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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

untruth this is hath been already shewed where we found Matters of a far higher Nature proved against him then these But I cannot but tremble to meet with those words from his mouth That for the things I am condemned neither doth God nor my own Conscience condemn me When I compare them with words coming from himself both in his Narrative and Petition a few days before In his Narrative as was formerly observed he acknowledged once and again the Justice of the Parliament in their Proceedings against him In his Third Petition he professeth himself unfeignedly sorrowful for his violating the Laws of this Commonwealth In his Fourth and last he hath these words The consideration whereof speaking of the Grace of the Parliament in his Reprieval melteth the heart of your Petitioner and maketh him after a more narrow search into his heart and ways more deeply sensible then ever of his sin against God and more sorrowful for his High Crimes and Offences against the Parliament in his late and great miscarriages c. Doth not God condemn sin committed against him as well in Mr. Love as in other men Or was Mr. Love Antinomianized at his death holding that God seeth no sin in believers Or however was Mr. Loves Conscience so desperately now hardned as not to condemn him for high Crimes and great Miscarriages If his meaning were That God had pardoned the sins for which he was brought to the Scaffold and in this respect did not condemn him for them or that his Conscience notwithstanding these sins did not condemn him for an Hypocrite nulli fidian or the like the words were nothing but a meer delusion of the people When he comes to wash off the aspersion of his being a man of a turbulent spirit § 12. How notoriously and indeed senslesly doth he prevaricate with his Cause in hand doing like a man that should with an importune confidence assert his Chastity and yet immediately commit the crime of Adultery in the very face of those before whom he had endeavored such a Vindication of himself For who is a man of a turbulent spirit but he that seeks and sets himself to divide between Rulers and those that ought to live in subjection unto them by alienating the mindes and affections of the one from the other Upon which there must needs follow an interruption and disturbance of the Political Harmony and Accord in the State and Commonwealth Or what course can be taken by any man of a most desperate Consequence for the firing of the spirits of People with Hatred and Revenge against their Governors then to accuse them of Usurpation of their Power on the one hand and with the Administration of it with Injustice and Cruelty on the other and withal to labor to possess the people with a conceit That God hath determined to cast them out of the possession of their Power with Ignominy and Shame Or are not these words of Mr. Loves Those who have gotten power into their hands by policy c. Words of this import and conquently of as turbulent an inspiration as a tongue set on fire of Hell as the Apostle speaketh could lightly utter Is this Mr. Loves ingenuity his meekness his sweetness of spirit his forgiving from his heart the worst of his enemies If this be his forgiveness what would his revenge have been How true is that intelligence which we have from Solomon The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Whereas the Cruelties so called by Mr. Love of just men are tender mercies Neither can the persons whom he so unchristianly traduceth by any act whatsoever express more Mercy greater Compassion towards the many Millions of persons in the Land then by cutting off evil doers from it by the Sword of Justice such especially who defile it with Blood But with what face could Mr. Love charge those in Power to have gotten this power into their hand by policy if by policy he means any thing dishonest or dishonorable unto them Were not those who now sit in Parliament lawfully called to these places of trust by the people Or was it any ways dishonest or dishonorable in them to keep their Covenant in bringing the Grand Delinquent and Incendiary of the Land to condign punishment Or to dissolve that Government under the intolerable Oppressions and Vexations whereof the people of the Nation had now groaned these 500 years and upwards wanting either the heart or opportunity until now to break the yoke of so cruel a bondage Or was it any policy in them but what was most worthy men in those high places of trust committed unto them by the people when they clearly and by sufficient experience found That the House of Peers who had no Parliamentary Interest granted unto them by the people together with some of their own Members daily prevaricating with the common cause and real Interest of the people palpably bent in their Counsels and Actings to have kept the Nation under the abomination of that Tyrannical Insolency and Power from which it was now in an hopeful way of deliverance Was it I say any unworthy policy in those now in power to provide for the Liberties Peace and Safety of the people by discharging the one and the other from those places of Interest and Power which gave them the opportunity of practising with so high an hand against them Whereas they are charged to use their Power with cruelty this is so broad-fac'd a calumny that nothing need be said for their vindication from it Magistrates are not therefore cruel because they carry not the sword in vain or because being Ministers of God to take vengeance on evil doers they fulfil their Ministery in this kinde Cruelty would be much more truly and justly chargeable upon them in case they should carry the sword in vain and suffer evil doers Traytors Incendiaries Disturbers of States and Commonwealths c. to pass unpunished And therefore unless Mr. Love could either have produced some better ground for his charge of Cruelty against the State then his own sufferings or else have evicted not onely the many evidences brought against him as an evil doer but his own confessions also in this behalf he had provided much better for his honor and conscience too by leaving this charge to be levied by some son of Belial who hath neither honor nor conscience to pollute Whereas he undertakes to Prophesie That those in Power will lose it with Ignominy it is well for them that as the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God so neither doth the righteousness of God accomplish the wrath of man But upon what account doth Mr. Love prophesie this hard prediction against the State If God revealed it unto him certainly it is a new light and himself in the sequel of this Speech chargeth us to take heed of believing new Lights it may be because himself had no more whither wisdom orgrace then to lose his Ministery with Ignominy therefore

