From
whence
then
can
this
spirit
of
bitternesse
amongst
men
proceed
?
even
from
men
themselves
,
Homo
homini
homo
,
That
alone
can
reach
this
malice
;
for
nothing
is
so
mercilesse
an
enemy
to
man
,
as
man
himself
.
No
creature
in
the
earth
,
besides
Canibal-men
,
will
prey
upon
their
own
speices
,
nor
can
any
but
barbarous
Christians
think
,
that
the
God
of
all
mercy
,
delights
in
humane
sacrifices
,
like
those
devilish
deities
of
old
,
and
still
in
America
,
that
will
be
propitiated
by
no
other
means
.
From
whence
then
must
this
spirit
of
bitternesse
amongst
Christians
proceed
?
is
it
from
any
principle
of
faith
,
or
primitive
practise
?
surely
no
:
for
the
first
children
,
of
the
Christian
Church
,
bore
neither
rod
nor
stick
in
their
hands
,
wherewithal
to
plant
faith
in
the
hearts
of
men
:
How
comes
it
to
passe
then
,
that
we
see
some
sort
of
people
have
publisht
a
Religion
,
all
bristled
over
with
swords
and
pikes
,
all
sooted
with
the
smoke
of
musket
and
canon
,
all
sprinkled
over
,
and
besmear'd
with
the
blood
of
Christians
?
Must
now
the
ancient
Armes
of
our
Christian
forefathers
,
which
were
prayers
,
and
tears
,
be
laid
aside
,
and
none
but
killing
weapons
taken
up
?
no
Schooles
to
decide
controversies
between
Christians
,
but
bloody
Campanias
,
nor
way
to
save
the
souls
of
men
,
but
by
destroying
their
bodies
?
Did
God
refuse
to
have
his
Temple
built
by
David
,
though
a
man
after
his
own
heart
,
because
onely
his
hands
were
bloody
;
and
can
he
now
be
contented
,
to
have
the
very
morter
that
is
to
bind
up
the
stones
,
and
ciment
the
walls
of
his
Church
,
be
tempered
with
blood
,
and
her
breaches
made
up
with
skulls
and
carkases
?
Will
he
now
suffer
the
stones
of
his
house
,
to
be
all
polisht
with
such
stroakes
,
1
Kings
6.7
.
as
are
smitings
of
Brethren
,
who
would
not
endure
in
that
of
Solomons
building
,
so
much
as
the
noise
of
hammer
,
ax
,
or
iron
,
or
brasse
toole
?
From
whence
then
can
proceed
this
spirit
of
bitternesse
amongst
brethren
?
that
the
red
Dragon
should
begin
again
to
play
Rex
,
and
that
Whore
prepare
to
dye
her
Scarlet
anew
,
and
the
pale
Horse
of
imprisonment
and
exile
,
threaten
a
range
about
the
streets
?
till
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
was
pleased
to
oppose
himself
and
all
his
power
,
against
those
cruel
,
and
,
as
I
said
before
,
Antichristian
designs
.
From
whence
,
I
say
,
could
arise
this
root
of
bitternesse
between
Brethren
?
from
nothing
but
a
meer
Machiavillian
trick
too
,
a
pretence
,
forsooth
,
of
conformity
,
or
uniformity
in
the
Church
,
which
has
been
,
and
is
undoubtedly
,
the
greatest
cheat
,
that
ever
the
Devil
invented
,
to
make
men
run
a
mading
in
Religion
,
and
to
embroile
Christendom
in
direful
wars
,
perpetual
confusions
,
and
most
bloody
ruins
.
The
witchcraft
of
that
Jezebel
it
was
,
that
so
long
troubled
this
our
Israel
,
and
that
our
great
Jehu
,
as
well
as
second
Moses
,
so
furiously
marcht
against
,
and
,
thanks
be
to
God
,
has
pretty
well
dissolved
her
inchantments
.
Her
painted
face
,
he
has
now
likewise
discovered
in
its
pure
naturals
,
to
all
the
World
,
and
pulled
off
the
vizard
of
all
pretenses
whatsoever
;
for
let
the
ends
of
these
conformity-mongers
,
be
never
so
plausible
,
to
ciment
the
State
forsooth
,
against
all
division
,
we
find
it
has
been
throughout
all
Europe
,
the
onely
mother
and
nurse
,
of
all
disturbances
whatsoever
in
matters
of
Religion
,
and
the
greatest
occasion
of
civil
bloodshed
,
that
ever
was
in
the
World
;
for
there
can
be
no
War
so
passionate
,
as
the
War
of
conscience
.
All
these
horrid
inconveniences
,
and
mischiefs
,
his
Highnesse's
great
Mosaick
prudence
,
most
timely
lookt
into
,
and
prevented
amongst
us
.
How
often
have
we
seen
the
furious
Furnace
heating
by
several
parties
?
so
could
expect
no
lesse
than
a
fiery-trial
:
But
he
would
neither
suffer
King
,
nor
his
Court
,
though
he
was
the
pretended
head
of
that
pitiful
Body
,
nor
yet
Bishops
,
Arch-Deacons
,
Deans
,
Chancellors
,
and
Officials
,
with
their
long-tailed
,
&c.
Nor
yet
any
Superintendent
with
his
Classes
,
and
pretended
Directories
,
to
impose
any
thing
upon
tender
consciences
;
and
indeed
amongst
all
the
weighty
affairs
of
this
Nation
,
which
he
like
another
Atlas
,
so
happily
bore
about
him
,
the
dear
indulgent
care
,
he
alwayes
exprest
in
the
favour
of
such
Christians
,
who
laboured
under
any
scruples
of
conscience
,
was
as
glorious
and
remarkable
,
as
his
undaunted
courage
to
pull
down
his
proud
and
stiff-necked
enemies
:
and
this
is
most
evident
likewise
,
by
what
it
pleased
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
to
hold
forth
in
the
same
Speech
afore-cited
in
the
last
Ascent
;
which
most
heavenly
words
I
thought
necessary
likewise
to
insert
here
.
When
you
were
entred
upon
this
GOVERNMENT
,
raveling
into
it
(
you
know
I
took
no
notice
what
you
were
doing
)
if
you
had
gone
upon
that
foot
of
Account
,
To
have
made
such
good
and
wholesome
Provisions
for
the
good
of
the
People
of
these
Nations
,
for
the
Settling
of
such
matters
in
things
of
Religion
,
as
would
have
upheld
and
given
Countenance
to
a
Godly
Ministry
,
and
yet
would
have
given
a
just
Liberty
to
Godly
men
of
different
Judgements
,
men
of
the
same
Faith
with
them
that
you
call
the
Orthodox
Ministery
in
England
,
as
it
is
well
known
the
Independents
are
,
and
many
under
the
Form
of
Baptism
,
who
are
found
in
the
Faith
,
onely
may
perhaps
be
different
in
Judgement
in
some
lesser
matters
,
yet
as
true
Christians
,
both
looking
at
Salvation
,
onely
by
faith
in
the
blood
of
Christ
,
men
professing
the
fear
of
God
,
having
recourse
to
the
Name
of
God
,
as
to
a
strong
Tower
;
I
say
,
you
might
have
had
Opportunity
to
have
setled
Peace
and
Quietnesse
amongst
all
professing
Godlinesse
,
and
might
have
been
instrumental
,
if
not
to
have
healed
the
breaches
,
yet
to
have
kept
the
Godly
of
all
Judgements
from
running
one
upon
another
,
and
by
keeping
them
from
being
over-run
by
a
Common
Enemy
,
rendred
them
and
these
Nations
,
both
secure
,
happy
,
and
well
satisfied
.
Are
these
things
done
?
or
any
thing
towards
them
?
Is
there
not
yet
upon
the
spirits
of
men
a
strange
itch
?
nothing
will
satisfie
them
,
unlesse
they
can
put
their
finger
upon
their
Brethrens
Consciences
,
to
pinch
them
there
.
To
do
this
,
was
no
part
of
the
Contest
we
had
with
the
Common
Adversary
;
for
Religion
was
not
the
thing
at
the
first
contested
for
;
but
God
brought
it
to
that
issue
at
last
,
and
gave
it
into
Us
by
way
of
Redundancy
,
and
at
last
it
proved
to
be
that
which
was
most
dear
to
us
;
and
wherein
consisted
this
,
more
than
in
obtaining
that
Liberty
from
the
Tyranny
of
the
Bishops
,
to
all
Species
of
Protestants
,
to
worship
God
according
to
their
own
Light
and
Consciences
?
for
want
of
which
,
many
of
our
Brethren
forsook
their
Native
Countries
,
to
seek
their
Bread
from
Strangers
,
and
to
live
in
Howling
Wildernesses
;
and
for
which
also
,
many
that
remained
here
,
were
imprisoned
,
and
otherwise
abused
,
and
made
the
scorn
of
the
Nation
.
Those
that
were
sound
in
the
Faith
,
how
proper
was
it
for
them
to
labour
for
Liberty
,
for
a
just
Liberty
,
that
men
should
not
be
trampled
upon
for
their
Consciences
?
had
not
they
laboured
but
lately
under
the
weight
of
Persecutions
,
and
was
it
fit
for
them
to
fit
heavy
upon
others
?
is
it
ingenuous
to
ask
liberty
,
and
not
to
give
it
?
what
greater
Hypocrisie
,
than
for
those
who
were
oppressed
by
the
Bishops
,
to
become
the
greatest
Oppressors
themselves
,
so
soon
as
their
yoke
was
removed
?
I
could
wish
that
they
who
call
for
Libery
now
also
,
had
not
too
much
of
that
Spirit
,
if
the
power
were
in
their
hands
.
As
for
Prophane
Persons
,
Blasphemers
,
such
as
preach
Sedition
,
the
Contentious
Railers
;
Evil
Speakers
,
who
seek
by
evil
words
to
corrupt
good
manners
,
persons
of
loose
conversations
,
punishment
from
the
Civil
Magistrate
ought
to
meet
with
them
,
because
,
if
these
pretend
Conscience
,
yet
walking
disorderly
,
and
not
according
,
but
contrary
to
the
Gospel
,
and
even
to
natural
light
,
they
are
judged
of
all
,
and
their
Sins
being
open
,
make
them
subjects
of
the
Magistrates
Sword
,
who
ought
not
to
bear
it
in
vain
.
O
words
worthy
of
the
spirit
of
so
great
a
Prince
and
Prophet
,
which
I
could
dwell
upon
to
admire
!
but
I
am
called
now
away
from
that
admiration
;
Yet
,
in
the
mean
time
,
I
must
desire
leave
to
wonder
at
another
Prodigy
,
With
what
face
these
uniformity
men
,
be
they
King
,
Court
,
and
Council
;
Prelate
,
Dean
,
and
Chapter
;
President
,
Superintendent
,
and
Consistory
;
be
it
Convocation
,
Synod
,
or
Assembly
,
could
prescribe
Rules
to
other
mens
faiths
,
unlesse
they
could
make
clearly
out
,
that
very
Junto
of
theirs
,
call
it
what
you
will
,
to
be
the
onely
true
Throne
of
Christ
,
and
that
they
could
demonstrate
all
the
lineaments
of
their
Discipline
,
and
Government
,
to
be
truly
and
naturally
derived
from
the
pure
Fountain
of
Gods
word
:
otherwise
,
methinkes
,
such
tyrannous
impositions
should
rather
affrighten
,
than
satisfie
mens
consciences
,
and
make
them
disclaim
such
a
Religion
for
a
monster
,
than
accept
it
for
a
well-shap't
child
of
the
Church
.
Is
it
reason
for
me
to
run
out
of
my
wits
,
to
satisfie
a
company
of
unreasonable
men
,
met
together
?
and
shall
I
lay
the
head
of
my
faith
upon
the
block
of
any
Assembly
,
to
be
cut
and
mangled
into
what
form
and
fashion
they
shall
please
?
God
forbid
:
But
yet
I
hold
it
much
more
madnesse
to
persecute
any
man
because
he
is
not
of
my
opinion
;
I
may
as
well
sure
quarrel
with
those
that
resemble
me
not
in
outward
complexion
:
For
since
we
lost
perfection
in
Adam
,
whatever
knowledge
we
attain
to
now
,
is
either
Moral
,
by
the
improving
of
those
natural
endowments
,
God
has
given
us
,
or
else
Divine
,
which
comes
by
an
immediate
influence
from
Heaven
upon
the
soul
;
therefore
when
we
see
any
weaker
in
judgement
than
our selves
,
we
should
look
upon
them
,
rather
as
objects
of
pitty
,
than
punishment
,
rather
deplorable
,
than
damnable
.
Vain
man
,
what
made
the
difference
betwixt
thee
,
and
thy
weak
brother
?
Was
it
not
free
grace
?
for
what
hast
thou
,
as
the
Apostle
demands
of
thee
,
that
thou
didst
not
receive
?
and
that
God
may
reveale
to
him
also
,
in
his
due
time
.
Is
it
not
a
barbarous
thing
,
for
people
to
be
stript
of
their
lives
and
goods
,
for
difference
in
opinions
onely
,
though
our
brethren
still
in
Christ
?
Nay
,
to
lie
under
so
rigid
a
persecution
,
that
poor
Christians
should
be
made
accountable
for
the
very
goods
that
have
been
violently
pulled
from
them
,
and
tributary
for
the
onely
shipwrack
of
their
poverty
.
Nor
is
this
course
of
cruel
proceeding
in
points
of
Religion
,
more
against
Piety
,
than
common
Policy
:
for
first
it
is
as
impossible
to
root
out
any
Religion
by
a
persecution
,
as
to
put
out
a
fire
,
with
blowing
of
it
,
the
suffering
party
alwayes
gaining
credit
to
his
cause
,
if
it
be
a
matter
of
Conscience
;
and
therefore
we
find
the
Christian
Church
has
alwayes
fructified
by
the
blood
of
Martyrs
;
and
indeed
,
had
no
other
visible
seed-plot
,
but
the
places
of
their
executions
.
Then
it
is
not
a
more
common
,
than
true
Rule
,
that
Malus
custos
diuturnitatis
metus
,
&
frequens
vindicta
paucorum
odium
reprimit
,
omnium
irritat
:
Fear
is
no
good
Master
,
and
frequent
punishments
,
provoke
more
ill
blood
,
than
they
do
suppresse
.
The
reason
is
plain
,
for
men
that
lie
under
any
oppression
,
especially
if
it
be
for
matter
of
conscience
,
though
they
are
at
some
times
possibly
wise
and
temperate
enough
,
doe
ordinarily
become
mad
,
and
usually
trample
down
all
relations
,
to
make
way
for
a
deliverance
,
where
they
have
least
hopes
given
them
of
a
remedy
;
and
as
the
condition
of
mens
beings
alter
,
so
they
do
most
commonly
vary
their
interests
,
and
principles
.
His
Mosaick
Highnesse
therefore
,
would
not
,
(
as
was
said
before
,
of
him
,
that
Cum
victor
extiterit
lictor
protinus
evasit
)
appear
at
all
severe
upon
Brethren
of
the
same
Faith
,
though
differing
,
it
may
be
,
in
some
Doctrines
:
he
provided
more
Doctors
,
than
Executioners
for
them
,
knowing
that
the
apprehensions
of
God
,
and
true
Religion
,
are
to
be
instilled
into
the
hearts
of
men
,
by
the
true
Spirit
of
Prophesie
,
and
help
of
tongues
,
and
not
by
the
dint
of
swords
:
he
knew
that
God
had
not
in
these
dayes
,
refused
his
wonted
appearance
in
a
soft
voice
,
and
chosen
to
remain
in
thunder
,
as
our
Boanerges's
,
would
have
it
now
:
as
also
he
considered
,
that
to
go
about
to
reform
any
thing
in
Religion
,
by
humane
strength
,
is
quite
contrary
to
the
nature
of
Reformation
it self
,
and
as
extravagant
a
course
,
as
to
attempt
,
the
repair
of
a
Castle-wall
with
a
needle
and
thread
.
