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A88575	Mr. Love's case: wherein is published, first, his several petitions to the Parliament. Secondly, a full narrative of the late dangerous design against the state, written with Mr. Loves own hand, and by him sent to the Parliament; wherein he setteth down his several meetings and secret actings with Major Alford, Maj. Adams, Col. Barton, Mr. Blackmore, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Drake, Cap. Farr, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Haviland, Major Huntington, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Jaquel, Mr Jackson, Lieut. Col. Jackson, Cap. Massey, Mr. Nalton, Cap. Potter, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Sterks, Colonel Sowton, Colonel Vaughan, and others. Thirdly, Mr. Loves speech and prayer on the scaffold on Towerhil, August 22. 1651. Printed by an exact copy, taken in short-hand by John Hinde. Fourthly, animadversions on the said speech and prayer.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Hinde, John, 17th cent.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3143; Thomason E641_10; Thomason E790_1; ESTC R202750	68,137	69

company of Angels to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant to the spirits of all men made perfect to God the judg of all in whose presence there is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore I shall conclude But then Mr Sheriff Tichburn telling him that the words were the spirits of just men made perfect Love He then corrected himself saying To the spirits of just men made perfect and to God the Judg of all in whose presence there is fulness of joy and in whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore SECT XXVIII I conclude with that speech of the Apostle I am now in 2 Tim. 4. 6 7. I am now to be offered up and the time of my departure is at hand but I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is a crown of righteousness layd up for me and not for me onely but for all them that love the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ through whose blood when I have shed my blood I expect Salvation and remission of sins And so the Lord bless you all Then turning to Mr Sheriff he said May I pray Sheriff Tichburn Yes but consider the time Love I have done Sir Then turning to the people he said Beloved I will but pray a little while with you to commend my Soul to God and I have done Then Mr Ash told him Mr Ash The House is risen and therefore Love To which Mr Love answered I I Sir After which he prayed with an audible voyce saying SECT XXIX Mr Love's Prayer MOst Glorious and Eternal Majesty Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men though thou hast suffered men to condemn thy servant thy servant will not condemn thee He justifieth thee though thou cuttest him off in the midst of his days and in the midst of his Ministry blessing thy glorious Name that though his name be taken away from the Land of the Living that yet he is not blotted out of the Book of the Living Father my hour is come thy poor creature can say without vanity and falshood he hath desired to glorifie thee upon Earth glorifie thou now him in Heaven He hath desired to bring the Souls of other men to Heaven let his Soul be brought to Heaven O thou blessed God whom thy Creature hath served who hath made thee his hope and his confidence from his youth forsake him not now he is drawing nigh to thee now he is in the valley of the shadow of death Lord be thou life to him smile thou upon him while men frown on him Lord thou hast setled this perswasion in his heart That as soon as ever the blow is given to divide his Head from his Body he shall be united to his Head in Heaven Blessed be God that thy servant dyes in those hopes Blessed be God that thou hast filled the soul of thy servant with joy and peace in beleeving O Lord think upon that poor Brother of mine that is a companion in tribulation with me who is this day to lose his life as well as I O fill him full of the joy of the Holy Ghost when he is to give up the ghost Lord strengthen our hearts that we may give up the ghost with joy and not with grief We intreat thee O Lord think upon thy poor Churches O that England might live in thy sight and O that London might be a faithful City to thee that righteousness might be amongst them that so peace and plenty may be within their walls and righteousness within their habitation Lord heal the breaches of this poor Nation Make England and Scotland as one staff in the Lords hand that Ephraim might not envy Judah nor Judah vex Ephraim but that both might flee upon the shoulders of the Philistins that men of the Protestant Religion engaged in the same Cause and Covenant might not delight to spill each others blood but might engage against the common Adversaries of our Religion and Liberties God shew mercy to all that fear him SECT XXX Think upon our Covenant-keeping Brethren in the Kingdom of Scotland keep them faithful to thee and let not them that have invaded them overspread their whole Land Prevent the shedding of more Christian Blood if it seem good in thine eyes God shew mercy to thy poor Servant who is here now giving up the ghost O blessed Jesus apply thy Blood not only for my Justification unto life but also for my comfort for the quieting of my Soul that so I might be in the joys of Heaven before I come