Nation by the English Army This he declares against unto the other he is silent as consenting to it All the world may hereby see that his Principles were calculated according to the exigency of his Interest and Faction and not for the service of Righteousness and Truth For was not the Scotish Nation joyned in the same Covenant with the English wherein the English was joyned with the Scotish If not the English made a very sorry Bargain in covenanting with the Scotish If so then suppose the Grounds and Reasons for the one Invasion and the other had been but equal or the same and that the English could give no better an Accompt otherwise of their invading as Mr. Love is pleased to clothe a smooth Action with a rough garment the Scotish Nation then the Scotish are able to give of their invading England yet the English Invasion of Scotland is much more justifiable or excusable then the Scotish of England in as much as the Scotish were first in the Provocation But as hath been lately proved the sending of an Army by the English into Scotland is every ways justifiable warranted by the judgements and decisions of the best learned in the Civil Laws who are very competent Judges in the Cause being altogether unrelated unto the persons or Nations Whereas there hath not yet been nor indeed can there be any tolerable Accompt given of the Scotish Invasion of this Nation Besides what hath been formerly said to take off whatsoever may seem unjust or hard in the sending of an Army into Scotland by the Parliament of England two things further may here be added First that presently after the Execution of the late King they the Scotish Nation proclaimed their own King King of England Secondly not content with this Usurpation over this Nation they engaged themselves further to assist him in his Acquirement of the English Throne So that when the English Army went into Scotland there was no such thing in being as that Covenant between the two Nations which Mr. Love speaks of the Scotish having before this broken it in pieces and troden it under their feet and so had absolutely disobliged the English from the bands or terms of it But when he saith ●hat because Scotland will not be a Commonwealth they shall not be a People doubtless in stead of speaking his Conscience he spits out his Gall For he could not but know that the English had no quarrel at all took no offence against the Scotish for chusing themselves to be a Kingdom rather then a Commonwealth but because they would not suffer the English to be a Commonwealth but would compel them by force of arms to be a Kingdom like to them yea and to take a King of their chusing For the Friendly Assistance Mr. Love speaks of as given by the Scotish to the English it was rather Assistance then friendly For with that Assistance they gave they mingled much Hostility behaving themselves like persons light-fingered who when a well furnished house is on fire are easily invited to assist in the quenching of it and very possibly may do some service this way but their eye is more upon booty then service or assistance However if the Scotish have given assistance to the English worthy Mr. Love's Epithite the English are not behinde-hand with them in that kinde of courtesie A friendly Assistance was very lately given to the Covenanting Party in Scotland when they stood in mickle need of it by the English and this not onely without any covenanted hire but also without any uncovenanted spoyl or plunder The Scotish were double paid for their Assistance by the English the English were royal and gave theirs freely I shall not disturb Mr. Love in his cleaving to his Oaths Vows Covenants and Protestations Nor do I marvel at all that he should rather desire to dye a Covenant-keeper then live a Covenant-breaker but this I confess I do more then marvel at That this being his desire he should be no more loyal and true to it then both to live and die not a Covenant-keeper but a Covenant-breaker and this in the main and most important Articles of the Covenant such I mean which respect the Safety Peace and Liberties of the Nation ANIMAD upon Sect. 17. His good wishes to the City of London God perform his fears may they vanish as the grounds of them here expressed are for the most part empty and light As to contempt of the Ministery the number I confess of the children of this guilt is too great the Lord in mercy lessen it Yet blessed be God it is not so great as the Arithmetique of Mr. Love's known principles computeth it They are not all guilty of contempt of the Ministery who do not honor every man that calleth himself a Minister or that preacheth with the invisible Character of Imposition of hands upon him The contempt of some who look to be honored as Ministers may rather be matter of wisdom and duty then of sin There are sundry kindes of Ministers from whom men are commanded by God to turn away Such as are Clouds without water and full of fire in stead thereof such as are raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame such as ordinarily build hey and stubble and wood in stead of silver gold and precious stones the Judgements and Consciences of understanding men will not suffer them to honor But Mr. Love here according to the Politique Dialect of his Tribe would fain have the neglect which many Ministers very deservedly suffer to be thought not the neglect of their persons but of their Function and Ministery that so themselves may not be suspected as accessary to it Whereas the certain truth is that far the greatest part of that which he here calls the Contempt of the Ministery is nothing else but a Rush growing out of the mire of the Ministers themselves However if Mr. Love made an estimate of the Contempt of the Ministery in the City of London either by his own Parish and People or by the view and bulk of his more usual Auditory he had I presume no great reason to prophesie evil or danger against the City for that sin What he means by Opposition against Reformation is I suppose too well known to be looked upon by men acquainted with the ways methods and grounds of Gods Judgements as any thing much endangering the City in this kinde Opposition I confess against that Reformation of the hearts lives and ways of men which the Scriptures every where with all importunity press upon the Consciences of men is a sad symptom of imminent danger to a City or People where it is general But Opposition to that which in the Dialect of High Presbytery which Mr. Love much useth is termed Reformation is little symptomatical in that kinde There is the same Consideration of his Covenant-breaking There is a Covenant-breaking which doubtless hath brought London much lower then otherwise it should or

Conscience being honest and good and rightly informed Whereas Mr Love suffered a beheading if for the discharge of his Conscience which I think to considering men must needs be very questionable yet was it for the discharge of an erroneous conscience as his Petitioners themselves pleaded by way of extenuation of his Crime yea indeed of a conscience so desperate erroneous and corrupt that the like conscience hath scarce been heard of no not among the Heathen themselves much less among Christians viz. That a man stands bound in stead of being subject to the Powers that are which is the express Commandment of God to destroy or practice the destruction of these Powers So that Mr Love's conscience for which as he saith he suffered being truly interpreted was such a conscience by which he judged himself bound to act in a Diametral opposition to the plain and express revealed Will of God And whether such a conscience as this be a Christian foundation of Martyrdom let Mr Love 's greatest Friends judge Concerning Paul and the Saints spoken of in the Revelation they were beheaded for the Word of God and for the testimony of Iesus Whereas Mr Love as himself acknowledged in his Narrative written with his own hand and delivered unto the Parliament was to suffer beheading in case he should not obtain pardon from them for his sundry and great Offences confessing withal that by what he had done he was an object of their just displeasure and again that by their justice they