He
never
went
about
to
make
decisions
of
Faith
,
with
the
edge
of
his
sword
,
or
determine
controversies
in
Religion
,
by
his
armour
of
proof
;
No
,
the
sword
of
the
Spirit
he
knew
,
did
never
use
to
make
way
to
the
conscience
,
by
cutting
through
the
flesh
;
and
he
that
by
force
of
armes
,
cruelty
,
and
persecution
,
goes
about
to
reform
,
or
defend
any
Religion
,
doth
but
take
such
courses
,
as
are
condemned
by
the
same
Religion
,
that
he
would
defend
.
His
Highnesse
therefore
,
alwayes
took
a
softer
and
securer
course
,
like
a
true
Mosaical
Prophet
indeed
,
knowing
that
the
true
Spirit
of
Prophesie
,
like
Amber
,
sweetly
draws
the
slightest
straw
,
and
like
Adamant
,
will
court
and
attract
,
the
hardest
iron
:
He
had
observed
likewise
,
what
some
Naturalists
tell
us
,
That
fountains
of
troubled
water
,
would
be
cleansed
with
a
Honey-comb
,
while
violent
stirring
of
them
,
would
but
foul
them
worse
.
He
reflected
frequently
upon
the
Speech
of
Abner
to
Joab
,
2
Sam.
2.26
.
Num
usque
ad
internecionem
hujus
macro
defaeviet
,
an
ignoras
quod
periculosa
est
desperatio
?
usque
quo
non
dicis
populo
,
ut
omittat
persequi
fratres
suos
?
Shall
the
Sword
devoure
forever
?
Knowest
thou
not
,
that
it
is
not
a
little
dangerous
to
drive
men
into
despairation
?
How
long
shall
it
be
then
,
ere
thou
bid
the
people
return
from
persecuting
their
Brethren
?
An
excellent
piece
of
counsel
,
and
as
good
an
example
,
and
was
as
well
followed
by
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
;
He
ever
held
those
to
be
best
,
and
most
godly
Laws
,
that
were
least
sanguinary
,
and
yet
maintained
order
:
all
others
he
accounted
meer
Phalarismes
,
and
leges
Draconis
.
And
though
it
may
be
objected
,
that
to
give
factions
the
bridle
,
to
entertain
and
propagate
new
opinions
,
is
the
highway
to
scatter
contentions
,
and
sow
divisions
amongst
the
people
,
and
as
it
were
,
to
lend
them
hand
to
make
a
disturbance
of
the
Publick
peace
,
there
being
no
bar
or
obstacle
of
Lawes
,
to
hinder
their
course
;
yet
it
may
be
as
well
urged
,
that
to
give
factions
that
very
bridle
,
to
uphold
their
opinions
,
is
by
that
facility
and
gracious
favour
,
the
ready
way
to
mollifie
and
reform
them
;
at
least
,
to
blunt
their
edge
,
which
would
be
otherwise
sharpned
,
by
rarenesse
,
novelty
,
and
difficulty
.
Clemency
is
a
vertue
sometimes
of
as
great
policy
,
as
piety
,
as
we
have
shewed
in
our
former
Ascents
;
because
it
begets
love
,
and
love
breeds
loyalty
,
commands
the
very
soul
,
and
layes
the
body
at
the
feet
of
the
obliger
.
Mercy
kindles
fire
and
zeale
in
the
hearts
of
Subjects
,
pitty
and
pardon
,
as
they
make
the
obligation
of
the
offenders
greater
,
so
it
makes
them
repent
,
to
have
offended
him
,
who
hath
so
obliged
them
,
the
reason
is
infallible
,
fidelem
si
putaveris
facies
;
The
way
to
make
a
faithful
friend
,
is
to
believe
him
to
be
so
.
But
what
has
prophesying
to
do
with
faction
?
that
good
spirit
sure
,
cannot
be
guilty
of
making
any
publick
disturbance
,
for
it
is
a
spirit
of
peace
.
Several
prophetick
spirits
certainly
,
and
diversities
of
perswasions
,
in
matter
of
Religion
,
may
live
and
cohabit
together
,
without
destruction
of
one
another
;
and
though
they
come
not
into
one
Church
,
Congregation
,
or
Meeting-place
,
yet
may
converse
together
in
one
Market
,
City
,
or
Common-wealth
.
Symmachus
though
a
Pagan
,
yet
a
most
Learned
and
Vertuous
one
,
could
say
,
in
a
Speech
,
that
he
made
to
Theodorick
,
That
in
matter
of
Religion
,
every
man
ought
to
have
his
rights
and
ceremonies
,
as
his
opinion
,
free
,
and
gives
his
reason
thus
:
God
is
a
great
Secret
,
no
wonder
therefore
if
we
endeavour
to
find
him
,
so
many
several
wayes
.
And
Constantine
,
though
a
very
good
Christian
,
profest
in
a
solemn
Oration
,
Not
to
force
any
man
in
his
Religion
,
but
to
leave
to
every
one
that
,
as
free
as
the
Elements
.
I
would
very
fain
know
now
,
what
these
men
of
mighty
uniformity
,
will
say
to
these
great
reasons
,
and
greater
authorities
of
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
the
greatest
Princes
,
and
gravest
Persons
,
in
the
World
,
and
what
possibility
they
can
propose
,
to
reduce
the
diversities
of
mens
spirits
,
to
this
their
wonderful
accord
?
For
it
is
against
common
sense
and
reason
,
that
ever
men
shall
be
one
in
opinion
;
we
know
the
Heathen
could
declare
,
Quot
capita
tot
sensus
;
So
many
men
,
so
many
mindes
:
So
that
they
which
endeavour
this
specious
unity
,
seem
to
me
,
to
go
about
to
imprison
Aeolus
,
and
his
two
and
thirty
sonnes
,
in
a
bag
,
as
it
is
said
,
the
L●planders
use
to
do
,
since
opinion
will
blow
still
from
every
point
of
the
Compasse
.
And
as
any
confinement
of
the
winde
,
torments
nature
with
an
earthquake
,
so
to
rob
the
soul
of
its
freedom
,
(
which
is
far
more
agil
and
diffusive
)
must
needs
cause
a
cholick
,
with
an
inflammation
,
in
the
bowels
of
a
Kingdom
.
Till
then
,
these
pitiful
uniformity-mongers
,
be
pointed
at
,
as
the
onely
enemies
of
a
State
,
and
this
wretched
perswasion
be
wrought
out
of
the
hearts
of
men
,
that
they
ought
to
make
all
men
walke
that
way
par-force
,
which
their
byassed
Priests
cry
up
for
the
onely
right
;
and
till
men
be
lesse
in
the
Letter
,
that
they
may
be
more
one
,
in
the
Spirit
,
(
which
none
but
the
spiritual
can
apprehend
)
and
until
they
leave
crying
for
fire
from
Heaven
,
against
Brethren
in
the
Faith
,
we
shall
alwayes
have
our
Churches
,
and
Country
too
,
in
a
flame
,
though
perhaps
themselves
may
be
first
in
the
ashes
.
In
the
mean
time
,
it
shall
satisfie
me
,
and
I
hope
,
all
the
good
people
of
the
Land
,
to
contemplate
the
Idaea
,
and
blessed
example
of
our
gracious
second
,
as
he
did
alwayes
that
of
the
first
,
Moses
,
who
opposed
himself
,
and
all
his
power
,
against
those
envious
spirits
,
that
pretended
unity
for
their
schismatical
breaches
of
Christs
body
,
and
Faith
for
their
factions
;
and
so
suppressing
the
true
spirit
of
Prophesie
in
all
others
would
be
thought
to
ingrosse
it
to
themselves
;
whereas
,
God
knows
,
they
have
none
at
all
of
it
;
for
the
burning
heats
of
their
persecutions
,
and
the
bright
flames
of
brotherly
charity
,
are
lighted
from
as
distant
fires
,
as
Heaven
is
from
Hell
.
His
Mosaical
Highnesse
therefore
,
in
humble
imitation
of
his
first
Great
Master
,
in
this
Ascent
of
his
,
and
in
obedience
to
the
Divine
exhortations
of
the
Apostle
,
who
chargeth
us
not
to
quench
the
Spirit
,
nor
despise
Prophesying
;
1
Thess.
5.19
,
20.
and
like
a
true
Father
of
the
children
of
the
Prophets
,
ever
supported
them
,
in
their
their
fair
,
and
full
liberty
,
of
Prophesying
;
that
we
may
now
cry
out
,
with
the
Psalmist
,
Great
is
the
number
of
the
Prophets
:
and
further
,
we
may
observe
,
and
blesse
God
,
for
the
great
fruites
,
and
effects
of
that
goodnesse
,
which
we
now
enjoy
by
that
happy
liberty
;
Peace
within
,
and
Honour
without
,
Love
at
home
,
Respect
abroad
,
and
such
a
Concord
of
discords
,
and
sweet
Union
of
divisions
,
that
we
can
see
nothing
of
strife
amongst
us
,
unlesse
it
be
a
religious
contention
on
all
sides
,
for
devotion
and
a
good
life
,
for
peaceable
conversation
,
obedience
to
Magistrates
,
excellency
of
learning
;
who
shall
do
most
good
in
the
State
,
and
deserve
the
Prize
;
and
such
an
Eutopia
,
could
he
onely
make
in
England
,
that
did
deserve
the
Olive
branches
for
Mercy
,
Peace
,
and
Goodnesse
,
as
well
as
the
Laurel
,
for
his
Victories
,
Wisdom
,
Government
,
and
Constancy
,
(
the
Crown
of
all
.
)
The
four
and
twentieth
Ascent
.
MOses
being
thus
blest
with
all
the
beautiful
embellishments
of
Body
and
Soul
,
that
mortal
man
was
capable
of
,
so
admirable
in
the
pre-eminencies
of
his
nature
,
so
flourishing
in
all
the
ornaments
of
Art
,
and
extraordinary
advantages
of
a
most
Noble
education
,
nay
,
adorned
too
with
Divine
dignities
:
being
thus
proved
to
be
an
absolute
good
Souldier
,
compleat
Captain
,
and
Conductor-General
,
a
most
Master-Statesman
,
perfect
Prince
,
and
supreme
Magistrate
;
and
yet
further
,
advanced
to
the
most
sublime
degrees
of
Patriarch
,
and
Prophet
:
What
can
be
more
expected
,
or
desired
,
from
Heaven
in
favour
of
his
incomparable
person
?
nothing
sure
,
but
what
he
had
in
the
greatest
proportion
,
that
ever
man
alive
had
,
and
that
was
,
a
profound
,
shall
I
say
?
or
,
a
high
,
humility
?
a
matchlesse
meeknesse
of
spirit
,
the
Crown
doubtlesse
of
all
his
other
exaltations
;
for
without
that
,
not
all
the
greatness
and
glory
of
the
Earth
,
nor
yet
the
graces
and
dignities
of
Heaven
,
would
signifie
more
to
a
man
,
than
a
Medicine
composed
of
many
vertuous
and
vigorous
simples
,
and
infected
by
the
infusion
of
one
poisonous
drug
.
Humility
therefore
;
as
it
was
the
first
step
of
all
his
greatnesse
,
when
the
Lord
found
him
out
in
the
Desart
,
so
he
carried
it
constantly
along
with
him
,
Exod.
3.
and
to
Crown
all
his
Actions
and
Undertakings
;
by
this
he
subjected
the
pride
of
Pharaoh
,
and
all
the
perversnesse
of
his
own
people
,
whose
frequent
insurrections
,
and
mutinous
distempers
,
he
supprest
by
no
thing
more
,
Num.
14.
than
his
meer
meeknesse
,
and
often
submissive
falling
upon
his
face
,
as
to
be
seen
,
in
the
Rebellion
of
Korah
,
and
the
Sedition
of
Miriam
;
after
all
which
,
the
Lord
was
pleased
to
give
him
,
this
gracious
Character
;
Num.
12.
That
he
was
a
very
meek
man
,
and
humble
,
above
all
the
men
which
were
upon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
Thus
was
the
Lord
pleased
to
sanctifie
him
in
his
faithfulnesse
,
and
meeknesse
,
Eccles.
45.4
.
as
Ecclesiasticus
expresseth
it
,
and
so
chose
him
out
of
all
men
.
The
Parallel
.
Thus
we
are
at
length
arrived
,
within
the
highest
Port
of
personal
perfection
,
that
any
Prince
can
possibly
call
an
Anchor
in
:
the
sublimest
step
that
mortal
man
is
capable
to
mount
.
The
Stars
,
we
know
,
are
beheld
in
the
bottom
of
a
pit
,
and
profound
humility
,
maketh
the
most
radiant
splendours
to
appear
in
Princely
greatnesse
.
The
Sun
,
we
see
,
that
is
the
Prince
of
Planets
,
dispelleth
alwayes
all
the
grossest
,
thickest
,
and
stiffest
,
vapours
,
and
draweth
the
thinnest
and
most
subtile
to
himself
.
How
much
more
then
that
we
do
attenuate
,
lessen
,
and
anihilate
our selves
,
which
we
can
do
no
other
way
so
well
,
as
by
the
practise
of
this
celestial
vertue
of
Humility
,
so
much
the
nearer
we
are
sure
to
approach
to
the
Son
of
Righteousnesse
,
and
true
Glory
.
Nay
,
that
Son
of
Righteousnesse
and
true
Glory
himself
,
was
pleased
not
to
render
himself
,
so
illustrious
to
us
,
in
any
one
particular
,
as
in
the
practise
of
this
,
both
profound
and
sublime
vertue
;
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
from
the
Crib
,
to
the
Crosse
,
being
nothing
else
but
a
constant
moving
homily
of
Humility
.
It
is
no
wonder
then
,
that
the
Holy
spirit
of
God
,
was
pleased
to
take
such
punctual
care
,
so
expressely
to
describe
,
this
excellency
in
our
great
Patriarch
;
and
I
doubt
not
,
but
upon
a
strict
examen
,
we
shall
find
our
late
Princely
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
his
Parallel
,
in
this
also
,
as
well
as
in
all
his
other
most
heroical
perfections
.
As
for
his
humility
to
Godward
,
and
pure
meeknesse
of
spirit
,
in
submission
to
his
Will
,
and
Divine
Commands
,
I
hope
,
we
have
pretty
well
put
out
of
question
already
;
as
for
his
remarkable
humility
,
and
meeknesse
of
spirit
towards
man
,
his
continual
conversation
cannot
but
bring
in
sufficient
evidence
.
Is
there
any
man
now
living
,
that
can
with
justice
tax
him
of
any
pride
,
or
imperious
distance
,
that
he
ever
kept
with
his
people
?
No
,
it
is
notoriously
known
,
to
all
that
ever
knew
him
,
that
he
did
alwayes
communicate
himself
with
so
much
sweetnesse
,
affability
,
facility
,
and
curtesie
,
that
he
did
ever
augment
his
respect
,
by
very
familiarity
;
the
usual
course
most
commonly
to
dissolve
it
,
and
in
that
resembled
perfectly
the
most
precious
Amethyst
,
which
shines
so
much
the
more
clearly
,
and
orientally
,
as
it
has
been
more
often
worne
.
As
nothing
was
too
high
for
his
courage
,
understanding
,
&
piety
,
so
nothing
was
too
low
for
his
bounty
,
conversation
,
&
curtesie
.