to a possession of Heaven Hear the prayers of all thy people that have been made for thy Servant and though thou hast denyed prayer as to the particular request concerning my life yet let herein the fruit of prayer be seen that thou wilt bear up my heart against the fear of death God shew mercy to all that fear him Shew mercy to all that have engaged for the life of thy Servant let them have mercy at the day of their appearing before Jesus Christ. Preserve thou a godly Ministry in this Nation and restore a godly Ministry and cause yet good days to be the heritage of thy people for the Lords sake Now Lord into thy hands thy Servant committeth his spirit And though he may not with Steven see the Heavens opened let him have the Heavens opened and though he may not see upon a Scaffold the Son of God standing at the right hand of God yet let him come to the glorified Body of Jesus Christ and this hour have an intellectual sight of the glorified Body of his Saviour Lord Jesus receive my spirit and Lord Iesus stand by me thy dying Servant who hath endeavored in his life time to stand for thee Lord hear pardon all his infirmities wipe away his iniquities by the blood of Christ wipe off reproaches from his name wipe off guilt from his person and receive him pure and spotless and blameless before thee in love And all this we beg for the sake of Iesus Christ Amen and Amen SECT XXXI Mr Ash You make a Christian end I hope Mr Love I I bless God Then turning to Mr Sheriff Tichburn said I thank you for this kindness Sir you have expressed a great deal of kindness to me Well I go from a Block to the bosom of my Saviour Then he asked Where is the Executioner When the Executioner came forward he said Art thou the Officer Executioner Yes Love Then lifting up his eyes he said O blessed Iesus that hath kept me from the hurt of death and from the fear of death O blessed be God blessed be God And taking his leave of the Ministers he said Love The Lord be with you all And taking leave of Sheriff Tichburn he kissed his hand Then he kneeled down and made a short prayer privately Then after rising up he said Blessed be God I am full of joy and peace in

Mr. LOVE's CASE Wherein is Published First His several Petitions to the Parliament Secondly A full Narrative of the late Dangerous Design against the State written with Mr. Loves own hand and by him sent to the Parliament wherein he setteth down his several Meetings and Secret Actings with Major Alford Maj. Adams Col. Barton Mr. Blackmore Mr. Case Mr. Cauton Dr. Drake Mr. Drake Cap. Farr Mr. Gibbons Mr. Haviland Major Huntington Mr. Jenkins Mr. Jaquel Mr Jackson Lieut. Col. Jackson Cap. Massey Mr. Nalton Cap. Potter Mr. Robinson Mr. Sterks Colonel Sowton Colonel Vaughan and others Thirdly Mr. Loves Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Towerhil August 22. 1651. Printed by an Exact Copy taken in Short-hand by JOHN HINDE Fourthly Animadversions on the said Speech and Prayer Whose hatred is covered by deceit his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole Congregation Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein And he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him Prov. 26. 26 27. London Printed for R. W. and Peter Cole at the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England The Humble Petition of Christopher Love a condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner having received the Sentence of Death by the High Court of Justice and is preparing himself in all humility and serious submission to drink that bitter Cup the terror whereof though much abated through the pardoning Mercies of God in the blood of sprinkling yet your Petitioner being brought down to the dust of death desires to see the righteous Lord in this Sentence acknowledging it to be just with the Most High to cut him off both in the middest of his days and in the midst of his Ministry He desires to be deeply humbled under the mighty hand of God lying now before the Lord and you putting his mouth in the dust that there may be hope that the Lord will pardon his manifold iniquities and that your Honors will pass by his Offences done contrary to your Laws which as he formerly did so still doth confess renders him culpable for which he is unfeignedly sorry Your Petitioner goeth not about to plead Excuse but with an humble Submission prostrates himself at your feet acknowledging he hath offended against the Acts of this Common-wealth and thereby is fallen under your sore displeasure of which he is very deeply sensible and sorrowful also Your Petitioner therefore having no other refuge left him on earth to redeem his Life from death but the Favor of this Honorable House makes his humble Addresses to you in the day of his deep Distress that you would as the Elect of God put on bowels of Compassion towards him that his life may be given him for a prey that he may give his life for a Sacrifice for the glory of God and good of this Nation and if the Lord shall please to stir up your hearts to remit the Execution and absolve him from the Sentence of Death it will be to him as life from the dead and he shall thankfully acknowledge God as the Author and you as the Instruments and humbly hopes it will be no matter of grief to you in the Great Day of your Accompt to rescue his life from going down to the Pit and he is perswaded that hereby the hearts of many that are godly will be comforted and united and many Thanksgivings from them will redound to God in your behalf and will lay Obligations on your Petitioner the remainder of his days to lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty and a Promise in his place and calling to endeavor the Peace and Welfare of this Commonwealth And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. Christopher Love Read July 9. 