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The four and twentieth Ascent. (Book 24)
MOses being thus blest with all the beau∣tiful embellishments of Body and Soul, that mortal man was capable of, so ad∣mirable 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 dig∣nities: being thus proved to be an absolute good Souldier, compleat Captain, and Con∣ductor-General, a most Master-Statesman, perfect Prince, and supreme Magistrate; and yet further, advanced to the most sublime de∣grees 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 propor∣tion, 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