For
God
did
not
only
bestow
on
him
,
an
equal
proportion
of
the
Mosaical
spirit
of
meeknesse
;
but
conferred
upon
him
in
like
manner
,
the
glorious
gift
which
the
Scripture
attributes
to
the
Patriarch
Joseph
,
both
in
the
Psalmes
,
and
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrews
,
which
is
no
small
gift
of
the
Spirit
indeed
,
to
oblige
hearts
with
sweetnesse
;
not
unlike
those
famous
Engins
of
Archimedes
,
which
made
water
mount
by
descending
;
so
his
most
honourable
humility
vouchsafed
to
descend
,
but
to
make
himself
re-ascend
to
the
source
of
the
prime
sublimity
,
and
so
as
his
vertues
upon
Earth
,
have
made
him
Laurels
here
,
they
have
procured
for
him
most
incorruptible
Crowns
in
Heaven
.
Bern.
Well
then
might
blessed
Bernard
tell
us
,
that
Magna
virtus
est
humiltas
honorata
,
Humility
in
persons
of
Honour
,
is
a
most
sublime
vertue
;
indeed
it
is
a
piece
of
excellency
,
onely
proper
for
Princes
,
and
great
Persons
.
I
will
not
deny
but
poor
inferiour
spirits
,
may
be
capable
of
it
;
but
this
,
I
am
sure
of
,
that
they
which
lie
buried
in
a
base
condition
,
have
nothing
of
an
equal
latitude
to
expresse
it
;
for
the
great
Ones
of
the
Earth
onely
,
are
they
,
that
are
most
roughly
assaulted
with
the
storms
of
Pride
,
and
so
consequently
must
receive
more
glory
and
praise
from
the
repulse
of
it
.
Nay
,
I
will
be
bold
to
assert
yet
further
,
in
the
behalf
of
our
Mosaical
high
Humility
,
that
all
the
vertues
in
the
World
,
signifie
nothing
at
all
,
without
it
,
no
more
,
than
as
was
said
in
the
Ascent
,
a
wholesom
Medicament
would
do
to
a
mans
health
,
with
a
mixture
of
poison
in
it
:
amasse
all
that
can
be
called
good
in
any
single
person
,
and
let
this
one
thing
onely
be
wanting
,
those
very
vertues
will
prove
but
specious
vices
,
nay
,
holy
traytors
to
his
soul
,
and
betray
it
to
the
very
worst
of
impieties
.
Let
a
man
have
all
the
liberality
and
munificence
in
the
World
,
if
he
be
once
proud
of
it
,
it
will
presently
degenerate
into
a
very
foul
prodigality
;
and
as
the
wise
Socrates
expresseth
it
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
makes
men
by
the
sottish
usage
,
and
management
of
the
graces
themselves
,
turne
those
Virgins
,
to
be
prostituts
,
forgetting
,
that
to
know
how
to
give
well
,
is
a
great
Science
;
and
that
the
distribution
of
gifts
,
and
graces
,
is
to
be
made
with
a
prudent
oeconomy
.
Give
a
man
constancy
,
and
let
him
grow
up
to
a
pride
of
it
,
the
nature
of
the
vertue
will
be
presently
destroyed
,
and
soon
passe
into
plain
obstinacy
,
and
perversity
,
the
most
dangerous
condition
that
a
man
can
possibly
fall
into
,
though
otherwise
he
may
be
,
the
learnedst
,
and
most
knowing
person
alive
.
It
was
most
excellently
well
observed
therefore
of
the
Learned
Gerson
,
Gerson
If
you
see
one
to
walk
,
saith
he
,
in
the
way
of
his
proper
judgement
,
and
stiff
in
it
,
although
he
had
one
foot
in
Paradise
,
he
must
presently
withdraw
it
;
for
it
is
better
to
walke
in
the
shades
of
death
,
under
the
conduct
of
humility
,
than
to
have
a
Paradise
it self
,
in
any
pitiful
pride
,
or
the
pleasures
of
proper
phansie
.
Nay
the
vertue
of
fortitude
it self
,
the
most
consistent
sure
with
pride
,
and
self-conceit
of
any
vertue
;
yet
if
it
be
but
infected
with
it
,
it
proves
presently
presumption
,
and
where
that
once
gets
entrance
,
it
puffs
up
so
prodigiously
,
that
it
makes
of
a
man
,
as
it
were
,
a
meer
Baloon
,
filled
with
winde
,
a
scarcrow
of
honour
,
a
pitiful
temerarious
nothing
,
void
of
courage
,
an
undertaker
without
successe
,
a
phantastick
without
shame
,
which
in
the
end
,
will
become
burdensome
to
it self
,
and
odious
to
all
the
World
;
and
makes
men
come
into
a
field
of
honour
,
as
it
is
said
some
of
our
neighbours
do
,
with
a
clattering
noise
,
and
fury
like
thunder
,
but
vanish
presently
like
smoke
:
and
yet
such
men
as
these
,
will
think
themselves
,
it
may
be
,
valiant
,
Vell.
Paterc
.
because
they
fear
nothing
(
as
they
say
)
but
the
wise
Velleius
tells
us
,
that
Nemo
saepius
opprimitur
quàm
qui
nihil
timet
,
and
that
frequentissimum
calamitatis
initium
,
est
securitas
,
To
be
secure
in
ones
own
opinon
,
and
to
fear
nothing
,
is
the
ready
way
to
ruin
:
fear
indeed
is
most
commonly
the
mother
of
safety
,
and
the
true
means
not
to
be
afraid
of
a
misfortune
,
is
to
fear
it
alwayes
.
A
Motto
therefore
fit
for
a
true
valiant
man
,
to
carry
in
his
colours
,
is
,
that
which
I
have
seen
in
a
Noble
hand
,
Pauca
timeo
,
Pauciora
despicio
,
I
fear
few
things
,
and
despise
fewer
;
Now
this
unhappy
spirit
of
Pride
,
is
the
mother
of
this
cursed
security
,
and
what
is
worse
,
insolency
;
with
which
,
true
fortitude
can
no
way
cohabit
,
Guichard
,
l.
2.
as
the
wise
Italian
tells
us
,
Sempre
é
congiunto
in
un
medesimo
suggetto
,
l'insolentia
con
la
timiditate
,
Insolency
and
timidity
are
never
found
asunder
;
but
alwayes
accompanying
one
another
in
the
same
subject
:
So
by
consequence
,
without
this
Mosaick
meeknesse
of
spirit
,
no
man
can
be
accounted
,
much
lesse
be
,
truly
valiant
.
I
have
seen
a
man
in
like
manner
,
by
a
ridiculous
conceit
of
his
own
patience
,
(
which
it
may
be
,
he
had
at
first
,
to
a
vertuous
proportion
)
fool
himself
into
the
opinion
of
a
Stoick
;
but
,
indeed
grew
worse
than
any
Stock
,
or
,
at
least
,
as
stupid
.
I
should
be
infinite
to
enumerate
the
many
massacres
which
this
unhappy
pride
of
spirit
,
makes
continually
upon
the
whole
chained
of
holy
vertues
,
it
is
,
apparently
the
plain
murderesse
,
and
envenomer
of
them
all
:
So
much
onely
as
has
been
said
,
may
serve
to
shew
,
how
this
high
Mosaick
Ascent
of
Humility
,
and
Meeknesse
of
spirit
,
is
the
very
ratio
formalis
,
as
the
Schooles
speak
,
of
all
,
and
every
one
of
the
vertues
,
that
can
be
seated
in
the
heart
of
man
.
No
wonder
then
,
that
the
All
wise
Spirit
of
God
,
took
such
particular
care
to
recommend
it
to
us
,
in
the
person
of
our
first
Moses
;
and
as
easie
must
it
be
to
conceive
a
reason
,
why
our
gracious
second
,
his
precious
Parallel
,
should
so
faithfully
endeavour
to
imitate
him
in
that
,
as
well
as
his
other
perfections
,
they
being
both
pre-ordained
by
God
,
to
be
the
greatest
Magazines
of
all
vertuous
goodnesse
amongst
men
,
that
either
this
,
or
that
Age
has
produced
.
We
have
seen
them
both
in
their
humble
retreat
from
,
and
modest
avoidance
of
worldly
honours
&
advancements
to
humane
greatness
,
which
after
they
were
so
violently
compel'd
unto
,
by
Divine
precept
,
behold
,
and
admire
,
with
what
moderation
,
humility
,
and
meeknesse
,
of
spirit
,
they
have
ever
managed
them
:
excellently
therefore
does
holy
Cyprian
stile
this
tanscendent
vertue
of
Humility
,
Cyprian
de
Nativ
.
Christi
.
Primum
religionis
introitum
,
&
ultimum
Christianitatis
exitum
,
The
Gate
of
all
Religion
,
and
the
Crown
or
highest
Ascent
of
Christianity
;
for
who
can
think
,
that
he
will
be
faithful
to
Jesus
Christ
,
that
can
be
unfaithful
to
that
virtue
,
which
shined
so
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
him
,
to
wit
,
that
of
humility
?
and
truly
,
I
cannot
cease
from
wonder
,
when
I
consider
the
little
reason
,
that
any
man
in
the
earth
has
,
to
be
proud
of
any
thing
;
and
it
was
doubtlesse
the
holy
consideration
of
his
Mosaical
Highnesse
too
.
First
the
highest
petigree
of
the
greatest
man
upon
Earth
,
is
but
to
have
been
an
eternity
in
nothing
;
for
if
we
mount
still
upwards
,
ascending
to
the
prime
source
and
origine
of
time
,
when
we
shall
have
reckoned
millions
of
Ages
,
we
shall
find
nothing
but
inexplicable
Labyrinths
,
and
abysses
of
one
great
eternity
,
without
beginning
or
end
:
and
when
we
shall
present
to
our
thoughts
,
all
that
time
which
has
preceded
,
be
it
reall
,
or
imaginary
,
we
shall
be
ashamed
to
see
,
so
many
millions
of
years
,
wherein
we
had
not
so
much
as
the
being
of
a
rush
,
a
silly
gnat
,
or
a
butter-flie
.
Nay
,
that
blustring
insolent
Rodomont
,
be
he
what
,
and
where
he
will
,
that
threatneth
this
day
to
hew
down
mountains
,
and
thunder-strike
his
fellow
mortals
,
and
thinks
the
whole
house
of
Nature
was
created
onely
for
him
,
and
so
prepares
to
swallow
it
all
by
avarice
,
and
waste
it
as
fast
by
riot
,
thirty
or
forty
years
agoe
,
more
or
lesse
,
was
not
able
to
contend
for
excellency
,
with
a
pitiful
Cater-pillar
.
His
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
I
say
,
considered
all
this
,
and
a
great
deal
more
,
to
render
himself
a
true
imitator
of
his
Master
.
First
,
though
his
Nobility
of
birth
,
was
very
great
,
as
we
have
seen
,
he
never
intoxicated
his
brains
with
it
,
as
some
do
now
adayes
,
that
make
it
their
businesse
to
dig
out
,
and
disentomb
their
Grandfathers
,
as
it
were
from
the
ashes
of
old
Troy
,
Auson
.
in
Paneg.
and
spend
so
much
time
,
as
Ausonius
sayes
very
well
,
In
searching
out
of
uncertain
Parents
,
that
they
many
times
give
occasion
to
suspect
,
that
they
have
none
certain
.
No
,
my
Lord
,
though
he
knew
very
well
how
to
value
the
happinesse
of
a
good
extraction
;
yet
for
any
man
to
be
proudly
pufft
up
with
it
,
he
accounted
no
lesse
than
madnesse
;
for
revolving
the
whole
masse
of
mankind
,
we
shall
find
,
as
Plato
told
us
,
long
agoe
,
That
there
is
no
King
which
comes
not
from
Clownes
,
nor
Clown
,
who
is
not
descended
from
the
blood
of
Kings
.
Then
for
beauty
of
body
,
though
his
Highnesse
had
as
fair
a
proportion
,
as
any
man
,
as
we
have
likewise
shewed
;
yet
he
could
as
little
pride
himself
in
that
,
knowing
it
to
be
but
a
covering
for
ordures
,
the
blanching
of
a
dunghill
with
snow
,
or
at
the
best
,
but
a
fadding
flower
of
the
field
,
which
hath
,
as
it
were
,
for
Horizon
,
the
very
instant
of
its
birth
,
Et
dum
nascantur
consenuisse
rosas
:
no
more
could
any
of
his
great
natural
,
or
acquired
parts
,
raise
him
above
his
proper
pitch
,
knowing
the
best
learning
amongst
men
,
to
be
but
a
qualified
ignorance
,
the
memory
it self
to
be
,
but
the
belly
of
the
soul
,
and
most
frequently
fill'd
with
nothing
but
winde
:
the
best
and
most
acute
wit
of
man
,
he
lookt
upon
as
a
poor
thin
thing
,
like
the
spiders
web
,
and
fitter
to
catch
flies
,
than
any
thing
else
:
and
as
for
the
judgement
,
he
knew
how
dangerous
a
thing
it
was
to
confide
in
that
,
little
lesse
than
a
leprosie
in
the
heart
of
man
.
No
more
could
his
Mosaick
Soul
be
elevated
with
all
the
honours
he
enjoy'd
,
and
greatnesse
of
this
world
;
for
he
took
all
them
for
burdens
,
and
at
the
best
,
lookt
upon
them
,
but
as
golden
Maskes
,
and
weather-cocks
of
inconstancy
;
and
for
all
manner
of
praises
,
flattery
,
complacency
,
and
ticklings
of
some
vain
men
,
he
ever
hated
and
contemned
,
as
fit
onely
to
inebriate
shallow
brains
:
for
riches
he
evermore
scorned
,
as
the
offall
of
the
earth
,
the
nest
of
rust
,
and
tinder
of
concupiscence
:
for
Palaces
and
stately
Houses
,
he
valued
but
as
the
bones
of
the
earth
,
pil'd
one
upon
another
,
with
ciment
and
morter
:
for
precious
Stones
,
he
esteemed
as
they
were
,
the
excrements
of
an
inraged
Sea
,
borrowing
their
worth
onely
from
illusion
.
Much
lesse
could
his
great
wisdom
be
capable
of
that
vanity
,
wherewith
men
usually
pride
themselves
,
in
cloaths
,
meer
nourishment
for
moths
,
to
cover
bodies
which
must
be
food
for
wormes
;
he
lookt
upon
all
bravery
of
apparel
,
but
as
plaisters
of
the
scars
of
sin
,
to
wit
,
nakednesse
:
borrowed
feathers
from
all
kinds
of
birds
,
unpunisht
thefts
,
witnesses
of
our
poverty
,
that
makes
us
to
beg
the
assistance
of
so
many
creatures
,
to
cover
our
shame
:
Moreover
,
he
knew
,
that
Vestitus
ut
tegit
corpus
ita
detegit
animum
,
Our
attire
does
not
more
cover
the
nakednesse
of
our
bodies
,
than
discover
that
of
our
mindes
;
his
Highnesse
therefore
purposely
did
(
as
all
wise
men
will
)
avoid
any
vanity
,
or
ostentation
in
that
.
Nor
yet
could
his
Mosaick
Highnesse
,
be
taken
with
that
empty
piece
of
pride
,
which
most
great
ones
now
adayes
are
possest
withal
,
to
behold
behind
him
,
great
and
gay
Trains
of
servants
,
who
but
burden
their
Masters
with
their
many
sins
,
and
make
them
become
answerable
for
their
accumulated
follies
.
See
here
a
miracle
of
men
,
in
the
contempt
of
riches
and
honours
;
for
the
first
he
never
cared
to
hold
,
lockt
up
in
his
coffers
,
nor
ever
thought
were
as
they
should
be
,
but
when
they
were
distributed
;
for
they
resembled
,
as
I
have
heard
,
he
used
to
say
,
nothing
more
naturally
,
than
a
dunghill
,
which
stinks
when
it
lies
heaped
together
,
but
fattens
fields
when
spread
abroad
:
and
for
the
other
,
he
took
it
for
as
great
a
meer
mockery
,
to
affect
greatnesse
amongst
men
,
as
if
a
Rat
should
pride
himself
to
be
a
Lord
forsooth
,
amongst
Mice
.