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The Humble Petition of Christopher Love a Condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner doth with all Thankfulness acknowledge it a singular Providence of God and special Favor of the Parliament that a door of Hope is yet open and opportunity once more offered to prostrate himself at your feet for a Grant of his Life which if you vouchsafe he shall accept as an Act of great Grace and Mercy It is no little grief of heart to your Petitioner that through unadvisedness and weakness he is fallen under your sad and heavy Displeasure and hath offended against the Laws of this Commonwealth and now by the Sentence of the High Court of Justice to which he submits with all Christian meekness and humble acknowledgement of Gods hand therein is in inevitable and sudden danger to lose his Life without your merciful and gracious Interposition And whereas there is a Surmise of a Plot continued against the Peace and Welfare of this Commonwealth he doth protest in the presence of God the Searcher of all hearts that he knoweth no Plot or Design against the present Government nor is he privy in the least to any preparations for or intendments towards any intestine Insurrections or forreign Invasions or to any Correspondencies now held with any in or of the Scotish Nation or any other whatsoever He is not ignorant how much Malignants will triumph at his death nor is he without natural affections to his dear Wife and Children nor without real desires of life to do God and his Countrey service which are powerful Perswasions to him to do whatever he can without wounding his Conscience Your dying Petitioner humbly prays That as the Elect of God you would put on bowels of Compassion and in imitation of your Heavenly Father whose Mercy rejoyceth against Judgement be pleased to absolve him from the Sentence of Death which will be to him as life from the dead and this new Life received from your hands will lay strong Obligations on your Petitioner to endeavor in his place and calling the composing of Differences among the Godly and preserving spiritual Peace and Love throughout the Churches of the Saints as well as the civil Peace and Welfare of the Commonwealth And he further promises neither to Plot Contrive or Design any thing to the hurt of this present Government and if it shall be required to put in further Security for performance hereof and if none of these things should move you to vouchsafe an Absolute Pardon yet let him implore thus much from your hands as his last though very uncomfortable Request That you would be pleased to change the Sentence of death into Banishment into some strange Land where he may sit alone lamenting his sad and deplorable Condition And your Petitioner shall pray c. Christopher Love Read July 11. 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Christopher Love condemned to die and the hour of Execution drawing near Most humbly sheweth THat whereas there are but very few

general Apostacy Covenant breaking hath brought London low and I fear will bring it lower I tremble to think what evils are coming upon it This City it is the Receptacle of all Errors That as your Commodities have been vented and spread from hence into every corner of the Land so hath Heresies and Blasphemies had their first rise from this great and populous City and spread into all the Country SECT XVIII To the Inhabitants of this City I commend but these few Particulars First Let me beg you to love your painful and your godly Ministers if they be taken away you are like to have worse come in their rooms I know the Presbyterian Ministers are the great eye-sore who have formerly been counted the Chariots and the Horsmen of Israel But I will say to London as was said to Leyden That after Junius was taken away an Orthodox Minister Arminius that pestilent Heretick came in his room if your godly Ministers as there are ten already at one blow taken from you if they be taken away Arminians Anabaptists nay Jesuits are like to supply their rooms if God in mercy prevent not Secondly Submit your selves to Church-Government that would lay a curb and restraint upon your lusts it is a golden and an easie yoke to which if you do not submit God may lay an heavier an iron yoke upon your necks SECT XIX Thirdly Take heed of those Doctrines that come under the Notion of New Lights I have judged that those Doctrines you ought to suspect whether they be true when the brocher of them saith it is New for Truth it is as old as the Bible A remarkable passage I would suggest unto you in Deut. 32. it is said there They chose them new gods that were newly sprung up what were these new gods the next words tell you they were old devils they sacrificed to devils not to God Now their Sacrificing to the old Devil it was called a Sacrificing to deceive the People to new gods that were newly come up new gods they were but the old devils So I say of many of those things that go