might in one day leave a Flock without a Shepherd a Wife without an Husband Children without a Father c. Doubtless neither Paul nor the Saints mentioned by M. Love were objects of the just displeasure of those who beheaded them nor were they beheaded for their sundry and great Offences nor yet by the justice of those who punished them with death Therefore M. Love being partaker with Iudas in his sin the cause of his death can reap no honor for having Iohn or Paul or the Saints his companions in the kinde of his death And indeed might he not as well yea and much better all this duly considered have prophesied of shame and dishonor likely to acrue unto him by such a kinde of death which had been frequently inflicted upon Papists Priests and Iesuits for treasonable practices against the State and Supream Rulers thereof as indulge himself with a conceit That his death must needs become a Crown of Honor unto him because Iohn Baptist and the great Apostle Paul died the same kinde of death though as the world knoweth upon far different occasions ANIMAD upon Sect. 2. In this Section Mr. Love busieth himself in washing a Blackamoor hoping by that time he hath done to make him as white as Snow That he suffereth for the Word and Conscience and not for medling in State-matters he proves 1. Because it is an old guise of the Devil to impute the cause of Gods Peoples Sufferings to be Contrivements against the State 2. Because the Rulers of Israel would have put Jeremy to death upon a Civil account whereas the true ground was the truth of his Prophesie and that this made them angry with him 3. Because Paul though he did but preach Christ yet the people would have him dye under a pretence that he a was mover of Sedition 4. And lastly because himself saith That his Life is pretended to be taken away upon a Civil account whereas it is indeed because he pursueth his Covenant will not prostitute his Principles c. Light and darkness have in a maner as much communion between them as the three first of these Arguments with his Cause For is any guise of the Devil whatsoever a Demonstration or proof of Mr. Loves Innocency or that he must needs suffer for the Word and Conscience and not for Statizing out of his Sphaer Who is able to finde out the Quadrature of this Circle Or must Mr. Love needs be innocent of the Crimes charged upon him and proved against him because Ieremy and Paul were innocent from those Imputations which without any proof at all were charged upon them Or must those Magistrates who being persons of known godliness and worth at least a great part of them yea and Mr. Loves real and cordial Friends most of them upon Tryal found Mr. Love guilty and passed Sentence upon him accordingly must these I say of necessity be Corrupt Malicious Enemies to the Truth and Word of God because the Rulers of Israel with whom Ieremy had to do and the people with whom Paul had to do were of no better Principles or Temper Certainly neither Satan nor Ieremy nor Paul nor their Adversaries are any Legal or Rational Compurgators for Mr. Love in his Cause now in Agitation Indeed if he or any Advocate for him could as substantially prove as he confidently asserts that which follows in the fourth place viz. That his life was pretended I suppose he would rather have said intended though neither would be very proper to be taken away because he pursues his Covenant and will not prostitute his Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men this would amount somewhat near to a Proof of his Conclusion But alas for him to affirm such things as these not onely without any sufficient yea or tolerable proof or colour of proof but even against his own Concessions and Confessions in his Narrative specified under the former Section wherein he pretends over and over to Ingenuity proves nothing else but that either he wanteth ingenuity or the knowledge of his own heart or both when he spake § 4. thus God is my record whom I serve in the Spirit I speak the truth I lye not I do not bring a revengeful heart to the Scaffold this day c. I marvel what the man means by a revengeful Heart Rancor bitterness of Spirit Animosity c. Surely he is a Barbarian unto me and speaks a Language which I understand not To charge Ingenuous and Conscientious men with taking away his life because he pursues his Covenant will not prostitute his Principles and Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men with much more of like strain of which afterwards is in my understanding as pregnant as express a Symptome of a revengeful Heart Rancor c. as a person in his condition is lightly capable of Can saith Bildad in Iob the Rush grow without mire Or is it possible that such virulency and viperousness of words as those should proceed from any other Principle but from an heightned spirit of Rancor Bitterness and Revenge But what Article in Mr. Loves Covenant was it for his pursuit whereof his Life was taken from him Is there was there any such Article in this Covenant by which he stood in conscience bound to trinket with the declared and professed Enemies of the State and Nation to attempt the undermining or disturbing of the present Government here by Correspondencies and Communication of Councels with Forreign States

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

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

beleeving I lie down with a world of comfort as if I were to lie down in my Bed My Bed is but a short sleep and this Death is a long sleep where I shall rest in Abrahams bosom and in the embraces of the Lord Jesus And then saying The Lord bless you he layd himself down upon the Scaffold with his Head ove the Block And when he stretched forth his hands the Executioner cut off his Head at one blow THE PREFACE Briefly declaring the occasion of the ANIMADVERSIONS THe Roman Orator commendeth it as the property of a good Orator not onely to speak things pertinent and proper to his Cause for the promoting it but also to take heed of speaking any thing that may prove prejudicial to it The great cause which Mr. Love both in his life and at his death at least as himself insinuates over and over in his Discourse ensuing desired above all things to plead and promote was the cause of Jesus Christ and the salvation of the Souls of men Now though I can easily believe that he spake and taught many things in the time of his life and some things at the time of his death which were and are of very good consequence towards the advancement of this Cause yet I clearly finde him partly by what I read in the words uttered by him upon the Scaffold immediately before his death partly by what I have seen printed and published formerly either in his Name or with his approbation and consent partly also by what I have heard from some of his Sermons that he was very defective in the property of a good Orator mentioned and that he was apt to speak not onely things very impertinent and eccentrical to his Cause but even such things also sometimes which were of a manifest inconsistency with the Interest of it I shall at present onely give notice of such Passages or Touches which came from him in his Speech or Prayer on the Scaffold which are of a very prejudicial import to that most honorable Cause of Iesus Christ and the Salvation of men to the promotion and maintenance whereof he professeth himself to have been so entirely devoted that so what he acted or spake as a skilful Workman and was truly and really advantagious to his Cause may have a clear entire and perfect