He
was
so
far
from
feeding
himself
with
,
or
priding
himself
in
,
glory
;
that
he
would
often
say
too
,
as
I
have
heard
,
all
that
,
was
but
the
swelling
of
the
eare
.
Are
not
these
Apothegms
worthy
of
so
great
a
Prince
?
In
fine
,
his
Highnesse
alwayes
concluded
with
the
Prophet
Habakkuk
,
Quomodo
potentem
vinum
decipit
,
Habak.
2.
sic
erit
vir
superbus
,
That
as
drunkenness
was
taken
with
wine
,
so
were
the
braines
of
men
intoxicated
with
pride
,
and
proper
opinion
.
There
is
no
man
will
deny
sure
,
but
that
all
those
actions
,
and
expressions
aforesaid
,
were
very
high
humiliations
before
God
,
and
indubitable
marks
of
a
pure
Mosaick
spirit
;
but
where
were
his
humilities
to
men
,
and
his
meeknesses
of
spirit
,
in
points
of
government
?
If
this
be
demanded
,
by
any
doubting
person
,
let
him
tell
me
,
how
often
he
has
found
any
surly
,
supercilious
looks
fall
from
him
,
or
any
fastidious
,
disdainful
words
,
or
gestures
,
which
so
usually
accompany
common
greatnesse
?
No
,
his
Highnesse
,
besides
the
great
amaenity
,
and
affability
of
his
Noble-nature
,
had
better
studied
the
accomplisht
Cyrus
,
Xexoph
.
Cyr.
in
Xenophon
,
who
tells
us
,
that
Fastuosum
ac
morosum
ingenium
,
quod
fastidium
sui
,
aliorumque
secum
trahit
,
felix
principatus
non
admittit
:
Insolency
and
morosity
,
are
not
at
all
consistent
with
the
condition
of
a
happy
Prince
:
and
what
Ausonius
so
highly
commends
in
his
Gratianus
,
Auson
,
in
Paneg.
Gratiani
.
Quod
faciles
interpellantibus
praeberet
aditus
,
nec
de
occupatione
causaretur
,
quinimo
ubi
postulata
aut
querimonias
explicassent
,
percunctaretur
,
numquid
praeterea
vellent
?
That
he
was
a
Prince
of
easie
accesse
,
and
a
very
patient
eare
,
not
expostulating
,
why
men
came
to
trouble
him
?
but
when
they
had
said
all
,
would
ask
still
,
Whether
they
had
any
more
to
say
?
In
short
,
his
Highnesse
was
truly
that
,
which
the
most
gracious
Emperour
Titus
,
would
have
every
Prince
to
be
careful
to
be
;
that
is
,
Sweet
,
Serene
,
and
Pleasant
to
all
,
and
Non
oportere
à
sermone
Principis
quemquam
tristem
discedere
,
That
it
was
not
fit
for
any
Prince
,
to
send
any
man
from
his
presence
away
sad
,
or
discontented
.
His
Highnesse
very
well
understood
,
that
Verba
aliquando
munera
faciunt
:
and
if
he
were
forced
at
any
time
to
deny
a
favour
,
he
did
it
alwayes
so
,
Vt
benignis
negata
res
verbis
,
sit
gratior
quam
concessa
morosis
,
That
he
would
oblige
more
by
his
very
denials
,
than
some
Kings
that
I
have
known
,
would
do
by
their
very
grants
.
It
was
observed
by
a
great
Critick
upon
Julius
Caesar
,
that
Quamvis
eum
Clementia
,
liberalitas
,
&
fortitudo
commendarent
,
odium
tamen
,
conjuratio
&
praematura
mors
oppressit
,
quod
elatior
populo
blandiri
,
senatoribus
assurgere
gravaretur
aut
nesciret
,
verbis
quoque
uteretur
asperis
,
&c.
Though
he
was
hugely
commendable
for
his
Clemency
,
Liberality
,
and
Courage
,
yet
he
fell
under
a
sad
Fate
,
for
want
of
a
little
complacency
with
the
people
,
and
soothing
the
Senate
with
some
complement
,
and
had
alwayes
too
much
asperity
in
his
tongue
.
Could
any
of
these
imputations
ever
light
upon
our
Mosaical
Protector
?
No
,
he
was
ever
as
distant
from
them
,
as
the
Sphere
of
fire
,
can
be
from
the
Center
of
the
Earth
;
so
that
we
may
securely
conclude
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
has
as
much
out-done
Julius
Caesar
in
this
,
as
in
all
his
other
glories
:
never
was
that
great
Title
of
Serenity
,
so
truly
given
to
any
Prince
,
as
to
him
;
for
it
was
born
with
him
.
Thus
we
have
seen
these
two
great
Persons
of
Honour
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
entering
this
grand
Theater
of
the
World
,
from
the
first
Scene
of
their
humble
retirements
to
the
last
issue
and
Catastrophe
of
all
their
happinesses
,
attired
with
nothing
but
humility
,
that
still
accompanying
and
crowning
all
their
Actions
;
as
it
was
the
basis
,
so
it
was
the
vertical
point
of
all
their
greatnesse
;
nay
,
the
very
Orb
and
Element
,
that
all
their
other
Vertues
moved
in
,
and
by
which
they
arrived
at
all
their
glories
;
so
disproving
the
Philosophy
of
Seneca
,
who
sayes
that
Servitus
est
magnitudinus
,
non
posse
fieri
minorem
,
Seneca
.
That
it
is
the
slavery
of
greatnesse
,
not
to
be
made
lesse
;
which
though
may
be
true
in
bodies
,
they
have
proved
to
be
contrary
in
souls
:
and
what
Pliny
assures
us
,
to
be
more
true
,
that
Natura
nusquam
magis
quàm
in
minimis
tota
est
:
Plin.
nature
is
most
entirely
it self
,
and
whole
in
the
least
things
.
This
sweet
littlenesse
of
theirs
,
is
that
,
which
has
rendred
them
so
great
,
in
the
sight
of
God
and
man
;
for
by
so
lessening
and
annihalating
themselves
,
they
have
enlarged
their
glories
,
and
raised
themselves
so
many
degrees
towards
Heaven
,
as
erected
eternal
Trophes
to
their
honour
upon
earth
,
and
those
as
great
,
as
ever
were
written
,
or
can
be
,
in
the
Records
of
Fame
.
Thus
we
have
,
I
hope
,
happily
finisht
the
whole
Stair-case
of
all
our
Mosaick
difficult
Ascents
:
we
shall
now
beg
a
little
breathing-space
,
upon
the
top
of
this
holy
Mount
,
before
we
dare
to
adventure
any
higher
;
and
yet
we
have
but
halfe
a
dozen
short
and
easie
Ascents
more
left
us
to
climb
(
for
they
are
Ascents
of
Favour
and
Prerogative
)
before
we
can
introduce
this
glorious
Couple
,
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
within
their
blessed
Tabernacle
of
Repose
;
and
so
we
do
intend
to
conclude
(
though
it
can
never
be
sufficiently
accomplished
)
this
high
piece
of
Mosaick
Work
.
Six
Transcendental
ASCENTS
,
To
the
top
of
the
MOSAICK
MOUNT
,
OR
BLESSED
TABERNACLE
OF
REPOSE
.
The
first
Transcendental
ASCENT
.
MOses
being
premonisht
by
God
of
his
approaching
end
;
made
his
most
humble
suite
unto
the
Lord
,
for
to
nominate
his
Successor
,
that
the
people
might
not
suffer
by
the
vacancy
of
so
great
a
Charge
:
and
the
form
of
his
Petition
is
very
remarkable
,
which
runs
thus
.
Let
the
Lord
God
of
the
Spirits
of
all
Flesh
,
set
a
man
over
the
Congregation
,
Num.
27.16
.
which
may
go
out
before
them
,
and
which
may
lead
them
out
,
and
which
may
bring
them
in
;
V.
17.
that
the
Congregation
of
the
Lord
be
not
as
sheep
,
which
have
no
Shepherd
;
and
the
Lord
said
unto
Moses
,
V.
18.
Take
thee
Joshua
,
the
son
of
Nun
,
a
man
in
whom
is
the
Spirit
,
and
lay
thine
hand
upon
him
,
&c.
Then
we
find
this
testimony
of
Joshua
afterwards
,
Deut.
34.9
.
That
he
was
full
of
the
Spirit
of
Wisdom
;
for
Moses
had
laid
his
hands
upon
him
,
and
the
children
of
Israel
hearkned
unto
him
,
and
did
as
the
Lord
commanded
Moses
.
The
Parallel
.
We
have
hitherto
,
throughout
all
our
past
Ascents
,
seen
this
incomparable
pair
marching
,
most
amicably
coupled
,
hand
in
hand
together
;
as
well
in
all
their
painful
actions
,
as
sufferings
.
And
a
glorious
spectacle
,
none
sure
can
deny
it
to
be
;
I
am
sure
,
holy
Cyprian
tells
us
,
Cyprian
de
Mortal
.
that
it
is
,
To
see
such
invincible
courages
counterbufft
with
stormes
and
tempests
,
on
whom
it
would
seem
that
heaven
it self
would
burst
and
fall
in
pieces
;
to
behold
two
such
men
,
I
say
,
amidst
the
threats
of
the
air
,
and
the
ruins
of
the
world
,
alwayes
standing
upright
,
like
to
great
brazen
Colossuses
,
and
scorning
them
all
,
as
mists
,
and
small
flakes
of
snow
.
What
can
we
do
lesse
in
such
a
case
,
than
exclaim
with
Seneca
,
Seneca
.
Heu
quanta
sublimitas
,
inter
ruinas
humani
generis
,
stare
erectum
!
O
what
a
sublimity
it
is
,
to
be
erect
in
heart
and
countenance
,
amongst
the
ruines
of
mankind
!
and
give
thanks
to
God
,
with
Typotius
,
Quod
digni
visi
sint
Deo
,
Typotius
in
Symboll
.
in
quibus
experiretur
,
quantum
humana
natura
possit
pati
,
That
he
hath
deemed
them
worthy
,
to
serve
as
a
trial
of
humane
Nature
,
to
see
to
how
high
a
pitch
it
could
arrive
.
And
truly
,
if
we
do
but
rightly
consider
the
rise
,
as
well
as
the
progresse
of
these
two
great
Personages
,
we
shall
find
them
exactly
to
correspond
,
with
that
ingenious
devise
of
Lewis
the
twelfth
of
France
,
which
was
a
celestial
Cup
,
advanced
in
rayes
of
Gold
,
amongst
a
crowd
of
eclipses
,
with
this
Motto
;
Inter
ecclypses
exorior
:
I
rise
between
eclipses
;
We
have
seen
,
I
say
,
this
devise
fully
verified
,
in
our
first
and
second
Moses
,
and
yet
their
Clemency
,
and
Piety
,
was
alwayes
so
great
,
as
to
pardon
and
pray
for
their
very
eclipsers
,
and
persecutors
themselves
,
like
all
the
ancient
Martyrs
,
who
when
laden
with
torments
,
opened
so
many
mouths
as
they
had
wounds
,
to
beg
a
pardon
for
the
very
causers
,
and
inflictors
of
them
,
and
more
like
to
Jesus
Christ
himself
,
now
sitting
in
the
midst
of
those
Martyrs
,
and
quickning
by
the
effusion
of
his
blood
,
even
those
,
who
had
their
hands
deep
in
the
shedding
of
it
.
We
have
seen
this
matchlesse
couple
,
onely
Parallel
to
themselves
,
in
all
their
most
elate
,
stirring
,
and
astonishing
,
great
actions
too
,
wherein
they
have
ever
shewed
their
courage
like
Eagles
,
confronting
all
stormes
;
like
Lions
,
which
oppose
all
violences
;
like
Diamonds
never
to
be
broken
;
like
Rocks
,
scorning
all
waves
;
and
Anvills
,
resisting
all
the
stroakes
of
hammers
:
and
in
a
word
,
Ambros
.
in
haec
verba
Genesis
2.
Nomen
fluminis
tertii
,
Tygris
.
like
to
nothing
so
much
,
as
to
the
River
Tygris
,
which
as
blessed
Ambrose
observes
,
Quodam
cursu
rapido
,
resistentia
quaeque
transverberat
,
neque
aliquibus
cursus
ejus
impedimentorum
haeret
obstaculis
:
amongst
all
the
streams
of
the
earth
,
hath
a
current
so
swift
and
violent
,
that
with
an
unresistible
rapidity
and
impetuosity
,
it
combateth
,
and
surmounteth
,
all
the
obstacles
that
can
be
opposed
against
it
:
So
the
Courage
of
these
two
great
and
most
incomparable
Captains
,
did
use
to
flie
through
all
perils
,
break
through
,
and
work
it self
a
passage
,
against
a
whole
world
of
contrarieties
.
We
have
seen
these
two
super-excellent
Persons
,
in
all
their
eminencies
of
State
,
likewise
,
Supreme
Magistracies
,
and
Principalities
;
we
have
seen
them
likewise
in
all
the
perfections
of
their
piety
towards
,
and
worship
of
the
Omnipotent
,
and
the
renunciation
of
their
proper
interests
,
for
the
service
of
the
Deity
:
nay
,
we
have
seen
them
brought
up
by
the
Divine
hand
,
to
the
highest
pitch
of
Prophesie
it self
,
and
yet
their
great
souls
could
not
make
a
stop
there
,
but
must
mount
a
little
higher
;
and
that
indeed
is
the
highest
step
of
all
Princely
perfection
,
as
we
shewed
in
our
last
Ascent
,
to
wit
,
humility
and
meeknesse
of
spirit
.
It
is
most
certain
,
that
great
felicities
,
are
so
ticklish
,
that
it
is
much
more
easie
,
to
live
on
the
dunghill
of
Job
,
with
patience
,
than
in
the
management
of
great
Kingdoms
with
moderation
.
He
therefore
is
to
be
accounted
truly
great
,
Bernard
.
in
Ep.
ad
.
Eugenium
.
as
holy
Bernard
tells
us
,
upon
whom
,
felicitas
si
arrisit
non
irrisit
,
happinesse
has
smiled
upon
,
and
not
cozened
;
nay
,
the
Pagan
Poet
could
preach
as
much
as
that
too
,
Marshal
.
when
he
cries
out
,
Ardua
quippe
res
est
opibus
non
tradere
mares
,
It
is
a
most
difficult
thing
for
a
man
,
not
to
betray
his
manners
,
to
a
great
fortune
.
It
is
doubtlesse
the
heavyest
burden
,
to
bear
a
great
fortune
well
;
we
see
how
apt
the
spirits
of
this
Age
are
,
to
have
their
eyes
dazled
with
a
little
sparkle
of
felicity
;
their
skins
are
presently
puffed
up
,
and
their
souls
drencht
in
some
most
dismal
pride
,
and
a
sad
deluge
of
tyrannies
and
dissolutions
:
We
have
seen
our
Mosaical
spirits
of
another
temper
,
each
of
them
,
like
another
Abdolomin
,
who
did
passe
from
a
Garden
,
into
a
Royal
Palace
,
Abodolomin
.
and
did
handle
the
Scepter
,
with
the
same
humility
of
heart
,
without
either
prejudice
to
the
people
,
or
his
own
authority
,
as
one
would
do
a
spade
.