under the notion of New Lights it is but old darkness old Heresies raked out of the Dunghil which were buried in former ages in the Church with contempt and reproach many hundred years ago Again SECT XX. Fourthly Bewail your great loss that you have in the taking away of so many Ministers out of your City there are ten Ministers if I mistake not that are taken away and removed in one blow those who were burning and shining Lights in their several Candlesticks and bright Stars in their several Orbs though I am not worthy of the world therefore I am taken out of it yet as for my suffering Brethren who are now in Bonds and Banishment the world is not worthy of them Again in the next place take heed how you be forward in ingaging in a War with your godly Brethren in the Scotish Nation for my part I have opposed the Tyranny of a King but I never opposed the Title take heed what you do SECT XXI I have something in the next place to speak to the godly Ministery of this City were it not that I were a dying man I would not speak to such reverend and grave men I would as Elihu being but a yong man I would say Multitudes of years should teach wisdom and I would hold my tongue but the words of a dying man take whether they be discreet or no or so well ordered and managed or no for them I would first desire God to shew them mercy they that have begged for mercy for me at the day of my death I will beg but this of them That as they have not been ashamed of my Chain so they would now wax confident by my Bonds and by my Blood I know they are maligned and threatned yet my Prayer is for them that in Acts 4. 29. Now Lord behold their threatnings and grant that thy Servants may Preach thy word with all boldness Though I am but yong yet I will offer my yong experience to my grave Fathers and Brethren and that is this Now I am to dye I have abundant peace in my own Conscience that I have set my self against the Sins and Apostacies of this present Age It is true my faithfulness hath procured me ill will from men but it hath purchased me peace with God I have lived in peace and I shall dye in peace That which I have to beseech of the Ministers is this To beg them to keep up Church-Government Whatsoever God doth with the Governments of the world turning Kingdoms upside down yet the Government of the Church will stand And of all Governments I dye with this perswasion That the Presbyterial Government makes most for Purity and Vnity throughout the Churches of the Saints I would beg them therefore to keep up Church-Government That they would not let their Elderships fall That they would take heed of too general Admissions to the Lords-Supper That they be not too prodigal of the Blood of Christ by too general Admissions of men to partake of the Supper that Sealing Ordinance And now I am speaking to them I shall speak a word of them and so I have done SECT XXII I have heard many clamors since I came to Prison as if that Plot which it is called that I am condemned for as if all the City Ministers they were engaged in this Design which as a dying man I tell you That all the Ministers that were present at the meeting and had a hand in that business for which I am to be put to death all those Ministers they are either in Prison or they are discovered already and therefore I do here upon my death free the Ministers of the City That those who are not yet in trouble nor discovered to the Committee of Examinations none of them had a hand in that business in which I was ingaged in which my conscience doth tell me I have not sinned SECT XXIII I have now I have done immediatly for I would fain be at my Fathers house but a word to speak to my own Congregation and I do return praises unto God and thanksgiving unto him for the love I have had from them I found them a solid and a judicious people and many of them Religious The Ministery of that learned man Mr. Anthony Burges did much good amongst them though I have cause to be humbled my weak Ministery did but little they afforded me a great deal of love and a liberal maintenance And this is all I desire of them That they would chuse a godly learned and an Orthodox Minister to succeed it would be a great comfort to me before I go to Heaven if I had this perswasion that a learned Orthodox godly man should fill that Pulpit And for encouragement to any godly Minister whose lot it shall be to succeed me I will say this to him That he will have as

comfortable a livelihood and as loving a people as any people in London a few only excepted I had as much satisfaction amongst them as ever I had in any condition in all my life and should never have parted from them had not now death parted us to which I do submit with all Christian meekness and cheerfulness SECT XXIV I am now drawing to an end of my ●peech and to an end of my life together But before I do expire my last breath I shall desire to justifie God and to condemn my self Here I come to that which you call an untimely end and a shameful death but blessed be God it is my glory and it is my comfort I shall justifie God he is righteous because I have sinned he is righteous though he doth cut me off in the midst of my days and in the midst of my Ministry I cannot complain that Complaint in the Psalmist in the 44 Psalm Thou sellest thy people for nought and dost not increase thy wealth by their price My blood it shall not be spilt for nought I may do more