operation in order hereunto and not be incumbred foiled or impeded in their working by things of a contrary tendency and spirit mixed with it In this respect I trust his Friends will finde no cause I am sure will finde no just cause of offence in that separation of the vile from the precious which is intended in these Animadversions especially considering that if Mr. Love himself were alive with that Christian ingenuity whereunto he pretends once and again in this Discourse he could not but accept it as a Service of love and faithfulness for any man to strengthen those things which are worthy and good in him by disabling and weakning that which is otherwise However it is not meet nor of any good consistence with those sacred Respects which are due from every man unto mankinde to tempt the living unto folly by giving honor unto the dead Better it is that Mr. Love's reputation should be a little clouded then that it should glare in the weak eyes of men to make them blinde As for men of clear intellectuals and composed judgements Mr. Loves Speech might without the least danger of tempting them have been presented naked there being nothing in it but what is transparent enough to such men Onely persons of effeminate and enslaved apprehensions may possibly conceit that they see visions of worth and excellence where there is nothing but darkness and deceit and so may receive dangerous impressions from what they think they see if their eyes be not anointed with some eye-salve of such an interpretation which shall bring forth that which is within the veyl into the outer and open Court of the Temple ANIMADVERSION upon Sect. I. IN this first Section we have a first-fruits of Mr. Love's Confidence in his death together with a taste of that pleasant Fancy on which it seems he fed with much contentment whilest he yet lived viz. how honorable that Death which he was now to suffer would be unto him as wherein he should parallel those great Worthies of heaven Iohn the Baptist Paul and the Saints beheaded in the Revelation Far be it from me to envy either Mr. Love's or any other man's confidence in their death The great Desire and grand Design of my Soul is to consult with the utmost of my endeavors the Confidence of men yea of all men without exception in and at their death But though I envy no mans confidence in death yet I confess I pity the confidence of many at such a time yea I pity many surviving fearing lest the confidence of some dying should prove a snare of death unto them Mr. Love's confidence upon the Scaffold my soul pitieth having so many and such pregnant grounds of Reason in mine eyes to judge it if not hollow and heartless yet bottomless and groundless Yet I confess I pity those more who through ignorance of their grounds live under much danger of being ensnared and hardned in evil by occasion of the said confidence For when evil doers especially the first-born of this generation Traitors shall without repentance and this some ways professed die full of confidence in God whether real or pretended it is a sore temptation upon men not to be so tender or fearful of such practices as the hatred and high displeasure of God against them admonisheth them to be Therefore for the sakes of such persons who are in danger of being made confident in evil by Mr. Love's confidence at his death I shall brief●y account unto them the grounds of my great jealousie and fear that this confidence was as the Apostle speaketh in the face onely and not in the heart or if in the heart yet without any substantial or sufficient ground for the raising of it 1. The holy Ghost himself mustereth Traitors Heady High-minded persons without natural affection amongst such men who have i. e. sometimes have or may have the Form of Godliness and yet deny the power thereof Now though Mr. Love and his Abettors in their equivocal Dialect wherein like Canters they use common and familiar words in uncouth and unknown significations will not it's like call men of his Mr. Love 's practices and ways either Traitors Heady High-minded without natural affection c. yet in the ordinary and best known signification of these terms and in the sense wherein the holy Ghost useth them unless they will quarrel our English Translation he was both Traitor Heady c. and so look'd upon and adjudged by persons who are not wont to pervert or wrest words into by-significations to make the innocent guilty I do not speak now of the Parliament Councel of State or High Court of

Or was it for any thing else but such accursed Practices as these and that proved against him by many witnesses yea and confessed in his Narrative by himself that his Life was taken from him When I compare those Passages in his Narrative which he would it seems have looked upon as a Masterpiece of Ingenuity wherein he owns the Iustice of the Parliament confesseth himself an Object of their just displeasure craves pardon for his sundry and great Offences c. with the words lately mentioned and many others of like strain in the sequel of this Speech wherein he justifieth himself in the highest makes himself a Saint in what he had done a Martyr in what he should suffer chargeth his Judges and the State with persecuting him for the Word of God his Conscience for not prostituting his Principles and Conscience to their Ambition and Lusts with several other expressions of a like Hellish import I cannot but stand amazed at the searedness and debauchery of the Conscience of the man or how it should ever enter into his heart to think of being honorable in his death who thus notoriously and desperately prevaricated with his own former ingenious Confessions at the time of his death Either let one or other of his Friends or Advocates name what Principle it was one or more for the non-prostitution whereof to the ambition and lusts of men he was adjudged to death and make it good that it was for such a non-prostitution that he was thus adjudged or else the world shall have ground in abundance to believe That Mr. Love acted the part of a most Unchristian Calumniator upon the Scaffold in the very approaches of death ANIMAD upon Sect. 3. Here we have the second part of the Theatrical flashy flourishes of Mr. Loves confidence But strange it is that such virulent and desperate calumnies as he had breathed out from his soul in the words immediately preceding should be seconded with such confidential raptures and gloryings as these Is the exercising of revenge upon his enemies the rise and bottom of Mr. Loves confidence in God Doubtless Mr. Love here sacrificed to an unknown God But the copyhold of his confidence hath been touched already whereas he assumeth unto himself the honor of having been an Instrument in the Church-Pulpit of bringing others to Heaven it is well if he stretcheth not himself beyond his line Whether he hath brought any to Heaven or no I know not possibly it may so be But certain I am that of later times he hath brought many to some Hellish practises The several happy changes which here he promiseth unto himself I could with more liberty of Faith have believed might be performed unto him had he not so lately made that unhappy change of an humble Penitentiary and Confessor of his sin into an haughty and stubborn justifier of himself and calumniator of other men How his Speech upon the Scaffold should bring glory to God in any other sence then that wherein in the Apostles phrase The lie of men aboundeth to his glory I understand not I hear that one who was present at it openly said That there was