This
is
a
vertue
indeed
,
which
is
but
very
rarely
seen
here
in
earth
,
but
is
admired
in
heaven
it self
;
and
it
is
a
vertue
doubtlesse
which
comes
immediately
from
the
treasures
of
God
Almighty
;
and
of
this
,
we
have
seen
our
incomparable
paire
of
Princes
,
giving
us
such
an
example
,
as
if
they
were
ordained
by
God
,
to
declare
how
high
Christian
perfection
may
ascend
,
by
planting
of
a
glorious
humiliy
,
upon
the
Diamonds
,
Pearles
,
Emralds
,
Rubies
,
and
Saphyrs
,
of
Regal
Crowns
,
and
leading
in
Courts
,
the
lives
of
Hermits
,
so
commanding
greatnesse
,
and
humility
,
which
seldom
will
admit
of
any
aliance
at
all
,
mutually
to
kisse
,
and
sweetely
embrace
one
another
.
Have
we
not
seen
,
I
say
,
all
this
sufficiently
made
out
already
,
and
that
it
is
,
not
possible
to
find
more
personal
perfectious
heapt
up
in
mortal
men
?
Have
we
not
seen
,
I
say
,
this
heavenly
paire
of
most
incomparable
Persons
,
onely
Parallel
to
one
another
,
like
another
Castor
and
Pollux
,
those
happy
Constellations
of
Mariners
,
from
the
very
first
Port
of
their
Cradels
,
to
the
secure
Harbour
of
a
good
old
age
,
sailing
through
a
boundless
Sea
of
Bliss
,
amidst
the
stormes
of
State
and
War
,
making
all
fair
weather
about
them
,
and
encouraging
us
to
steer
our
course
after
them
,
if
we
can
?
Nay
yet
,
have
we
not
seen
them
,
what
is
more
strange
,
like
two
Phenixes
together
,
yet
incorporated
,
or
twined
at
least
,
like
the
Gemini
in
the
Zodiack
,
flie
through
a
whole
heaven
of
happiness
upon
earth
?
Then
,
whither
are
we
going
now
?
What
,
are
there
any
Ascents
yet
higher
,
for
our
Mosaick
spirits
to
mount
?
Surely
not
,
as
to
their
personall
perfections
aforesaid
,
we
have
said
all
we
can
,
and
seen
as
much
as
we
can
know
,
unless
we
could
take
Post
upon
a
Pegasus
,
and
piercing
the
Empyrean
,
hire
a
Convoy
of
Angels
,
to
carry
us
into
the
beatifical
Heaven
,
to
see
the
Crowns
,
and
Glories
,
that
they
enjoy
.
Whither
is
it
then
,
that
this
Transcendental
Ascent
will
lead
us
?
why
surely
,
to
the
sublime
consideration
of
those
Divine
and
Supereminent
indulgencies
,
priviledges
,
and
prerogatives
,
that
they
enjoyed
,
by
the
extraordinary
favour
of
Heaven
,
towards
their
later
ends
,
which
are
no
lesse
remarkable
certainly
,
than
all
their
former
painful
Ascents
,
before
could
be
;
good
Princes
,
like
the
Sun
,
shining
alwayes
forth
most
gloriously
,
at
their
going
down
.
Now
,
the
first
great
favour
,
and
principal
prerogative
,
that
we
find
our
first
great
Moses
,
had
indulged
to
him
by
Almighty
God
,
was
this
of
our
present
Ascent
,
to
have
the
nomination
of
his
Successor
,
in
so
great
a
Charge
:
For
though
the
Lord
was
pleased
to
elect
,
yet
he
commanded
his
servant
Moses
to
nominate
,
Joshua
to
the
people
,
for
their
Captain
,
and
his
Successor
.
Now
has
not
the
great
goodnesse
of
Heaven
been
graciously
pleased
to
indulge
the
very
same
priviledge
,
and
prerogative
,
to
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
of
glorious
memory
,
our
second
Moses
?
First
for
the
nomination
of
this
happy
Prince
,
that
is
at
present
placed
over
us
,
it
is
evident
,
was
from
his
Highnesse
himself
,
though
the
election
of
him
,
as
indubitably
was
from
God
,
as
that
of
the
great
Joshua
before
him
,
was
:
and
this
liberty
,
or
supreme
power
of
nomination
,
was
given
to
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
by
Almighty
God
,
not
onely
by
a
private
revelation
,
as
the
other
was
;
but
publickly
declared
and
enacted
too
,
by
the
Representatives
of
the
people
assembled
in
Parliament
,
who
are
presum'd
to
carry
Vocem
Dei
,
the
voice
of
God
along
with
them
likewise
:
So
that
on
our
parts
there
remained
nothing
to
be
done
,
but
to
shew
our
dutiful
reception
,
and
active
obedience
,
and
to
hearken
,
as
the
Text
of
our
Ascent
expresseth
it
,
to
all
that
he
shall
say
.
Sic
sui
semper
erit
Arbitrii
jubere
,
sufficiet
&
nobis
sola
obsequii
gloria
,
So
he
shall
have
the
honour
still
to
command
,
and
we
will
satisfie
our selves
with
the
glory
of
obeying
.
But
now
,
whether
this
way
of
a
Divine
election
to
a
Monarchy
,
be
better
,
and
of
a
more
ancient
right
,
than
to
come
to
it
by
an
Hereditary
succession
,
as
to
a
private
Patrimony
(
as
his
Highnesse
himself
expresseth
it
)
though
for
my
part
,
I
think
there
is
no
question
;
yet
I
find
it
to
be
a
dispute
,
De
trop
longue
haleine
,
as
the
Frenchman
speaks
,
of
too
long
breath
,
and
difficult
debate
,
for
our
present
Parallel
;
So
I
shall
refer
it
till
another
occasion
,
and
desire
the
Reader
in
the
mean
time
,
to
accept
of
his
late
most
Serene
Highness
his
own
excellent
words
(
in
the
Speech
before
cited
)
for
a
full
decision
of
the
Controversie
.
For
if
you
had
upon
the
old
Government
offered
to
me
this
one
,
this
one
thing
,
I
speak
,
as
thus
advised
,
and
before
God
,
as
having
been
to
this
day
of
this
opinion
,
and
this
hath
been
my
constant
Judgement
,
well
known
to
many
that
hear
me
speak
,
if
this
one
thing
had
been
inserted
,
that
one
thing
,
that
this
Government
should
have
been
,
and
placed
in
my
Family
Hereditary
,
I
would
have
rejected
it
,
and
I
could
have
done
no
other
,
according
to
my
present
Conscience
and
Light
;
I
will
tell
you
my
reason
,
though
I
cannot
tell
what
God
will
do
with
Me
,
not
You
,
nor
the
Nation
,
for
throwing
away
precious
opportunities
committed
to
U
S.
This
hath
been
my
Principle
,
and
I
liked
it
when
this
Government
came
first
to
be
proposed
to
me
,
That
it
put
Us
off
that
Hereditary
way
,
well
looking
,
that
as
God
had
declared
what
GOVERNMENT
he
had
delivered
over
to
the
Jews
,
and
placed
it
upon
such
persons
as
had
been
instrumental
for
the
Conduct
and
Deliverance
of
his
People
;
And
considering
that
promise
in
Isaiah
,
That
God
would
give
Rulers
as
at
the
first
,
and
Judges
as
at
the
beginning
,
I
did
not
know
,
but
that
God
might
begin
,
and
though
at
present
with
a
most
unworthy
Person
,
yet
as
to
the
future
,
it
might
be
after
this
manner
,
and
I
thought
this
might
usher
it
in
.
I
am
speaking
as
to
my
Judgement
,
against
making
it
Hereditary
,
to
have
men
chosen
for
their
Love
to
God
,
and
to
Truth
,
and
Justice
,
and
not
to
have
it
Hereditary
;
for
as
it
is
in
Ecclesiastes
,
Who
knoweth
whether
he
may
beget
a
Fool
or
Wise
:
honest
or
not
,
what
ever
they
be
must
come
in
upon
that
account
,
because
the
Government
is
made
a
Patrimony
.
Thus
we
see
,
how
his
most
Serene
Highness
has
put
it
clearly
out
of
question
,
that
an
ordinary
fair
Election
of
a
Prince
,
is
much
better
like
to
prove
,
than
any
casual
hereditary
succession
:
much
more
then
must
an
extraordinary
,
and
Divine
Election
,
as
ours
has
been
,
be
more
acceptable
to
God
and
man
,
and
prove
to
be
more
prosperous
to
the
People
:
But
most
especially
when
the
whole
World
,
is
satisfied
in
the
Divine
endowments
of
the
Person
Elected
,
as
we
have
been
all
,
in
the
behalf
of
this
most
gracious
Prince
,
our
present
Lord
Protector
,
whom
his
Mosaical
Highnesse
,
has
been
pleased
to
nominate
,
and
bequeath
to
us
,
for
his
Successor
;
and
of
whom
we
can
conclude
no
otherwise
,
than
what
the
Spirit
of
God
has
done
concerning
Joshua
;
Deut.
34.9
That
he
is
full
of
the
Spirit
of
Wisdom
,
for
our
second
Moses
has
laid
his
happy
hands
upon
him
,
so
the
whole
Nation
shall
hearken
unto
him
,
and
he
shall
do
as
the
Lord
commanded
our
second
Moses
:
as
we
shall
see
more
amply
made
out
,
in
the
following
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
The
second
Transcendental
Ascent
.
MOses
was
permitted
,
and
commanded
by
God
,
to
nominate
one
for
his
Successor
,
that
had
a
very
near
relation
to
him
,
his
own
houshold
Servant
,
his
Minister
,
or
Menial
Attendant
in
his
Family
;
for
so
was
Joshua
,
as
we
find
in
several
places
of
holy
Scripture
:
Num.
11.28
.
as
first
in
the
Book
of
Numbers
:
And
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun
,
the
servant
of
Moses
,
one
of
his
young
men
,
answered
and
said
,
&c.
Then
,
Josh.
1.1
.
It
came
to
passe
that
the
Lord
spake
unto
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun
,
Moses
Minister
,
saying
,
&c.
The
Parallel
.
We
do
not
finde
in
any
part
of
Holy
Writ
,
that
the
great
Patriarch
Moses
,
had
any
son
capable
of
this
great
Charge
,
to
succeed
him
,
in
the
Government
of
Gods
people
:
There
is
indeed
,
mention
of
the
Circumcision
of
one
,
but
never
any
thing
more
spoken
of
him
;
So
it
is
to
be
presumed
,
that
either
he
had
none
living
,
or
at
least
,
as
we
said
before
,
not
capable
of
so
great
a
Charge
.
God
Almighty
in
the
mean
time
,
brings
this
high
favour
and
prerogative
,
as
near
to
him
,
as
possibly
might
be
,
next
to
the
nomination
of
a
son
,
which
(
as
it
seems
)
by
humane
collection
,
then
could
not
be
.
In
the
mean
time
,
it
may
be
worth
our
while
,
to
sit
and
consider
the
Transcendency
of
Divine
Favour
,
and
Priviledge
,
that
our
great
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
had
in
this
particular
,
above
his
Prototype
the
first
;
whilst
he
has
been
,
as
we
have
seen
,
permitted
,
and
directed
,
by
God
,
to
nominate
his
own
son
;
nay
,
his
Eldest
son
to
succeed
him
in
the
Soveraign
Charge
,
the
other
being
commanded
to
choose
,
but
his
Menial
Servant
,
and
Minister
,
and
that
was
a
Divine
favour
too
.
Herein
,
I
say
,
our
second
Moses
has
out
stript
his
pattern
;
and
our
Parallel
here
must
over-ballance
the
Ascent
it self
,
For
so
much
as
a
son
,
and
an
Eldest
son
,
ought
to
be
above
a
Servant
,
in
the
respect
,
and
reputation
,
of
any
Father
of
a
Family
,
so
much
more
of
favour
,
and
indulgency
extraordinary
,
found
our
glorious
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
,
from
the
hands
of
God
,
than
that
great
Patriarch
himself
,
his
first
dear
Favourite
,
the
former
Moses
did
.
O
stupendious
transcendencies
of
Divine
love
!
O
happy
Priviledges
of
a
Prince
,
and
Prerogatives
unexpressible
!
O
Soveraigne
Favours
of
Heaven
,
undeniable
!
What
man
living
is
there
now
upon
the
face
of
the
Earth
,
that
can
dispute
,
whether
it
be
not
a
most
sublime
instance
of
the
Almighties
affections
,
to
any
Fathers
,
it
being
granted
(
which
I
hope
will
not
be
denied
)
that
he
is
the
Soveraign
Mover
,
and
Architect
of
our
lives
and
fortunes
;
when
he
is
pleased
to
propagate
their
greatnesse
,
and
glories
to
their
children
?
it
being
doubtlesse
the
greatest
temporal
dispensation
,
that
men
of
honour
can
be
capable
of
upon
Earth
,
to
have
a
flourishing
Posterity
given
them
by
God
,
which
may
make
them
eternally
to
live
in
the
memory
of
men
,
by
those
most
lively
images
of
their
vertues
.
It
has
been
,
we
know
,
observed
by
the
vertuous
in
all
Ages
,
that
those
Princes
and
great
Persons
,
that
have
lived
any
way
sordidly
,
or
viciously
,
fatting
themselves
with
the
blood
and
sweat
of
the
poor
,
or
have
establisht
any
Tyrannies
in
the
World
,
have
neither
been
fruitful
,
nor
fortunate
,
in
their
Posterites
:
and
as
Nature
has
ever
shewed
it self
to
be
scanty
in
the
propagation
of
beasts
of
prey
,
as
Wolves
and
other
creatures
,
designed
onely
for
spoil
,
and
no
other
use
,
which
would
otherwise
soon
bring
the
earth
into
desolation
:
So
Almighty
God
,
by
a
secret
oeconomy
of
his
Divine
Providence
,
permitteth
not
the
Princes
,
or
Potentates
,
who
have
made
themselves
disturbers
of
the
Publick
peace
,
and
infringers
of
Laws
,
both
Divine
and
Humane
,
(
whereof
they
ought
to
be
Protectors
)
should
make
the
brutishnesse
of
their
savage
souls
,
to
survive
them
in
their
Posterities
.
Now
,
not
to
go
far
from
home
for
an
example
,
nor
yet
much
distant
from
the
present
Age
;
I
shall
produce
for
an
instance
,
of
this
great
truth
,
a
late
Prince
of
our
own
,
that
was
Henry
the
Eighth
,
who
whilst
he
lived
,
made
all
Laws
his
slaves
,
and
his
passions
his
Masters
,
as
unquestionable
a
Tyrant
,
as
ever
breathed
,
who
left
three
children
,
that
all
successively
sate
in
the
Throne
after
him
,
yet
none
of
them
had
the
power
to
propagate
any
issue
to
perpetuate
him
,
nor
yet
so
much
as
to
erect
a
Tomb
for
him
;
and
he
can
to
this
day
,
boast
of
no
other
Monument
to
record
his
memory
to
the
World
,
but
the
same
which
he
left
behind
him
,
Erostratus
.
who
did
make
his
ambitious
brag
of
the
burning
of
Diana's
Temple
:
and
which
is
most
to
our
present
purpose
,
though
hinted
before
,
again
to
be
noted
;
after
his
death
,
as
if
the
Lord
would
explicate
his
own
indignation
,
and
with
his
dreadful
hand
had
,
written
upon
the
walls
of
his
Palace
,
Mane
,
Thekel
,
Pharez
,
as
his
Divine
Judgement
against
him
,
and
all
his
posterity
;
all
his
then
hopeful
and
very
glorious
stem
,
and
branches
,
were
soon
withered
away
or
cut
off
,
without
any
issue
at
all
,
and
the
Crown
and
Scepter
was
so
,
quickly
translated
to
another
Name
and
Nation
,
quite
contrary
to
the
Tyrants
intentions
,
and
the
projects
both
of
his
will
,
and
Statute
.
