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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

company also exprest a dislike thereof Mr. Drake also read a Letter in this meeting but to whom it was I know not neither know I the Contents of it I was at least a dozen times called out of the Room whiles the Company were there so that I am not able to give so ful and particular an accompt of the Contents of the Letter and of the Commission and Instruction What Mr. Drake did about the Commission and Instructions after he was gone from my house I know not what and by whom he sent I know not until Maj. Alford declared before the High Court That he received the Papers from Mr. Drake carried them to Gravesend and delivered to one Mason and he caried them to Holland There was at this meeting Maj. Huntington M. Drake D. Drake M. Jackson M Jenkins M. Cauton Maj. Alford M Gibbons Maj. Adams Cap. Farr and my selfe with others whom I cannot remember There is one thing more I make bold to mention That there are other persons besides those I have named who did now and then come to my house as M. Robinson M. Nalton M. Haviland M. Blackmore Col. Vaughan Col. Sowton were present at one time or another but at what particular meeting I cannot positively say Thus I have cleerly laid open the whole matter of Fact so far as I well remember and distinctly know of passages about these meetings and Transactions at my House Tower of London July 22. 1651. I attest the truth of this Narrative under my hand Christopher Love Mr. Love's Speech made on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill August 22. 1651. BEloved Christians I am this day made a Spectacle unto God Angels and men and among them I am made a grief to the godly a laughing stock to the wicked and a gazing stock to all yet blessed be my God not a terror to my self although there be but a little between me and death yet this bears up my heart there is but a little between me and Heaven It comforted Dr. Taylor the martyr when he was going to Execution That there were but two stiles between him and his fathers house there is a lesser way between me and my fathers house but two steps between me and glory it is but lying down upon the block and I shall ascend upon a Throne I am this day sa●ling towards the Ocean of Eternity through a rough passage to my Haven of rest through a red Sea to the promised Land methinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses Goe up to Mount Nebo and dye there so goe thou up to Tower-hill and dye there Isaac said of himself That he was old and yet he know not the day of his death but I cannot say thus I am young and yet I know the day the kind and the place of my death also it is such a kind of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me Iohn the Baptist and Paul the Apostle we have mention of the one in Scripture story of the other in Ecclesiastical History and Rev. 20.4 The Saints were beheaded for the word of God and for the testimony of Iesus But herein is the disadvantage which I am in in the thoughts of many who judge that I suffer not for the Word or Conscience but for medling with State matters To this I shall briefly say That it is an old guise of the Devil to impute the cause of Gods peoples sufferings to be contrivements against the State The Rulers of Israel would put Ieremiah to death upon a Civil account though it was the truth of his Prophesie made them angry because he fell away to the Chaldeans so Paul must dye as a mover of sedition The same thing is laid to my charge whereas indeed it is because I pursue my Covenant and will not prostitute my p●inciples to the lusts of men Beloved I am this day to make a double exchange I am changing a Pulpit for a Scaffold and a Scaffold for a Throne and I might add a third I am changing this numerous multitude upon Tower-hill for the innumerable company of angels in the holy hill of Zion and I am changing a guard of Sould●ers for a guard of angels which will receive me and carry me into Abrahams bosome This Scaffold is the best Pulpit I ever Preached in for in the Church Pulpit God through his grace made me an instrument to bring others to heaven but ' in this he will bring me to heaven and it may be this Speech upon a Scaffold may bring God more glory then many Sermons in a Pulpit Before I lay down my neck upon the block I shall lay open my Case and that without animosity or revenge God is my record whom I serve in the spirit I speak the truth and lye not I doe not bring a revengefull heart unto the Scaffold this day before I came here upon my bended knees I have beg'd mercy for them that denied mercy to me I have prayed God to forgive them who would not forgive me I have forgiven from my heart the worst enemy I have in all the world and this is the worst that I wish to my Accusers and Prosecuters who have pursued my blood that I might meet their souls in Heaven 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 I am now to doe that I who am to doe a work I never did I may have a strength that I never had that I may put off this body with as much quietnesse and comfort of mind as ever I put off my Cloaths to goe to bed And now I am to commend my soule to God and to receive my fatall blow I am comforted in this though men kill me they cannot damne me and tho they thrust me out of the world yet they cannot shut me out of heaven I am now going to my long home to heaven my fathers house to the heavenly Ierusalem to the innumerable Company of Angels to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant to the spirits of just men made perfect to God the Judge of all in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore 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 believing I lye down with a world of comfort And then saying The Lord bless you he lay down with his head over the block and when he stretched out his hands the Executioner did his office The humble Petition of William Jenkins Prisoner Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner is unfeignedly sorrowfull for all his late miscarriages whether testified against him or acknowledg'd by him and for the great and sinfull unsutablenesse of them to his Calling and Condition That upon earnest seeking of God and