good by my death then by my life and glorifie God more in dying upon a Scaffold then if I had dyed of a Disease upon my bed I bless my God I have not the least trouble upon my spirit but I dye with as much quietness of mind lie down I hope I shall upon the Block as if I were going to lie down upon my Bed to take my rest I see men hunger after my flesh and thirst after my blood which will hasten my happiness and their ruine and greaten their guilt For though I am a man of an obscure Family of mean Parentage so that my blood is not as the blood of Nobles yet I will say mine is a Christians blood a Ministers blood yea it is innocent blood also My blood my body my dead body it will be a morsel which I believe will hardly be digested and my blood it will be bad food for this Infant Commonwealth as Mr Prideaux called it for this Infant Commonwealth to suck on Mine is not Malignant blood though here I am brought as a grievous and a notorious Offender SECT XXV Now Beloved I shall not only justifie God as I do without a Complement for he is very Just that my Prison was not my Hell that this Scaffold is not the bottomless pit I have deserved both I have deserved it I do not only justifie God but I desire this day to magnifie God to magnifie the riches of his glorious grace that such a one as I born in an obscure Country in Wales of obscure Parents that God should look upon me and single me out from among all my kinred single me out to be an Object of his everlasting Love that when for the first fourteen years of my life I never heard a Sermon and yet in the fifteenth year of my life God through his grace did convert me And I here speak it without vanity what should a dying man be proud of for these twenty years though I am accused of many scandalous evils I speak it to the praise and glory of my God for these twenty years God hath kept me I have not fallen into a scandalous sin I have laboured to keep a good Conscience from my youth up I magnifie his grace that he hath not only made me a Christian but made me a Minister judged me faithful and put me into the Ministry and though the Office be troden upon and be disgraced yet it is my glory that I dye a despised Minister I had rather be a Preacher in a Pulpit then a Prince upon a Throne I had rather be an Instrument to bring Souls to Heaven then to have all the Nations to bring in tribute to me I am not only a Christian and a Preacher but what ever men judg me I am a Martyr too I speak it without vanity Would I have renounced my Covenant and debauched my Conscience and ventured my Soul there might have been more hopes of saving my life that I should not have come to this place but blessed be my God I have made the best choyce I have chose affliction rather then Sin and therefore welcome Scaffold and welcome Ax and welcome Death welcome Block welcome all because it will send me to my Fathers House SECT XXVI I have great cause to magnifie Gods Grace that he hath stood by me during my imprisonment It hath been a time of no little temptation to me and yet blessed be his grace he hath strengthened and stood by me I magnifie his grace that though now I come to dye a violent death yet that death is not a terror to me through the blood of sprinkling the fear of Death is taken out of my heart God is not a terror to me therefore Death is not dreadful to me I bless my God I speak it without vanity I have formerly had more fear in the drawing of a tooth then now I have in the cutting off my Head I was for some years five or six under a spirit of bondage and did fear Death exceedingly but then when the fear of Death was upon me Death was not neer me but now Death is neer me blessed be my Saviour he hath the sting of Death in his own sides and so makes the grave a bed of rest to me and makes Death the last Enemy to be a friend though he be a grim friend I bless God further that though I am to be cast out of the world I bless my God though men judg me to be cast out of the world yet that God hath not cast me out of the hearts and prayers of his people I had rather be cast out of the world then be cast out of the heart of any godly man Some think me it is true not worthy to live and yet others judg I do not deserve to dye but God will judg all men I will judg none SECT XXVII I have now done I have no more to say but to desire the help of all your prayers that God would give me the continuance and supply of divine grace to carry me through this great work that I am now to do That I who am to do a work I never did I may have a strength that I never had That I may put off this Body with as much quietness and comfort of minde as ever I put off my clothes to go to bed And now I am to commend my Soul to God and to receive my fatal blow I am comforted in this though men kill me they cannot damn me and though they thrust me out of the world yet they cannot shut me out of Heaven I am now going to my long home and you are going to your short homes but I will tell you I shall be at home before you I shall be at Heaven my Fathers house before you will be at your own Houses Now I am going to the Heavenly Jerusalem to the innumerable