Then
what
has
been
the
Catastrophe
,
or
sad
issue
of
that
Family
too
,
for
treading
in
his
most
unfortunate
foot-steps
,
we
of
this
Age
,
have
fully
seen
;
for
no
one
of
them
,
that
I
know
of
yet
,
has
died
a
natural
death
,
and
the
last
prince
we
had
of
that
Line
,
lost
his
whole
head-ship
of
the
Church
,
with
his
Prerogative
and
Soveraignty
over
Laws
,
so
much
desired
and
contended
for
,
in
those
dayes
,
upon
a
pitiful
Scaffold
,
erected
before
the
Porch
of
that
Palace
,
where
his
impious
Predecessor
,
that
Henry
the
Eighth
,
the
first
of
all
Kings
inhabited
,
and
his
body
by
a
strange
providence
,
without
any
forefight
or
contrivance
of
man
at
all
,
was
carried
to
Windsor
,
and
there
deposited
in
the
same
Vault
with
him
.
Then
look
upon
his
disastrous
issue
,
and
we
shall
finde
,
his
whole
posterity
too
,
has
been
so
exterminated
here
,
that
there
is
not
so
much
as
the
print
of
a
foot-step
of
them
left
to
be
seen
amongst
us
.
This
one
instance
,
I
say
,
that
we
have
started
,
so
near
our
own
doors
,
though
it
might
serve
for
all
;
for
as
the
judicious
Spaniard
tells
us
,
En
los
casos
raros
,
Anton.
Perez
.
uno
solo
exemplo
haze
experiencia
,
In
such
rare
occasions
,
one
example
is
enough
to
prescribe
,
and
to
make
experience
:
and
the
acute
Philip
de
Commines
,
Phil.
de
Com.
observes
,
That
the
example
of
one
sole
accident
,
is
enough
sometimes
to
make
men
wise
:
yet
I
could
alledge
a
thousand
more
to
this
purpose
,
if
the
necessity
of
our
main
businesse
would
permit
:
but
I
must
hasten
.
Now
,
on
the
contrary
,
observe
how
Ecclesiasticus
prophesies
,
Eccles.
44.11
.
With
the
seed
of
the
righteous
shall
continually
remain
a
good
inheritance
,
and
their
children
are
within
the
Covenant
:
Ver.
12.
Their
seed
stands
fast
,
and
their
children
for
their
sakes
:
Ver.
13.
Their
seed
shall
remain
for
ever
,
and
their
glory
shall
not
be
blotted
out
.
And
we
have
as
clearly
found
in
our
experience
,
that
all
those
Princes
,
and
great
Persons
,
who
have
arranged
themselves
,
within
the
lists
of
Sanctity
,
Modesty
,
and
the
observation
of
Laws
,
the
Lord
hath
as
it
were
,
immortaliz'd
their
bloods
,
in
their
happy
Posterities
,
as
we
do
now
see
it
made
good
,
in
this
our
precious
Parallel
,
and
might
in
many
thousands
more
of
Royal
,
Princely
,
Noble
,
and
Illustrious
Families
besides
,
which
I
have
as
little
liberty
at
present
to
produce
:
so
shall
refer
to
every
Readers
more
particular
observation
:
whilst
I
that
write
,
and
every
temperate
person
,
I
hope
,
that
reades
,
shall
rest
abundantly
satisfied
in
the
point
,
that
it
was
a
most
irrefragable
favour
of
God
Almighties
towards
us
,
as
well
as
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
to
give
him
leave
,
and
to
direct
him
,
to
establish
his
Throne
in
the
best
of
his
own
blood
,
and
to
leave
a
Prince
behind
him
,
to
govern
us
,
that
he
was
certain
,
was
so
much
of
his
own
heavenly
make
,
that
he
can
never
degenerate
from
those
his
high
,
holy
,
and
most
heroick
vertues
;
as
we
may
see
more
at
large
,
in
the
succeeding
Ascent
,
and
Parallel
.
The
third
Transcendental
Ascent
.
MOses
drawing
nearer
towards
his
death
,
had
the
honour
and
favour
,
Num.
27.18
.
to
be
commanded
by
the
Almighty
,
to
lay
his
holy
hands
upon
his
Successor
Joshua
,
and
to
blesse
him
,
and
to
put
some
of
his
honour
upon
him
,
Vers.
20.
that
all
the
Congregation
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
might
be
obedient
,
&c.
Then
the
Lord
commanded
Moses
to
charge
Joshua
,
and
encourage
him
,
assuring
him
,
that
he
should
go
over
before
his
people
,
and
that
he
should
cause
them
to
inherite
the
Land
which
he
should
see
.
And
last
of
all
,
when
Moses
was
upon
the
point
of
his
departure
,
Deut.
3.27
▪
Vers.
28.
the
Lord
himself
was
pleased
to
condescend
,
to
give
to
Joshua
this
particular
Charge
,
before
Moses
his
own
face
.
Be
strong
,
and
of
a
good
courage
,
for
thou
shalt
bring
the
children
of
Israel
into
the
Land
which
I
sware
unto
them
,
and
I
will
be
with
thee
:
Now
all
this
could
not
but
be
a
most
extraordinary
comfort
,
Deut.
31
23.
as
it
was
a
high
transcendent
prerogative
,
to
the
departing
Patriarch
.
The
Parallel
.
That
this
was
a
most
Princely
,
and
Supreme
priviledge
,
which
our
first
Moses
by
the
favour
of
Heaven
,
enjoyed
;
to
lay
his
hands
upon
,
blesse
,
and
put
some
of
his
own
spirit
upon
his
Successor
,
in
his
life
time
;
I
presume
,
none
will
dispute
,
and
as
little
can
any
man
,
I
hope
,
doubt
,
but
that
our
second
Moses
too
,
was
indulged
by
God
a
Parallel
prerogative
,
and
did
the
very
like
,
to
his
most
gracious
Son
and
successor
:
knowing
him
,
as
we
all
have
done
,
to
have
ever
been
,
a
most
prudent
,
pious
,
and
indulgent
Father
of
his
Country
,
and
so
by
consequence
,
he
must
have
been
much
more
of
his
own
Family
,
and
most
of
all
of
his
Eldest
Son
,
who
was
not
onely
to
be
the
Head
of
that
,
but
of
three
Kingdoms
,
and
other
vast
Dominions
,
and
Territories
,
thereto
belonging
.
Nay
,
that
he
did
actually
part
with
some
of
his
honour
,
to
put
upon
him
,
in
his
own
life
time
,
was
made
notoriously
evident
,
in
his
resignation
of
that
high
Title
of
Chancellor
of
the
Universitie
of
Oxford
;
I
say
again
,
high
Title
,
and
take
it
to
be
the
highest
,
next
to
the
Soveraignty
it self
▪
that
England
can
afford
.
Who
can
imagine
it
lesse
,
that
knowes
that
University
to
be
one
of
the
four
Cardinal
,
most
Ancient
,
Famous
,
and
Flourishing
Universities
,
in
the
Christian
World
?
that
has
been
ever
acknowledged
by
Forreigners
themselves
,
to
have
been
the
happy
Seminary
of
the
greatest
spirits
,
which
have
held
predominance
in
all
manner
of
Learning
,
and
Sciences
,
and
was
ever
lookt
upon
,
as
the
glorious
Altar
of
the
Sun
,
from
whence
light
was
wont
to
be
borrowed
,
to
illuminate
all
other
lamps
.
To
be
the
Head
,
I
say
,
of
this
most
glorious
Body
,
who
can
deny
to
be
equal
to
so
great
and
good
a
Father
to
give
,
and
to
so
hopeful
and
gracious
a
Son
,
as
was
this
our
present
Protector
,
and
second
Joshua
to
receive
?
Then
as
to
the
other
part
of
this
grand
Mosaick
Prerogative
,
held
forth
in
our
Ascent
,
lesse
doubt
sure
must
be
made
,
that
his
late
Highnesse
was
most
thoroughly
assured
of
the
great
worth
,
and
due
deserving
of
his
Successor
,
as
also
of
his
great
felicity
and
prosperous
successes
,
in
all
his
future
undertakings
.
First
,
by
reason
of
his
Highnesse
his
great
illuminations
,
and
particular
revelations
,
that
he
had
from
God
himself
,
(
as
we
have
sufficiently
seen
in
all
his
actions
before
)
which
certainly
could
not
fail
him
now
,
in
so
important
an
affaire
as
this
,
that
so
nearly
did
concern
,
the
happinesse
of
so
great
a
people
.
Secondly
,
he
that
had
so
clear
and
thorough
an
inspection
,
into
the
aptitude
of
all
his
Officers
,
that
he
employed
,
as
we
have
likewise
seen
in
those
Ascents
,
that
treat
of
his
Election
of
them
,
how
could
he
choose
but
have
an
insight
extraordinary
into
the
due
merit
,
and
high
deservings
of
his
own
Son
?
None
sure
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
,
Josh.
1.5
.
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
;
V.
6.
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
,
V.
7.
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
,
V.
8.
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
,
V.
9.
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
,
V.
16.
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
;
V.
17.
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
;
V.
18.
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
his
own
most
serene
soul
but
what
the
people
say
every
where
,
we
are
all
ear-witnesses
sufficient
:
the
people
,
I
say
,
who
have
ever
lookt
upon
him
,
as
the
dearest
delight
of
their
eyes
:
and
as
the
Orator
said
of
his
Emperour
,
Constantine
,
Plin.
in
Paneg.
Constant
.
Magis
magisque
visus
expetitur
,
&
(
novum
dictu
)
vel
praesens
disideratur
:
The
more
he
is
seen
,
the
more
he
is
lookt
after
;
and
,
which
is
more
strange
,
though
he
be
still
present
with
them
,
yet
he
is
alwayes
most
greedily
desired
,
and
longed
for
by
them
:
Insomuch
,
that
I
dare
boldly
say
,
had
the
election
of
a
Prince
been
put
to
the
Popular
choice
,
and
all
the
prime
spirits
of
the
Nation
,
had
been
cull'd
out
,
to
pretend
for
the
Protectorat
,
his
most
serene
Highnesse
,
that
now
is
,
would
have
been
the
person
,
that
they
must
have
pitched
upon
by
Universal
vote
,
and
carried
to
the
Throne
,
where
he
is
seated
now
,
with
General
joy
,
and
acclamations
.
A
Prince
he
is
,
without
flattery
be
it
spoken
(
for
he
is
known
to
be
so
)
of
most
incomparable
great
piety
,
&
most
worthy
parts
:
A
Prince
,
I
say
,
wise
as
Apollo
,
beautiful
as
an
Amazon
,
and
valiant
as
Achilles
;
and
having
over
and
above
all
that
,
the
sacred
spirit
of
wisdom
,
courage
,
and
devotion
,
of
a
Joshua
,
and
coming
to
the
Helme
of
this
Government
,
as
we
have
seen
,
by
Divine
institution
,
as
he
did
into
that
;
Who
can
at
all
doubt
,
but
at
the
sight
of
such
supreme
,
excellent
,
and
most
celestial
qualities
,
Walls
and
Cities
impregnable
,
shall
fall
before
him
too
;
Gyants
shall
wax
pale
,
and
be
discomfited
;
Rivers
shall
retire
back
,
the
Sun
it self
shall
stand
still
,
and
as
many
Kings
shall
undergoe
the
yoke
?
And
to
this
,
all
England
shall
say
,
Amen
.
The
fourth
Transcendental
Ascent
.
MOses
was
by
the
great
favour
of
the
Almighty
,
permitted
to
see
the
promised
Land
:
First
the
Lord
commands
him
Thus
;
Get
thee
inup
to
the
top
of
Pisgah
,
and
lift
up
thine
eyes
Westward
,
and
Northward
,
Deut.
3.27
.
and
Southward
,
and
Eastward
,
and
behold
it
with
thine
eyes
.
Then
when
the
time
of
his
departure
came
,
we
find
,
that
Moses
did
accordingly
go
up
from
the
plain
of
Moab
,
unto
the
Mountain
of
Nebo
,
to
the
top
of
Pisgah
,
Deut.
34.1
.
that
is
over
against
Jericho
,
and
the
Lord
shewed
him
all
the
Land
of
Gilead
unto
Dan
,
and
all
Napthali
,
and
the
Land
of
Ephraim
,
and
Manasseth
,
and
all
the
Land
of
Judah
,
unto
the
utmost
Sea
,
and
the
South
,
and
the
plain
of
the
Valley
of
Jericho
,
Ver.
2.
the
City
of
Palm-trees
unto
Zoar
:
and
the
Lord
said
unto
him
,
This
is
the
Land
which
I
sware
unto
Abraham
,
Vers.
3.
and
unto
Isaac
,
and
unto
Jacob
,
saying
;
Vers.
4.
I
will
give
it
unto
thy
seed
:
I
have
caused
thee
to
see
it
with
thine
eyes
,
but
thou
shalt
not
go
over
thither
.
The
Parallel
.
There
is
no
man
will
deny
sure
,
that
this
was
a
very
transcendent
favour
and
priviledge
,
indulged
by
God
,
to
this
blessed
Patriarch
.
And
has
our
second
Moses
received
lesse
favourable
kindnesse
from
the
hands
of
the
Almighty
?
Nay
,
has
he
not
in
this
too
,
infinitely
outgone
the
prerogatives
of
his
Pattern
,
and
great
Prototype
?
Yes
certainly
,
as
far
,
as
fruition
can
exceed
an
expectation
,
or
a
possession
surpasseth
a
bare
prospect
onely
;
so
much
more
of
priviledge
and
favour
,
did
our
second
Moses
find
,
from
the
goodnsse
of
his
Heavenly
Father
,
and
receive
,
beyond
the
former
:
For
the
sacred
Text
most
plainly
affirmes
,
that
the
great
Patriarch
Moses
,
was
permitted
onely
to
see
the
Land
of
Promise
,
and
take
his
bare
view
,
of
that
beloved
Country
of
sweet
Canaan
,
or
Palestine
,
then
flowing
with
Milk
and
Honey
,
and
towards
which
,
he
had
been
above
forty
years
a
marching
in
the
Head
of
his
most
mutinous
,
and
troublesome
Army
,
yet
not
suffered
to
enter
.
But
has
not
our
sacred
second
Moses
made
his
entry
?
Has
he
not
onely
entred
,
but
enjoyed
for
divers
years
his
land
of
Promise
?
Has
he
not
driven
out
all
his
enemies
before
him
,
and
made
so
happy
an
end
of
his
great
Works
,
as
to
have
been
well
and
securely
setled
,
in
the
quiet
possession
and
government
of
his
acquired
Dominions
,
and
Territories
?
Nay
how
much
more
advantageous
was
this
favour
to
his
late
Highnesse
,
in
respect
of
his
Successor
too
,
than
that
which
his
Archetype
,
the
former
Moses
had
.
His
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
we
see
,
has
left
his
Princely
Son
to
succeed
him
in
a
cleer
estate
,
and
free
from
any
incombrances
,
either
at
home
,
or
abroad
:
and
indeed
those
few
forraign
broyls
,
that
we
are
ingaged
in
,
may
be
rather
called
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
his
sports
,
and
pretty
divertisements
,
than
any
matters
of
troublesom
businesse
,
and
must
prove
to
be
more
profitable
than
dangerous
:
Whereas
the
former
good
Moses
,
left
his
succeeding
Joshua
,
not
a
foot
of
land
,
but
what
he
was
to
fight
for
,
and
could
make
him
indeed
heir
apparent
to
nothing
,
but
his
sword
:
and
leave
him
,
as
it
were
,
a
meer
Souldier
of
Fortune
,
to
cut
his
way
out
to
his
expectations
.