more Divinity in Canterburies death then his or words to such an effect and that another having heard the said Speech brake out in these or the like words Lord have mercy upon us what shall we say or do when men will or dare tell lies at their death ANIMAD upon Sect. 4. In this Section we have a most worthy and Christian Profession as far as the interest of words can lightly contribute towards it O that there had been an heart in the Professor to have given a real account of Truth in this his verbal Profession But alass The same Fountain though not out of the same hole which sends forth these sweet Waters here sends forth most bitter Waters elsewhere as we have tasted in part and may taste further afterwards Doth Mr. Love think that either God or men will judge such a man to be free from all rancor all bitterness of spirit a revengeful heart that he hath forgiven from his heart his worst enemies c. Who loveth all words that may do them mischief who cuts them with his Tongue as with a sharp Razor who spits out of his mouth the poyson of Aspes in their very Faces and at the time of his going out of the world is more intent and bent in his spirit as far as a reasonable estimate can be made to leave them an inheritance of Hatred Ignominy Trouble and of all maner of mischiefs and evil intreaties from the world then upon any other design whatsoever whereas he seems desirous to disparage his Enemies as he calls them in comparison of himself in this That though they denied mercy unto him yet he had begged mercy for them and though they would not forgive him yet he had forgiven them the truth is That even this also is no better then a slander For upon what ground could he judg That they had not as well begged mercy for him as he for them Or did they therefore deny him mercy or not forgive him because they executed the Laws of God with the execution whereof they were entrusted I believe they forgave him in such a sence as he forgave them and if so they forgave him much more then he them I presume Mr. Love forgave them onely such debts as they had contracted by injuring him not what they had contracted by sinning against God If so then all that Mr. Love forgave them amounts to nothing at all and this by his own confession a little before who acknowledged the Justice of their proceedings against him Therefore if they forgave him as I presume in charity they did the debt which he had contracted by injuring them their forgiveness of him was much more Christian and worthy then his of them But the forgiveness of the debt which he had contracted by sinning against the Laws of God the just Laws of the Land so acknowledged by himself the peace of the Nation the lives of other men by the non-execution of Justice he had no reason to expect at their hands considering that they are the Ministers of God to take vengeance on them that do evil Rom. 13. 4. ANIMAD upon Sect. 5. If Mr. Love may be his own Judge nothing capital was sufficiently proved against him Allow him his own sence of the words capital and sufficiently and possibly he may be innocent But the High Court of Justice though a great part I think I might say the greatest of the Members of it were very real friends to him and their hearts much set to have holpen him out of the bryars as far as Justice and a good Conscience would give way were not of Mr. Loves minde touching his Innocency yea Mr. Love in his Narrative was not of the same minde in this point with himself here How he came by so much Innocency between the time of his exhibiting

terrified others c. that so the blot and shame of a miscarrying tongue may not test upon him Fourthly Because by reason of his swallowing even Camels of untruth so frequently and familiarly as he doth in this Discourse I have ground to be jealous at least lest as the conscience of the Iesuit is moulded into this principle that it is lawful to say or do things otherwise unlawful in ordine ad bonum spirituale so Mr. Love's conscience stood free and large in him to speak and do almost any thing in ordine ad bonum Presbyteriale Fifthly and lastly Because M. Love was rooted to the center of the Earth and built up to the midst of Heaven in such a Principle in Divinity which gives fair quarter to the foulest practices that are in the Saints especially when they certainly know they shall die presently viz. that no perpetration of sin and wickedness whatsoever can separate those from the love of God in Christ who have at any time believed in him ANIMAD upon Sect. 7. I never met with so many senceless and unsavory Contradictions within so small a compass as in this Speech How can Mr. Love say that he will not judge his Judges nor yet justifie them when as in the words immediately following he must of necessity either do the one or the other For if he supposeth the Oath for the sake whereof his Judges as he saith cut off his head to have been justifiable or lawful and they by the tenor and band of this Oath stood bound to do what they did in cutting off his Head then he clearly justifieth them if he supposeth either the said Oath to have been unlawful or their Fact in cutting off his Head to have been besides or contrary to this Oath and that they had no Ingagement upon them otherwise to do it then he judgeth them But the truth is we can upon no better or more favorable account ease Mr. Love in the greatest part of things uttered by him in this Speech then by conceiving that the words spoken by him bear a far differing sence and signification in his understanding from that which they bear in ours For what is it to judge in our sence of the Word then to charge with Injustice Unrighteousness acting contrary to the Word or Laws of God And whither Mr. Love doth not again and again and seven times over in this discourse thus charge his Judges I refer to his Friends themselves to judge and determine Therefore in the ordinary acception of the word Judge when Mr. Love saith he will not judge his Judges he speaks besides the Truth And though here he refuseth to justifie them yet when the Spirit of Ingenuity was upon him as himself once and again professeth it was in the Composure of his Narrative he did fairly and fully justifie them as we have already heard and is further manifest in the Narrative it self Printed herewith By the way of how sad and bleeding a consideration is it that a man whose heart served him to be ingenuous in his life should quench so Christian a Spirit and suffer himself to be hardened at the time of his death Besides did he not fully justifie his Judges in his last Petition to the Parliament in these words He humbly acknowledgeth that he hath so highly violated the Laws of the Common-wealth as that thereby he hath rendred himself guilty of the Sentence of death justly passed on him by the High Court of Justice The words immediately preceding these are of a like import ANIMAD upon Sect. 8. I shall say little upon this Section having already given notice how untruly and unchristianly he calls the Letter here specified an insulting Letter Yet to say that it was written to him for such an end as here he chargeth it with viz. To tell him that after he was dead something should be published against him c. as if this had been either the onely or the principal drift of the Letter is much more dis-ingenuous I presume there is no man that shall please to read this Letter being since printed but will acknowledge the drift and scope of it to have been honorable and Christian and not unworthy the best and dearest Friend M. Love