not as he thought be proved against him I judge it not improbable but that the Ministers of his exemption may be free from all interposure of particularities of advice for the driving on M. Loves designe this word he owns in one of his Petitions though the word Plot grates upon his spirit yea possibly they may be free in respect of the knowledge of the particularities of the method and transactions by which the Designe was carryed on and ripened from time to time by the Arch-Contrivers such works of darkness are in danger of coming abroad into the light before their time and so to mischieve or destroy the workmen in case the number of those who either shall meet frequently for the managing and forming of them or to whom the particulars of them shall be imparted be too great It is seldom seen but that that which is known to many soon after comes to be known unto all Yet I beleeve there is hardly any Minister of the Presbyterian perswasion about the City but knew well enough that there was Scotch-Ale in brewing and that Master Love and his Complices were not asleep as to their Interest and cause Yea and that from time to time though they could not call Master Loves Designe by its proper name yet they prayed heartily in general and covert terms for the prosperity of it But Master Loves Conscience now upon the Scaffold tells him it seems a quite contrary t●le to what it told him a few days before When he was a Petitioner to the Parliament for his life his Conscience told him that he had Sinned against God that his late miscarriages were great his crimes and offences against the Parliament high c. But in the interim it seems the Rabbies of his Conscience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had been with him and shin'd a new light into him About the entertainment whereof had he followed his own Counsel directed unto others in the like case formerly mentioned and had taken heed of receiving it it had been much better and safer for him ANIMAD upon Sect. 23. What M. Love gives in honor to his Congregation I shall not take from them Onely what he gives unto himself in this kind as 1. That he should never have parted from them had not death parted them 2. That he submitteth unto death with all Christian meeknesse c. I make some question whether he had right to give it or no. For he that had parted from one Congregation upon a far different occasion from that of death he speaks of why might he not his judgment remaining the same touching a lawfulnesse of parting have parted from another and another after that upon a like occasion Men may be confident of their present intentions and purposes but to prophesie of their future is to run an adventure But whereas he professeth his submission unto death with all Christian meeknesse I leave him to be judged out of his own mouth in this very discourse wherewith he hath avenged himself on his Judges whom he calls his adversaries to the uttermost ANIMAD upon Sect. 24. In the beginning of this Section he professeth his desire to justifie God and to condemne himself A Christian and worthy profession But that which he professeth a desire to do he doth very faintly and by halfs But that which is contrary to what he desires as he saith to do he doth vigorously and with his might In his justifying of God he is very generall and faint and yet more generall and superficiall in condemning himself But in the justifying of himself and condemning others he is inlarg'd beyond his line For the justifying of God he saith only that he is righteous in the condemning of himself he saith no more but onely I have sinned which the most innocent and righteous person under heaven may say truly But for the justifying and commending of himself with a mixture of insinuations against others how copious and eloquent is he First he saith his bloud shall not be spilt for nought wherein he make's himself equall with the Saints he mentioneth from the Psalm 2. That he may do more good by his death then by his life which though it may be true enough in a sence little to his honor yet in his notion must imply either that his Oration which he was now uttering was so effectuall and full of power that many of those that heard it would either be converted or els much edified by it or els that his dying with so much courage in such a worthy cause as he was now to suffer for would make others confident in the further maintenance and prosecution of it whereby God should be much glorified 3. He sings over his former note of confidence I blesse my God I have not the least trouble c. I die with as much quietnesse of mind c. By which he doth not only commend himself as one of the first-born sons of Faith but farther insinuates the goodnesse and justifiablenesse of his cause whereby the people may be the more incens'd against his Judges 4. He saith that he sees that men hunger after his flesh and thirst after his blood which hastens his happinesse and their ruine c. wherein at once he justifieth himself in the highest and condemneth others proportionably 5. He saith his blood is innocent blood is this to condemne himself and not plainly to condemne others by his self-justification 6. He saith that his dead body will be a morsell which he believes will hardly be digested and that his blood will be bad food c. What are these but Rhetoricall flourishes of his own righteousnesse and innocency full of reflexion upon his Judges as men that had sinned with an high hand against the peace and safety of the Common-wealth by sentencing him to die 7. And lastly that he may proclaim his innocency as well in the Negative as Affirmative he saith Mine is not Malignant bloud