Though
this
was
very
true
,
that
the
Divine
Patriarch
knew
full
well
,
that
the
Lords
promises
,
and
blessed
providence
would
be
to
him
a
most
secure
inheritance
;
yet
none
can
deny
,
that
this
favour
of
Heaven
must
in
any
indifferent
esteem
,
fall
short
of
that
,
which
was
vouchsafed
to
our
second
Moses
,
as
much
as
an
estate
that
is
litigious
,
and
imbrangled
with
law
suits
,
is
to
be
undervalued
to
a
cleer
one
,
that
is
in
quiet
and
undisturbed
possession
;
or
the
miserable
condition
of
war
,
is
worse
than
the
most
happy
halcyon
state
of
Peace
.
Are
not
these
Transcendencies
indeed
?
so
strange
and
copious
priviledges
&
prerogatives
,
that
the
great
goodness
of
Heaven
,
never
indulged
more
to
any
man
,
than
it
has
done
to
our
second
Moses
,
in
which
he
has
so
far
outgone
his
very
Original
Master
,
that
grand
dear
Favorite
of
Heaven
himself
,
our
first
Moses
;
that
we
may
securely
say
,
that
Moses
himself
has
fallen
as
short
of
his
late
Highnesse
,
our
unparallel'd
Protector
,
in
some
of
these
divine
indulgencies
,
as
he
our
glorious
second
could
fail
in
perfection
of
Parallel
to
the
blessed
first
,
in
any
of
the
former
difficult
Ascents
.
But
I
cannot
now
insist
upon
them
,
for
I
do
find
that
our
discourses
have
swell'd
already
to
too
big
a
volumn
,
so
it
is
time
to
withdraw
into
the
Tabernacle
of
Repose
,
and
there
set
up
,
if
we
can
,
our
rests
with
theirs
.
The
fifth
Transcendental
Ascent
.
MOses
is
now
mounting
of
his
last
living
Ascent
,
for
the
Holy
Text
tells
us
,
Deut.
34.1
.
that
he
went
up
from
the
Plains
of
Moab
,
into
the
Mountain
of
Nebo
,
to
the
top
of
Pisgah
,
over
against
Jericho
,
&c.
And
after
he
had
satisfied
himself
with
the
fair
prospect
of
the
Promised
Land
,
he
willingly
steps
into
his
so
much
longed
for
Tabernacle
of
Repose
.
Ver.
5.
So
Moses
,
the
servant
of
the
Lord
,
died
there
in
the
land
of
Moab
,
Ver.
6.
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord
.
And
he
buried
him
in
a
Vally
in
the
land
of
Moab
,
over
against
Beth-peor
,
Ver.
7.
but
no
man
knows
of
his
Sepulcher
unto
this
day
.
And
Moses
was
a
hundred
and
twenty
years
old
,
Ver.
8.
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
,
Tatitus
.
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
,
Plato
in
Timao
.
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
,
Juven.
sat
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
,
Lucan
.
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
,
and
all
the
Elements
under
his
feet
,
than
he
could
possibly
be
here
,
with
beholding
them
over
his
head
.
In
short
,
who
would
think
it
much
(
I
am
sure
his
Highnesse
did
not
)
to
give
up
the
life
of
a
Pismire
(
for
the
greatest
Prince's
upon
earth
,
is
no
better
)
in
exchange
for
immortality
?
he
had
alwayes
,
we
know
,
like
a
good
Christian
,
death
in
his
desire
,
and
life
in
patience
.
This
truly
I
should
presume
sufficient
to
satisfie
and
comfort
any
reasonable
Christians
,
for
the
losse
(
as
we
call
it
)
of
his
late
Highness
:
But
setting
Christianity
aside
,
methinks
it
should
be
satisfactory
enough
for
common
men
,
to
consider
,
that
as
the
Poet
tells
us
,
Lex
est
,
non
paena
perire
,
Ovid.
Senec.
natural
quaest.
l.
2.
and
what
the
Philosopher
assures
us
;
that
mors
naturae
lex
est
,
mors
tributum
officiumque
est
mortalium
,
death
is
a
law
of
nature
,
no
punishment
,
it
is
the
very
tribute
,
and
duty
of
mortals
:
And
what
Plutarch
,
not
more
elegantly
,
than
truly
,
concludes
,
Homines
sicut
poma
,
aut
matura
cadunt
,
Plut.
in
vita
Pomp.
aut
acerba
ruunt
,
Men
,
like
Apples
,
must
either
fall
ripe
,
or
be
pulled
down
green
and
sower
.
Now
I
would
fain
know
,
what
have
we
to
complain
of
?
Did
not
his
Highnesse
live
to
a
very
fair
,
and
good
old
age
,
to
a
true
Mosaick
maturity
,
For
,
as
was
said
before
,
if
by
Chronological
Computation
,
our
second
Moses
,
his
forty
years
,
were
parallel
to
the
fourscore
of
the
former
when
he
came
into
publick
employment
,
then
his
threescore
and
upwards
,
when
he
came
to
dye
,
stands
still
parallel
with
the
others
hundred
and
twenty
:
and
as
for
their
strength
of
body
and
mind
,
none
can
affirm
him
to
be
lesse
his
parallel
to
the
very
last
:
For
his
Highness
eye
was
not
dim
,
nor
any
of
his
natural
force
abated
.
Thus
his
gracious
God
,
and
benigne
nature
plentifully
provided
,
for
that
great
and
most
incomparable
person
,
that
his
most
invincible
spirit
,
should
never
quaile
under
any
sensible
decay
of
flesh
.
What
more
of
favour
,
I
would
fain
know
,
could
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
receive
from
the
bountiful
hands
of
Heaven
?
Yet
some
spirits
there
are
,
so
disposed
to
quarrel
with
the
Almighty
,
that
they
will
not
yet
be
satisfied
in
the
divine
dispensation
,
but
think
,
and
say
,
(
I
pray
God
not
impiously
)
that
the
heavenly
and
eternal
Father
,
should
have
permitted
some
more
time
of
life
to
a
person
so
deserving
it
;
but
let
them
remember
,
that
mors
aequopede
pulsat
,
Senec.
Tray.
Senec
,
epist.
100.
idem
.
epist.
67.
and
that
intervallis
distinguimar
,
exitu
aequamur
,
greatnesse
nor
goodness
neither
can
give
any
priviledge
from
death
,
mors
omnium
par
est
,
per
quae
venit
diversa
sunt
,
id
in
quod
desinit
,
unum
est
,
death
,
though
by
several
waies
,
brings
all
to
the
same
end
.
These
considerations
sure
,
though
drawn
from
meer
Heathens
,
would
be
enough
to
satisfie
any
common
understandings
of
men
:
but
these
quarrelsome
persons
,
that
we
speak
of
,
sure
are
of
opinion
,
that
all
happinesse
is
determined
to
this
poor
life
;
and
are
,
I
fear
,
very
neer
akin
to
those
,
whom
Plato
calls
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Plato
:
whose
souls
are
so
great
lovers
of
their
bodies
,
that
they
would
tye
themselves
to
their
flesh
,
as
closoe
as
they
could
,
and
after
death
would
,
as
he
prettily
expresseth
it
,
still
walk
round
about
their
bodies
,
to
see
if
they
could
find
a
passage
into
them
again
.
How
much
is
this
pittiful
humor
of
Christians
,
below
the
divine
Philosophy
of
Pagans
themselves
?
Amongst
whom
we
find
,
that
there
were
a
certain
people
,
who
by
positive
laws
,
forbad
any
man
of
fifty
years
of
age
,
to
make
use
of
the
Physitian
,
saying
,
that
it
discovered
too
much
love
of
life
:
and
yet
some
Christians
we
find
at
the
age
of
fourscore
,
who
will
not
endure
to
hear
a
word
of
death
:
but
of
this
sad
sottish
temper
,
we
know
his
Mosaical
Highnesse
was
not
,
he
never
valued
the
putting
off
his
life
,
more
than
the
shifting
of
his
shirt
,
and
when
he
received
his
citation
from
Heaven
,
he
as
readily
obeyed
,
as
his
Master
Moses
did
,
to
ascend
his
fatal
Mount
:
I
pray
you
then
be
quiet
you
cruel
friends
,
and
do
not
disturb
his
honored
dust
,
now
sweetly
resting
in
his
Tabernacle
of
Repose
;
for
if
you
consider
rightly
,
you
are
bound
,
as
the
Orator
tells
you
,
Plin.
Paney
Non
tam
vitam
illi
ereptam
,
quam
mortem
donatam
censere
,
not
so
much
to
think
him
bereft
of
life
,
as
to
have
been
endowed
with
death
,
in
a
ripe
old
age
,
and
after
the
enjoyment
of
the
fruits
of
all
his
labours
.
Hath
not
this
most
incomparable
person
,
resembled
truely
the
great
Ark
in
the
deluge
,
which
after
it
had
borne
the
whole
World
in
the
bowels
of
it
,
amongst
so
many
storms
,
and
fatal
convulsions
of
nature
,
at
length
reposed
it self
,
in
the
Mountains
of
Armenia
?
So
this
most
admirable
Prince
,
after
he
had
carried
in
his
heart
,
and
entrals
a
spirit
,
great
as
the
universe
it self
,
amonst
so
many
tears
,
dolours
,
and
cruel
acerbities
of
contradictions
,
and
had
delivered
himself
of
that
painful
burthen
,
that
is
,
had
brought
forth
our
most
happy
and
establisht
peace
,
he
stopt
upon
Mount
Nebo
,
and
from
thence
went
to
take
his
rest
,
in
the
Mountains
of
Sion
.
Thus
the
Lord
,
like
an
indulgent
Father
of
a
Family
,
sends
his
servants
to
bed
,
so
soon
as
they
have
done
their
work
:
it
being
all
the
justice
and
reason
in
the
World
,
that
they
who
rise
betimes
to
serve
him
,
and
work
hard
all
the
day
for
him
,
should
go
in
as
good
time
,
to
sleep
with
him
.
Let
us
I
beseech
you
therefore
passe
over
this
death
,
in
the
manner
of
holy
Scripture
,
which
speaks
but
one
word
onely
of
the
death
of
so
many
great
personages
.
Let
us
never
so
much
as
talk
of
death
in
a
subject
so
wholly
replenisht
with
immortality
.
O
what
a
death
is
that
,
to
be
esteemed
,
to
see
vice
and
sin
trodden
down
under
his
feet
,
and
Heaven
all
in
Crowns
over
his
head
,
to
see
men
in
admiration
,
all
the
Angels
in
joy
,
and
the
arms
of
God
ready
to
receive
him
,
and
fully
laden
with
recompenses
for
his
great
services
.
Nay
,
that
the
Lord
did
purposely
and
expressely
intend
to
make
his
Highness
his
death
appear
to
be
a
most
signal
reward
and
perfect
victory
to
him
,
and
that
he
should
carry
off
the
spoiles
of
life
it self
with
more
triumph
,
than
ever
mortal
did
,
is
made
manifest
in
that
it
pleased
his
divine
Majesty
to
take
him
to
himself
,
upon
that
most
memorable
day
,
the
third
of
September
,
the
greatest
day
of
all
his
humane
glories
:
that
he
was
pleased
to
put
an
end
to
his
life
,
in
this
World
,
that
very
day
that
he
had
got
such
an
immortality
in
fame
:
to
set
a
period
to
his
labours
that
very
day
,
that
he
had
performed
so
many
Herculian
ones
,
for
the
glory
of
his
God
,
and
his
Countries
good
;
and
to
crown
his
daies
with
so
glorious
a
close
,
nay
to
give
him
a
heavenly
Crown
,
that
very
day
that
he
had
gotten
so
many
earthly
ones
,
and
loaden
his
Victorious
Temples
,
with
so
many
flourishing
Laurels
of
eternal
renown
,
Then
for
the
glorious
burial
of
our
second
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
,
Deut.
34.10
.
Ver.
11.
Ver.
12.
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
,
Eccles.
44.9
.
who
are
perished
,
as
though
they
had
never
been
,
V.
10.
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
;
V.
14.
nay
further
,
the
people
will
tell
of
their
wisdom
,
V.
15.
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
indeed
,
and
worthy
of
exception
,
in
so
debaucht
an
age
,
as
this
.
But
let
such
unsavory
breaths
as
these
,
blow
how
,
and
where
they
please
,
whilest
all
the
sweet
ones
of
the
Nation
,
shall
preserve
a
fragrant
memory
of
their
departed
Protector
,
and
second
Moses
;
ever
acknowledgeing
their
lives
and
fortunes
,
nay
the
liberties
of
their
very
souls
,
to
have
been
the
pious
purchase
of
his
Princely
pains
.
Some
impious
great
ones
,
we
know
,
have
brought
a
period
upon
the
greatest
Empires
,
ruined
whole
Kingdoms
,
their
people
,
and
themselves
:
have
we
not
seen
,
I
say
,
to
instance
in
one
for
all
,
the
great
Roman
Empire
it self
,
which
had
so
many
times
,
caused
its
victorious
Chariots
,
loaden
with
Palms
and
Lawrels
,
to
passe
over
the
heads
of
the
most
puissant
Monarchs
of
the
World
,
that
so
often
have
been
shaken
,
and
so
many
times
establisht
by
concussion
;
at
last
,
by
the
interposition
of
one
wicked
unlucky
Prince
,
or
two
,
to
be
most
irrecoverably
entombed
.
How
much
are
we
engaged
then
to
the
precious
memory
of
our
late
Lord
Protector
,
who
in
the
staggering
conditions
,
that
our
tottering
state
at
last
,
and
Kingdom
before
was
in
,
has
not
onely
establisht
but
augmented
the
glories
of
our
Nation
;
eternizing
himself
more
amongst
us
,
and
rendring
himself
more
honorable
to
all
the
World
,
by
those
his
great
actions
,
than
all
the
Monarchs
of
Egypt
could
do
,
in
all
their
rich
Marbles
,
Pyramids
and
Obelisks
.
What
memory
now
,
I
would
fain
know
,
has
that
great
Egyptian
King
Cleopes
left
behind
him
?
who
prostituted
his
own
daughter
,
to
raise
himself
a
Pyramid
for
buryal
,
and
it
was
so
enormously
great
,
as
we
read
,
that
the
earth
seemed
too
weak
to
bear
it
,
and
Heaven
not
high
enough
,
to
free
it self
from
its
importunities
:
yet
that
,
doating
with
age
,
has
now
forgot
its
founder
,
and
he
retains
the
stink
of
a
rotten
reputation
,
and
is
proclaimed
by
all
the
World
,
but
a
sottish
Prince
for
his
pains
.
Pompey
on
the
other
side
,
we
see
,
after
he
had
measured
three
parts
of
the
World
,
more
by
his
triumphs
than
travails
,
comes
to
be
killed
at
length
,
by
the
hand
of
a
half
man
,
and
the
earth
which
seemed
too
scanty
and
narrow
for
his
conquests
,
was
seen
to
fail
him
for
a
Tomb
:
and
what
memory
have
all
his
great
actions
acquired
to
him
,
but
of
a
proud
,
bloody
,
imperious
Common-wealths-man
,
that
could
endure
no
corrival
in
greatnesse
.
We
have
seen
again
in
story
,
a
great
Manlius
,
precipitated
,
from
the
Capitol
,
which
once
he
had
so
bravely
defended
,
that
the
Theater
of
all
his
glories
,
might
be
turned
into
the
scaffold
of
his
dismal
punishment
:
like
that
insolent
Pharaoh
,
whom
we
have
so
often
spoken
of
,
which
thought
by
the
help
of
his
false
gods
,
to
command
the
waves
of
the
Sea
,
and
to
walk
upon
stars
:
yet
perisht
in
those
his
very
attempts
,
and
was
buried
in
execration
and
horrors
.