had ANIMAD upon Sect. 9 10 11 12. M. Love here instanceth five Aspersions laid upon him in point of practice As for those of Extortion and Adultery I never so much as heard M. Love and either of them named together I will not say that M. Love prudentially subjecteth himself to such aspersions from which he knows he can sufficiently purge himself But he that lyeth under a suspition of several Crimes and is able fully to assert his innocency in respect of any one or more of them gains an advantage hereby to make the purgation of himself from the rest the more creditable Concerning Murther neither did I ever hear this formally or in the letter of it laid to his charge But that in his Communications with the King of Scots and other persons of his adherency declared Enemies to the State and Government of this Commonwealth he was eminently and transcendently a murtherer hath been sufficiently proved against him upon oath by many witnesses yea his own Confessions in his Narrative and Petitions do not fall much short of such a proof Therefore whereas § 11. he traduceth those who charge him with the guilt of that blood which hath been spilt in the present Wars between the two Nations that they do by him as Nero did by the Christians c. a notion suggested by the same spirit of Revenge unto his fellow Gibbons also he deals by them as Potiphar's wife did by her servant Joseph who being incontinent her self accused him of incontinency to his Lord because he refused to gratifie her lust M. Love Mr. Gibbon and the rest of their Association being desirous that this State and those in present power amongst us should condescend to their impolitique Principles and Humors in admitting the Scotish King to a monarchical Throne over this Nation and herein to own a Scotisb Superintendency over them and the Nation and they refusing to comport with them in such their lusts and desires and attempting by the best and indeed the onely means they had to withstand the said King in his claim to the English Throne together with the Scotish Nation his imperious and proud Abettors in this his Claim upon this Account and this onely Mr. Love and M. Gibbon charge the Blood that hath been spilt in the present Wars between the Nations upon the State and present Powers amongst us Let the world if there be a part of it yet unbewitched and capable of judging give Sentence in case there be blood spilt between a company of Thieves and a like party of harmless Travellers by the way upon occasion of an Assault made by the former upon the latter whether the spilling of this blood be to be charged upon the latter or the

former Nor let any Advocate either for M. Love or M. Gibbon think to justifie them in their imputation of the said blood spilt upon the State or men in present power by pretending that they sent an Army into Scotland and made war upon the said King and Scotish Nation before they attempted any thing against this For evident it was and is circumstances purporting hostility in that Nation against this standing as then they did that the warlike Preparations and Levies at this time on foot and hastened in that Nation sorely threatned and endangered this So that the war since breaking out between the two Nations was not occasioned or properly begun by the English Army sent into Scotland but by those Levies and formidable Preparations for War which the Scotish King and Nation were advancing with an high hand before the said English Army came amongst them Nor is there the least colour or pretext of Reason to think that in case the said Army had not entred the Scotish Territories the War hereby might have been prevented because the Scotish Nation was now big with this bloody birth ready to cry out and to be delivered when the said Army entred All that can reasonably be imputed to the entrance of the English Army into Scottish quarters before their entrance into English is was That Scotland by this means became the Seat of the War which otherwise England must have been It is the opinion and judgement of Civilians generally That men may lawfully make War when they fear lest themselves should be warred upon We ought not saith Albericus Gentilis a learned Civilian in Oxford in Queen Elizabeth's days we ought not to expect present Force it is more safe if we meet with that which is future with much more to this purpose transcribed by M. Prynne in his third Part of the Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms cap. 14. where a judicious Reader may receive plenary satisfaction not simply concerning the Lawfulness but also the Necessity of the Parliaments sending an Army into Scotland under such circumstances as then ruled So that it was unworthiness of spleen and revenge both in M. Love and M. Gibbons though they be both great pretenders to meekness and clearness of spirit towards their Adversaries not goodness of Conscience that prompted them upon the Scaffold with this imputation against those whom they call their Adversaries viz. That they are the men upon whose heads the blood spilt between the two Nations resteth And as the high Priest with the chief Priests took it very hainously at the hand of the Apostles that they should charge them with the crucifying of Christ Ye have filled Jerusalem say they with your Doctrine and intend to bring this mans blood upon us So do M. Love and his fellows swell with indignation against those who entitle them to the late blood-shed between the Nations though their title in this kinde be as unquestionable as that of the Priests to the crucifying of Christ It cannot upon any tolerable account of Reason be said That had not the English Army entred Scotland no blood between the Nations had been spilt but it may upon a very lively and pregnant account be said That had not M. Love M. Gibbons with the rest of the Conspiracy tampered the King of Scots into an Agreement with that Nation by solemn promissory engagement of themselves and their Party in England to stand by him upon that condition and by signifying unto him and his Party their disaffections to the present Government this blood had not been shed And this I have credibly heard to be the acknowledged soul-perswasion of one of the greatest and ablest parts amongst the Conspirators The Conclusion here is That both M. Love and M. Gibbon wash their hands from blood with very foul water and which defiles them yet more when they burthen their Adversaries so called by them with that guilt which sticks so fast and close unto themselves and is the fruit not of the Ambition and Lusts of their Adversaries but of their own Whereas in purging himself from the Aspersion of Lying he saith thus I hope you will believe a dying man who dare not look God in the face with a lie in his mouth intimating as if his being ready to die was a bridle in his lips to restrain him from lying the truth is according to that principle of his formerly mentioned that he who ever once truly believed can never by any sin or wickedness whatsoever lose the love and favor of God his being ready to die in conjunction with a perswasion of his Saintship should rather be a temptation upon him to lie or commit any other wickedness then an engagement upon him to refrain lying For in case he were in hope of living still in the world and should practice lying or any other sin he had cause to fear that though God would not cast him out of his saving Love for such practices yet he might and would severely punish him otherwise But when a person of such a principle certainly knows that he