though c. was Mr. Loves desire to condemn himself in speaking these things or are they the words of a man taking shame unto himself and justifying God thereby The truth is he hath condemn●d himself by speaking them all along calling evill good and good evill putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter stumblings and mistakes of a very sad import so neer the threshold of death ANIMAD upon Sect. 25. In the beginning of this Section he seems in part to repent of the former but his words are of no good consistence He proves God to be very just by this that his prison was not his Hell c. inasmuch as he had deserved it This is an argument to prove him gracious or mercifull but that men have not in punishment what they have deserved in sin hath no face of a proof that God is very just If Mr. Love had here also stood upon his Justification and said I have not deserved it his Argument had been more

truth he could say in the Apostles sence wherein doubtless he would be understood to speak I have kept the Faith I leave to his Great Lord and Master both his and mine to determine ANIMAD upon Sect. 29 30. In these two Sections Mr. Love commends by Prayer both himself and his own Soul as all others whom he judged it meet to pray for unto God In a great part of this Prayer and of the particular Requests made therein I apprehend nothing but what is savory and Christian I trust that these words towards the latter end of this prayer Lord hear pardon all his infirmities wipe away his iniquities by the blood of Christ c. carried in them an implicite Repentance both of that sin against God of those high Crimes and late great miscarriages against the Parliament for which as himself a few days before this Prayer confessed he was justly condemned as likewise of all those most untrue bitter and Unchristian invectives uttered against the Parliament and State in this Speech upon the Scaffold together with all the rest of the sins of his life And when in his last Petition he prayeth to be received by God pure and spotless and blameless before him in love I trust he prayed not to be received by God as any other person then what he really and in truth was and consequently That he was blameless in love If so then was that spirit of spleen and Unchristian bitterness by which he spake so many unseemly things against those who little deserved it at his hand in the foregoing Speech by this time vanished and gone out of him And indeed it was now high time to cast him out because there had been no entrance for Mr. Love into his Fathers house he speaks of in his company When he saith That he had made God his Hope and his Confidence from his youth up I wish that his heart did not deceive him It is not lightly possible that men should labor so in the fire as Mr. Love did to promote or uphold a carnal and worldly Interest who truly make God their Hope and Confidence As in his zeal for God and for the bringing of the souls of men to heaven he was equalized if not exceeded by the Jews in Pauls days and by the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviours who compassed Sea and Land to make one Proselyte so was he also in his glorying or boasting in God Foundations not Buildings or Superstructions are the great Oracles in Religion to be consulted about the Spiritual Estates of men After he had gloried this great glorying in God Lord thou hast setled this perswasion in my heart That as soon as ever the blow is given to divide my head from my body I shall be united to my Head in Heaven he prayeth thus O blessed Jesus apply thy blood not onely for my justification unto life but also for my comfort for the quieting of my soul c. And again Hear the Prayers of all thy people that have been made for thy servant and though thou hast denied Prayer as to the particular Request concerning my Life yet let herein the fruit of Prayer be seen That thou wilt bear up my heart against the fear of death If the former glorying had succeeded these Petitions and not gone before them the consistence between the one and the other had been of a better and more easie Interpretation When he prayeth for his Covenant-keeping-Brethren in the Kingdom of Scotland he prayeth for a Generation of men that is not Covenant-keepers being several yeers since perished from amongst the Inhabiters of that Nation Covenant-takers are here generally metempsychosed into Covenant-breakers His Petition To make England and Scotland one staff in the Lords hand The Lord I trust will shortly perform That he should pray so particularly for men of a Forraign Nation and for a Brother of remote Blood though of near relation in guilt and not once mention in his Prayer his nearest relations in Nature Wife or Children especially having brought them into an afflicted and sad condition by his Miscarriages was the observation of some sober men present not without offence ANIMAD upon Sect. 31. I have nothing to Animadvert upon this Section but onely that which helps me to hope the better of his present Condition as viz. That I perceive no breathing at all herein of that evil spirit of Wrath and Discontent which had wrought so effectually in him until his Prayer in the two last Sections and the more immediate approaches of Death The departure of this spirit from him before his own is a ground of good hope That this latter shall not be sent thither from whence the former came FINIS