What
which
memory
have
any
of
these
,
or
other
wicked
Princes
left
behind
them
,
better
than
Erostratus
before
spoken
of
?
No
,
nothing
can
erect
a
true
monument
of
eternal
memory
,
but
pure
Mosaick
piety
.
Our
glorious
second
Moses
full
well
saw
,
that
Royal
Crowns
themselvs
,
did
loose
their
lustre
on
heads
without
brains
,
and
brows
without
Majesty
;
and
did
much
less
regard
a
King
without
piety
,
than
a
blind
Cyclop
,
in
an
hollow
cave
.
Princes
he
knew
there
have
been
,
and
are
still
in
the
World
,
born
like
Diadumenus
,
with
a
Diadem
of
honour
in
their
foreheads
,
but
most
of
them
,
we
see
,
appear
like
Josias
,
with
a
leprosie
there
too
.
O
what
a
memory
then
must
his
late
Highnesse
have
left
behind
him
?
who
is
well
known
,
to
have
been
of
the
Lords
own
election
,
&
so
much
according
to
his
own
heart
,
that
his
servant
Moses
and
he
,
may
stand
in
line
Parallel
;
for
just
by
such
means
as
he
,
we
have
seen
how
he
came
into
the
Government
,
became
the
God
of
Monarchs
,
ruined
the
state
of
his
enemies
,
opened
stormy
Seas
,
manured
Wildernesses
,
and
cleft
Rocks
,
with
as
small
a
thing
as
a
twig
:
just
as
he
,
he
has
been
laborious
amongst
Shepherds
,
sanctified
and
exemplary
in
Cities
,
temperate
in
principalities
,
a
Companion
of
Angels
in
his
retirements
,
and
as
it
were
a
Cabinet
friend
of
God
.
Nay
has
our
gracious
second
Moses
shewed
lesse
piety
in
the
service
of
the
Omnipotent
,
lesse
sweetnesse
in
government
,
lesse
greatnesse
of
spirit
in
all
noble
enterprises
,
lesse
patience
in
difficulties
,
lesse
prudence
in
the
direction
of
his
affairs
,
or
lesse
dispatch
in
his
expeditions
?
And
to
conclude
in
short
,
has
he
been
lesse
blest
in
all
his
battails
,
having
ever
had
,
as
it
were
,
good
hap
,
and
victories
,
under
his
pay
?
and
can
we
do
lesse
than
fall
down
,
and
worship
divinity
in
all
this
,
and
give
him
the
immortalitie
of
our
memories
at
least
,
in
lieu
of
those
eternal
obligations
,
that
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
has
laid
upon
us
?
Nay
have
we
not
seen
him
all
along
,
like
his
old
Master
Moses
too
,
holding
Heaven
continually
for
object
,
and
all
greatnesse
of
this
World
in
contempt
?
How
like
him
too
,
he
has
alwaies
shewed
himself
full
of
the
spirit
of
all
Prudence
,
Piety
,
and
Prophesie
it self
;
and
over
and
above
all
that
,
crowned
with
a
most
soveraign
high
humility
?
How
he
like
him
too
,
but
most
especially
toward
his
later
end
,
had
blotted
one
almost
all
,
that
was
man
within
him
,
by
a
conversation
wholly
celestial
,
reducing
his
flesh
into
so
much
subjection
,
&
exalting
his
spirit
to
such
an
empire
over
it
,
that
he
might
deserve
the
name
of
God
too
,
as
his
old
Master
Moses
did
,
in
resemblance
of
whom
,
he
was
so
transformed
,
by
the
superabudance
of
his
most
excellent
,
and
celestial
qualities
?
And
has
he
not
deserved
an
immortality
upon
earth
,
for
all
this
,
as
well
as
Crowns
in
Heaven
?
Yes
sure
,
for
the
most
malicious
enemy
that
his
Highnesse
has
in
the
World
,
cannot
deny
him
to
have
dyed
,
under
the
shadow
of
so
many
Palms
,
of
his
own
most
noble
and
heroical
vertues
,
that
they
must
spring
still
to
all
eternity
,
and
grow
green
with
very
age
:
his
Lawrels
can
never
wither
,
nor
his
Bays
be
blasted
;
the
resplendent
raies
of
his
honour
,
can
never
loose
their
luster
,
nor
the
odours
of
his
holy
conversation
,
ever
fail
of
sending
forth
their
precious
perfumes
.
Thus
has
his
most
Serene
Highnesse
,
our
second
Moses
,
like
the
former
,
perfectly
changed
his
Sepulcher
into
a
Cradle
,
and
even
drawn
life
out
of
his
Tomb.
O
what
an
immortallty
is
this
,
to
survive
eternally
in
the
mouths
of
men
!
But
how
much
more
happy
an
eternity
is
it
,
to
have
a
perpetual
life
in
Heaven
,
enjoying
the
very
knowledge
,
love
,
life
and
felicity
of
God
himself
?
Come
hither
then
all
you
Princes
,
and
mighty
Persons
of
the
earth
,
and
make
hast
,
to
take
out
your
copy
and
pattern
here
,
betaking
your selves
betimes
to
the
glorious
Temple
of
Honour
,
by
that
difficult
one
,
of
holy
virtues
,
which
will
prove
themselves
to
you
in
the
end
,
as
they
have
done
to
our
first
and
second
Moses
here
,
like
Elias
his
heavenly
Chariot
,
all
flaming
with
glory
,
to
render
you
,
not
onely
most
illustrious
and
eternal
here
upon
earth
,
but
to
transport
your
brave
,
Princely
,
&
most
purified
souls
,
above
the
height
of
the
Empirean
Heaven
.
Come
hither
,
I
pray
you
likewise
,
all
you
malecontented
spirits
of
this
Nation
,
that
have
so
long
maliciously
repind
,
and
impiously
opposed
your selves
,
against
his
late
most
Serene
Highnesse
his
Mosaical
Person
,
and
Government
,
and
still
do
continue
to
malign
his
most
precious
memory
,
together
with
the
power
of
his
most
gracious
Son
and
Successor
,
set
over
us
now
,
by
God
himself
,
and
his
own
divine
vertues
:
repair
hither
,
I
say
,
with
all
the
ingenuity
of
judgement
,
and
Christian
candor
that
you
can
,
and
I
doubt
not
but
by
such
an
impartial
perusal
of
our
happy
Parallels
,
you
will
find
all
your
aversions
and
distasts
alleviated
,
and
that
the
loathings
and
nauseousness
which
you
had
before
,
did
spring
from
the
disease
of
your
own
palats
onely
,
or
Malos
gustos
,
as
the
Spaniard
calls
them
,
and
from
no
other
cause
at
all
.
If
that
remedy
will
not
serve
your
turns
,
to
divert
the
violent
stream
,
of
your
old
animosities
,
I
would
earnestly
desire
you
again
(
if
you
are
not
yet
stark
mad
with
judaising
)
to
reflect
with
horrour
,
upon
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abiram
,
and
all
his
complices
,
with
the
rest
of
that
mutinous
Nation
,
the
murmuring
Israelites
,
&
by
a
serious
soliloquy
with
your
own
souls
,
you
may
correct
that
cursed
spirit
of
contumacy
,
which
has
so
long
possest
you
,
Cicero
.
Quorum
facta
immitamini
eorum
,
exitus
per
horrescendo
,
by
a
due
consideration
of
the
direful
effects
of
their
devilish
doings
,
whose
steps
you
stil
pursue
.
And
if
all
this
prove
but
counsel
cast
away
,
let
me
humbly
beseech
you
once
more
,
through
the
blessed
bowels
of
our
gracious
Lord
and
Saviour
,
to
make
your
earnest
and
often
addresses
to
him
,
and
holding
some
such
divine
discourses
with
him
,
as
I
shall
here
set
down
in
a
form
,
that
I
have
sometimes
used
myself
upon
like
occasion
,
and
I
cannot
doubt
,
but
by
his
all-healing
grace
,
you
shal
all
be
reduced
to
a
better
temper
,
and
most
ample
complacency
with
the
present
government
.
O
most
gracious
Lord
God
,
which
guidest
the
lives
,
estates
and
conditions
of
all
men
living
in
this
World
,
and
makest
a
perfect
musick
in
the
universe
,
which
thou
composest
of
many
accords
;
or
let
us
take
this
great
All
,
and
government
of
thine
,
as
a
Table
of
many
colours
,
or
a
body
of
many
members
:
why
should
I
,
be
it
one
,
or
be
it
'tother
,
make
my self
a
false
harmony
in
so
sweet
a
Consort
;
an
extravagant
colour
,
in
so
compleat
a
Table
,
or
a
prodigious
member
,
of
so
beautiful
a
body
.
It
shall
suffice
me
,
O
Lord
,
to
be
a
part
in
this
Musick
,
this
Table
,
or
of
this
Body
:
set
me
high
,
set
me
low
,
let
me
be
white
,
let
me
be
black
,
make
me
head
,
make
me
foot
.
My
God
,
it
is
in
thee
to
give
me
my
part
,
and
in
me
onely
to
play
it
well
;
why
should
I
kick
against
the
spur
,
like
a
paltry
Jade
?
Why
being
but
a
miserable
earthen
pot
,
should
I
argue
against
my
Potter
,
for
the
fashion
,
that
he
has
pleased
to
put
me
in
?
If
the
men
whom
I
envy
,
or
bear
malice
to
,
merit
their
good
fortunes
,
and
happy
advancements
,
I
wrong
thy
divine
justice
,
O
Lord
,
to
maligne
,
or
oppose
them
;
And
if
they
deserve
them
not
,
they
more
merit
my
compassion
,
than
envy
;
since
all
their
greatness
,
will
serve
them
but
for
a
burthen
in
this
life
,
and
a
far
deeper
condemnation
in
the
other
.
If
the
stars
,
by
contribution
of
their
raies
,
do
strengthen
the
activity
of
hell
fire
,
as
we
are
informed
they
do
,
how
much
more
then
,
will
those
great
lights
of
honour
,
and
sparkling
advantages
of
greatness
,
increase
the
torments
of
a
reprobate
Prince
,
or
great
person
?
Besides
,
O
Lord
,
why
should
I
be
guilty
of
so
strange
a
malignity
against
my self
,
as
forgeting
the
preservation
of
my
own
person
,
to
which
I
am
by
nature
obliged
,
go
about
to
ruine
any
other
man
,
a
thing
,
that
nature
it self
abhors
from
?
&
if
by
loving
my
very
enemy
,
all
will
make
for
me
,
as
thou
,
O
Lord
,
thy self
hast
told
me
:
Why
should
I
,
through
want
of
love
,
deprive
my self
of
so
great
advantage
to
my self
,
or
so
great
a
power
over
him
?
and
this
way
of
revenging
by
love
,
being
of
all
things
most
easie
:
Why
should
I
go
obout
to
create
a
hell
within
my self
,
where
thou
,
O
my
God
,
hast
a
gracious
purpose
,
to
erect
a
Paradise
?
So
,
Good
Lord
,
of
thy
mercie
,
send
us
all
a
happie
peace
,
and
true
Christian
complacencie
,
one
with
another
,
and
to
thine
own
name
give
the
glory
,
for
so
it
properlie
belongs
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
The
Heads
of
the
Ascents
,
wherein
his
late
HIGHNESSE
,
our
renowned
PROTECTOUR
,
deceased
,
stands
Parallel
with
the
great
Patriarch
MOSES
.
-
THe
first
Ascent
made
Parallel
,
In
their
Nobility
of
Birth
,
and
great
extraction
.
p.
1.
-
The
second
,
In
their
remarkable
Beauty
of
body
,
and
gacefulnesse
of
of
Person
.
p.
6.
-
The
third
,
In
the
great
particular
providences
of
Heaven
over
them
,
in
their
miracluous
preservations
,
from
their
very
infancies
.
p.
16.
-
The
fourth
,
In
all
the
eminent
advantages
of
their
most
Liberal
and
Noble
education
.
p.
21.
-
The
fifth
.
In
their
long
Privacy
,
and
happy
retirements
of
themselves
.
p.
29.
-
The
sixth
,
In
their
miraculous
and
divine
calls
to
publick
employment
.
p.
36.
-
The
seventh
,
In
their
great
modesty
,
and
unwillingnesse
to
accept
of
their
great
charges
.
p.
43.
-
The
eighth
,
In
their
many
most
stupendious
deliverances
of
their
people
.
p.
53.
-
The
ninth
,
In
the
many
mispirisions
,
and
ungrateful
murmurings
of
the
common
people
.
p.
64.
-
The
tenth
,
In
the
malicious
oppositions
,
frequent
seditions
,
and
dangerous
rebellions
of
some
of
the
Elders
themselves
,
and
Princes
of
the
Assembly
.
p.
73.
-
The
eleventh
,
In
their
great
courage
,
and
all
high
personal
accomplishments
requisite
to
good
Souldiers
.
p.
83.
-
The
twelfth
,
In
their
proportion
of
years
,
and
ability
of
mind
and
body
,
when
they
came
first
into
office
,
and
publick
command
.
p.
91.
-
The
thirteenth
,
In
their
great
skill
in
military
conduct
,
and
all
accomplishments
requisite
to
Captains
General
.
p
,
97.
-
The
fourteenth
.
In
their
constant
felicity
,
and
most
victorious
successes
.
p.
106.
-
The
fifteenth
,
In
all
the
parts
and
abilities
requisite
to
the
accomplishment
of
great
States-men
.
p.
115.
-
The
sixteenth
,
In
their
great
care
,
and
prudent
caution
,
in
the
election
of
honest
and
able
Officers
,
and
Ministers
under
them
.
p.
125.
-
The
seventeenth
,
In
their
extraordinary
clemency
,
and
sweet
temper
of
their
government
.
p.
138.
-
The
eighteenth
,
In
their
great
pitty
and
piety
towards
the
very
purses
,
as
well
as
persons
of
their
people
.
p.
149.
-
The
nineteenth
,
In
their
great
piety
towards
God
,
and
exemplary
zeal
for
his
glory
and
worship
.
p.
159
-
The
twentieth
,
In
their
most
extraordinary
gift
and
spirit
of
prayer
.
p.
168
-
The
one
and
twentieth
,
In
their
most
exemplary
practical
parts
of
true
piety
,
and
renunciation
of
proper
interests
,
for
the
service
and
glory
of
their
God
.
p.
182.
-
The
two
and
twentieth
,
In
the
divine
dignity
,
and
gift
of
the
spirit
of
Prophesie
.
p.
201.
-
The
three
and
twentieth
,
In
their
endeavours
to
procure
that
holy
spirit
of
Prophesie
for
others
,
and
indulging
that
divine
liberty
of
prophesying
.
p.
216.
-
The
four
and
twentieth
,
In
their
high
humility
,
and
matchlesse
meeknesse
of
spirit
.
p.
233
The
Heads
of
the
six
Transcendental
Ascents
,
and
Parallels
.
-
THe
first
Transcendental
Ascent
made
Parallel
,
In
the
happy
power
of
nomination
of
their
Successors
.
p.
251
-
The
second
,
In
the
nomination
of
Persons
of
their
neerest
relations
,
to
be
their
Successors
.
p.
261.
-
The
third
,
In
the
imparting
of
some
of
their
spirit
and
honour
to
their
Successors
,
in
their
life
time
,
and
the
assurance
they
had
of
their
vertues
,
and
prosperous
successes
.
p.
267.
-
The
fourth
,
In
the
fair
prospect
of
the
fruits
,
and
fruition
of
the
effects
,
of
all
their
labours
.
p.
279.
-
The
fifth
,
In
their
happy
departure
out
of
this
life
,
and
glorious
funerals
.
p.
283.
-
The
sixth
,
In
the
magnificent
memorials
,
and
eternal
monuments
that
they
have
erected
in
the
hearts
of
all
good
men
.
p.
295
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