shall presently die he hath no ground to fear any punishment at all from God for whatsoever he shall now either say or do because death according to the said principle delivers him for ever out of his hand Nor am I free from all Jealousie but that the Principle I speak of had some malignant inf●uence upon M. Love's spirit in many of those unworthy strains and misdemeanors which proceeded from him at his death Whereas he pleads to that particular indictment of lying insisted upon by himself That what he denied before the High Court of Justice he neither afterwards confessed himself nor was it proved by others against him very possibly in his equivocal sence of the words denying proving and confessing that which he pleads may be true But M. Love had he been ingenuous when he was before a Court of Judicature where the common and known Dialect of the Law useth to be spoken and where critical and captious Formalities of speech are not expected he should have denied onely such things which according to a Law-sense of the words used by him he could truly have denied Upon these terms he could neither have denied that he ever wrote Letter to the King Queen Church or State of Scotland nor yet that he never received any Letter c. Because in the Law-signification of the words writing Letters they are as well said to write Letters who are either advising or consenting to or directing in the writing of them as they who write them with a Pen And I presume That if any man aspersed Mr. Love with the Crime of Lying in this particular by lying they meant equivocating and so used the milder term of the two in their Charge But whereas he presently saith That he came meaning to die upon the Scaffold onely for moving for money for Massey and for being present when Letters were read c. How notorious an

Governments is not of so much weight as to counterpoise the lightest Argument in oppositum His affection of hatred equally bent against Court Parasites who would screw up Monarchy into Tyranny and against those who pull it down to bring in Anarchy is praise-worthy Onely I suspect in the latter Clause an evil eye of insinuation against the Parliament as if he desired to infuse this foolish Faith into the people That they pulled down Monarchy not with any intent to set up a better Government in the stead of it but to bring in Anarchy or Confusion Whether he was at any time formerly for putting the King to death or no I cannot positively say if he was not he was an unhappy man to express himself both in words and deeds so like unto a man of such intentions as he did He confesseth his judgement formerly was and still is for the bringing of Malignants who did seduce him and drew him from the Parliament to condign punishment But what if Malignants did not so much seduce him in this kinde as he them who now deserve and this according to the express letter of the Covenant to be brought to condign punishment They that best knew him have often said That himself was the head and not the tayl of those Councels by which he acted against the Parliament I know no alteration in the Cause between what is now and what it was at the time Mr. Love speaks of unless it be in this That the Parliament now both with more Christianity and better Policy causeth the Presbyterian Interest to contain it self in its own proper Channel which before was like the River Jordan in the time of Harvest when he overflows his banks ANIMAD upon Sect. 15. Here M. Love professeth that he dies with his judgement not satisfied to take the Engagement and yet prays God to forgive those who subscribe it What is this being interpreted but to pray to God to forgive those concerning whom he is not satisfied in his judgement whether they sin or no But as Paul having first given this testimony to the Galatians ye did run well then expostulatingly demands of them who hindred you that you should not obey i. e. continue to obey the truth So let me first give this Testimony to M. Love as I have given it already being furnished with it from his own Petitions He did some few days before run well not simply in owning the present Government but also in engaging himself home to it and for it and then expostulate with his friends himself not being in a capacity to answer who hindred him that he should not hold out in so good and commendable a race unto the end He labors in the very fire to purge himself from the Crime as now the Scaffold it seems had made it of his late owning the present Government but the fire he useth is purely elementary and will not purge or burn For if David and Hushai gave the Title of King to Absolom there is little question but in a sense and that intended by them it did of right belong to him Neither the one nor the other of them gave the title of King to him until he was proclaimed King by the men of Israel yea and was possessed of the royal city Jerusalem the Throne So that he was truly and properly King when the Title of King was given by these men unto him though it is true he came to be a King and so to have right to such a Title in a most wicked and treasonable way So that both David and Hushai look'd upon Absolom as a true King though with usurpation when they gave the Title unto him and consequently did nothing contrary to their judgements and consciences herein But M. Love it seems was not perswaded in his judgement or conscience that the Parliament was the Parliament or Supream Authority of the Commonwealth of England when he gave these Titles unto them therefore he sinned against his conscience in so doing So that saying That herein he did not wrong or cross his Principles doth he not plainly imply that his Principles and Conscience thwart and cross the one the other If he had any such Principle which either led him or gave him leave to act or speak against his Conscience it was a Principle of darkness and of death If Calvin judged that the Title Christianissimus did in no sense belong to the French King I know not who can excuse him in giving it unto him And if the Subjects of this Nation did generally give the Title Defender of the Faith unto Henry the eighth knowing no sufficient ground why it should or could with truth be given unto him neither can they be defended or justified in giving it But why doth M. Love insert or insist upon these words In case of Life Doth he suppose that the case he speaks of will alter the case of owning the present Government from sin to righteousness Or is it his Principle That to save his Life he may do any thing whatsoever and yet be blameless But how doth he here toyl and turmoyl himself to salve the honor of his Conscience onely that he might reproach and calumniate the Parliament with the more authority reputation yet he that spent so much of his breath which at such a time when he had so very little of it left should have bin precious to him about vindicating his innocency in owning the present Government though it was it seems as much against his Principles to own it then when he did own it as it is now when he disowns it no change as himself professeth being made in his Principles by the Scaffold hath not a word either here or elsewhere to speak for himself hath not a drop of water to wash off that foul stain and blot from his Conscience which it contracted by casting dirt and mire in the faces of those not onely whom he had a few days before owned in the capacity of their Government and Authority but to whom likewise he had publiquely given a large testimony of Justice Mercy Wisdom Gravity of being the Elect of God c. yea and to whom he had publiquely and solemnly promised and engaged himself neither to plot contrive or design any thing prejudicial to them but to oppose any Design whatsoever against them Doubtless neither David nor Hushai nor Calvin nor any man either of Conscience or Honor would have broken or falsified especially so publiquely and in the face of the Sun such solemn Promises and Engagements made to persons in dignity and to whom they had so immediately before given such large testimony of many worthy Endowments and all this without giving the least accompt of such desultory and fedifragous practices ANIMAD upon Sect. 16. It seems by the Contents of this Section that Mr. Love's Principles stood fair for the Invasion of the English Nation by the Scotish Army but fell foul upon the Invasion of the Scotish

