"You have, by assuming a title likest that of Father of your Country, allowed yourself to be, one cannot say elevated, but rather brought down so many stages from your real sublimity, and as it were forced into rank for the public convenience." But there must be no question of a higher title:-- "You have, in your far higher majesty, scorned the title of King.
And surely with justice: for if in your present greatness you were to be taken with that name which you were able when a private man to reduce and bring to nothing, it would be almost as if, when by the help of the true God you had subdued some idolatrous nation, you were to worship the gods you had yourself overcome." This warning, occurring in the midst of a magnificent panegyric, sufficiently vindicates Milton against the charge of servile flattery.
The frank advice which he gives Cromwell on questions of policy is less conclusive evidence: for, except on the point of disestablishment, it was such as Cromwell had already given himself.

Professor Masson's excellent summary of it may be further condensed thus--1.

Reliance on a council of well-selected associates.2.Absolute voluntaryism in religion.3.Legislation not to be meddlesome or over-puritanical.

4.
University and scholastic endowments to be made the rewards of approved merit.5.Entire liberty of publication at the risk of the publisher.

6.
Constant inclination towards the generous view of things.