needed to have been and which if not more repented of will lay it yet much lower But the Execution of Justice upon the late King the Non-admission of the present King of Scotland to the English Throne the Non-elevation of the Standard of High Presbytery the Non-opposing of all that Mr. Love opposed under the name and notion of Error and Heresie the Non-forbearance of sending an Army into Scotland which are sufficiently known to be meant by Mr. Love's Covenant-breaking these are so far from being any ways prognostique of evil towards the City that to men of free and sound judgements they are auspicious of a good and gracious presage What he means by his General Apostacy his Principles considered I confess I understand not He denies a possibility of Apostacy from any thing that is truly good or pleasing unto God and how Apostatizing from that which is otherwise as from Hypocrisie Formality Lukewarmness or the like should be of any ill abode or presage unto men opposeth my apprehensions True it is that the City as he saith is a great Receptacle of Error though of All I cannot say with him But first all that Mr. Love calleth Error is not therefore Error or proved to be Error because he so calleth it Doubtless Mr. Love was not greater then Paul and therefore knew but in part Now he that knows but in part is not competent to determine in whole Secondly A great part of those Errors with which the City is really polluted call Mr. Love and Ministers of his Sect if not Patres yet Patronos If he and others of his fellows did not broach them yet have they drawn them forth and given the City to drink Thirdly Another considerable part of them are the legitimate Issue of his and their spurious Doctrines and nothing else but the natural and express consequents of those unsound principles wherewith he seasoned many But I trust that the light of the Truth as it is in Jesus breaking forth dayly with greater brightness will scatter a great part at least of that mist of errours which yet much darkeneth the City though it be a Goshen compared with any other City that I know or have heard of throughout the world so that the errours yet resident in it shall not be the ruine of it ANIMAD upon Section 18 19 20. In these three Sections he commends himself in five particulars of spiritual advice unto the inhabitants of the City First He beggs of them to love their painful and godly Ministers but lest there should be error in personâ he presently informs them that he means Presbyterian If these were sometimes counted the Chariots and horsemen of Israel and are now the great eye-sore I fear it is because they are turn'd to be the Chariots and horse-men of Aram. But to whom are they the great eye-sore he speaks of I suppose he means to the State and men in power I confess there is ground enough for Master Love to suspect I am willing to think that he useth the word know in the lowest signification that the persons he speaks of are a great eye-sore unto these men and many others there being so much visible in many of them which cannot lightly but offend and grieve the eyes of all beholders whose eyes are not of the same constitution and temper with theirs But the spirit of High-Presbytery is exceeding querulous and effeminate If the State will not fulfill all their pleasure and gratifie them in toto in solido of all they demand or expect it presently casts them into fits of passion and discontent they are men neglected and despised Setting aside what hath been done to a few of the sons of this late Conspiracy against the State they have no ground at all from any measure they have received from the State to judge themselves any great eye-sore to it I know not what they would have more from the State then what they have unless it be All things under their feet When he tells them that ten of their godly Ministers are taken from them at one blow I know not how he will make up his account unless he reckons himself for more then the one half of them As for those who fled from them when none pursued them but their own guilt he cannot upon any competent account of truth number these amongst those that were taken from them by others But what blow was it by which so many were taken away from them as were taken Or who gave this blow When God cast off the ten tribes he imputes it to their Idolatry Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off Hos 8. So when He and the Jews were parted or separated the one from the other He imputeth this separation to their sins Your iniquities have separated between you and your God Esa 59. That which in punishments justly inflicted is afflicting or destroying is not to be charged upon the Judge but upon the offence and crime committed Upon this account the blow by which Mr. Love tells the Citizens of London that so many of their godly Ministers verbo sit venia were taken from them was not given either by the Parliament Councell of State or High Court of Justice but by their own ungodlinesse and treasonable practises against the State and Common-wealth these are they which have taken away so many of their Ministers at once These Ministers were no waies necessitated to practise that evill which they did but their Judges were necessitated in point of Conscience and by the command of God to inflict that punishment upon them which they now suffer for their evill therefore this punishment is not to be imputed to their Judges but to themselves and their own miscarriages 2. He exhorts the said persons of his present addresse the Inhabitants of the City That they would submit themselves to Church-Government which would lay a curb and restraint upon their lusts telling them that it is a golden and easie yoke c. The exhortation in generall is weighty and worthy by all men to be received Church-Government as the kind and constitution together with the administration of it may and ought to be is of a most Soveraign vertue and import for that great end he speaks of But that Church Government which Mr. Love intends at least as far as the Christian world hath had the triall of it hitherto in such administrations of it as it hath found amongst men hath given but a very slender testimony of any such heavenly vertue or vigor in it Hâc non succ●ssit aliâ aggrediundum est viâ 3. He admonisheth them to take heed of Doctrines that come under the n●tion of new lights If by new lights he means Doctrines brought into the world since the compleating of the Scriptures and which cannot by a legitimate and clear descent derive their pedigree from these the admonition is wholesome and grave but if by his new lights he means all such Doctrines or Tenets

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