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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

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

Justice onely but of all sorts of persons in the Land who have not either their hand or their heart in Mr. Love's counsels and practices I mention those whom the Apostle terms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without natural affection in reference to Mr. Love because it was the observation of some who were present at his Execution from first to last that though he prayed for his fellow-Traitor and the Scots not onely the profess'd but highly exprest Enemies of his Countrey and Nation yet he made not the least mention either of his wife or children either in his Prayer or Discourse Now if Mr. Love at his death was no better then a person having the Form of Godliness but denying the power thereof there was no good ground for that his confident rejoycing therein 2. The Lord Christ saith expresly That if we forgive not men their trespasses neither will our Heavenly Father forgive us our trespasses Now though Mr. Love pretends fairness and clearness of spirit in this kinde again and again and that he brought no rancor or revengefulness of heart to the Scaffold yet that he was inwardly full of this rottenness his most venemous virulent false and bitter Insinuations against the Parliament and State uttered upon the Scaffold testifie to the face of his greatest Advocates See especially upon this account Sect. 12 where you will finde him so unchristianly and with such insufferable rancor and malice inveighing against the State that one of the present Magistrates acknowledged by Mr. Love himself and not without cause a good Friend of his openly professed that he was not able to endure it Now if Mr. Love died upon such terms that his Heavenly Father could not according to his expresly declared will forgive him his trespasses certainly he could have no sufficient ground for that confidence which he expressed at his death 3. We read in Scripture of many confidences and rejoycings in men and these Professors without sufficiency of ground to justifie or bear them out Paul speaks of some who gloried 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the face or in appearance not in the heart And our Savior himself speaketh of many who as he saith will say unto him i. e. think at present that they may with confidence say unto him in that great day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name and in thy Name cast out devils and in thy Name done many wonderful works To whom notwithstanding he will reply and profess that he never knew them Depart from me ye that work iniquity Mat. 7. 22 23. 4. Mr. Love did not could not at his death out-confidence the ordinary sort of Papists Priests and Jesuits amongst us that have from time to time drunk of the same cup with him as well as John Baptist or Paul and upon the same account in which particular John Baptist and Paul separate from him as we shall see presently and leave him in the company of those other 5. It is no very hard matter for a man strongly acted and assisted by a spirit of popularity a spirit with which Mr. Love hath been observed by many to have been one spirit or flesh rather for many years past to harden himself against the fear of Death to suppress smother and keep under those workings of Nature and Conscience which ordinarily discover themselves upon the approaches of Death in such persons who have no design to drive by the smothering or suppressing of them nor any collateral help or aid from any such spirit to enable them to the subduing and vanquishing of them 6. Mr. Love it is more then probable was not onely vehemently exhorted encouraged importuned but even solemnly by all the sacred Interests of high Presbytery conjured by his Clergy-companions to die like a valiant and resolute Champion of the Cause and not to bewray the least grudging of any fear or repentance for any thing he had acted upon the service thereof lest it should be said of Presbytery Her glory was stained and betrayed by the cowardice of her first-born Seventhly and lastly when I consider these passages in Mr. Love's Prayer Sect. 30. O blessed Jesus apply thy blood not onely for my Justification unto life but also for the comfort for the quieting of my Soul that so I might be in the joys of Heaven before c. And farther 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 When I say I seriously consider the express import of these passages they raise this apprehension in me and questionless upon the same terms they will raise the same in any other man that Mr. Love's confidence was not at least as yet I mean in the entrance and beginning of his Speech ascended so high in his heart and soul as his tongue reported it unto the people When Saul was dead David prayed no more for deliverance from him And if Christ as Mr. Love himself confesseth denied Prayer concerning his life why might he not deny it as concerning the quieting of his soul and the bearing up of his heart against the fear of Death And if this be granted evident it is that Mr Love did but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 theatrically act the part of a Confident man upon the Scaffold Several other things there are which much dis-satisfie me touching the legitimacy and well-groundedness of Mr Love 's rejoycing and confidence at his death which I shall not at present for brevities sake mention How matters stood between God and his Soul at his giving up of the Ghost is a secret too hard for my soul to enter into I had rather hope as Mr Ash said unto him that he made a Christian end nor do I desire to leave any touch or tincture of a contrary impression in any man My whole intent in what hath been said hitherto is to put that confidence to rebuke which he brought with him to the Scaffold not to prove that he died in unbelief Concerning that vain-glorious and light Conceit That his Death should turn to such an high Account of Honor unto him because John Baptist and Paul glorified God by the same death and because he read of Saints to be beheaded c. I shall speak little to it supposing that it weighs no more then the dust of the Ballance in the Judgement of any considering man Mr Love well knew that it is not poena but causa quae facit Martyrem not the punishment much less the kinde of punishment that makes a Martyr Which makes me a little to marvel with what face he could say as afterwards we shall hear him saying That whatsoever men may judge yet he died a Martyr Iohn Baptist was beheaded not simply for his Conscience or for the discharge of his Conscience but for the discharge of his

were still imputed to medling with State-matters Paul though he did but Preach Jesus Christ yet he must dye if the People might have their will under the pretence that he was a m●ver of Sedition Vpon a civil account my life is pretended to be taken away whereas indeed it is because I pursue my Covenant and will not prostitute my Principles and Conscience to the Ambition and Lusts of men SECT III. 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 adde a third I am changing this numerous multitude the presence of 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 Soldiers for a guard of Angels which will receive me and carry me into Abrahams bosom This Scaffold it 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 Pulpit he will bring me to Heaven These are the last words that I shall speak in this world and it may be this last Speech upon a Scaffold may bring God more glory then many Sermons in a Pulpit SECT IV. Before I lay down my Neck upon the Block I shall lay open my Case unto the people that hear me this day and in doing it I shall avoid all rancer all bitterness of Spirit animosity and Revenge God is my record whom I serve in the spirit I speak the truth and lye not I do not bring a revengeful heart unto the Scaffold this day before I came here upon my bended knees I have begged Mercy for them that denyed mercy to me and 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 Prosecutors who have pursued my blood That I might meet their souls in Heaven SECT V. I shall divide my Speech into three parts speak something concerning my Charge and a word concerning my Accusers and touching my Judges without any animosity at all and then something concerning my self for my own vindication and then a word of Exhortation and so I shall commit my soul to God Concerning my Charge it is black and hideous many things falsly suggested but nothing capital sufficiently proved by any one act that I am conscious to my self proved against me that I did The Charge was high and full but the Proof empty and low Though there were eight Witnesses that came in against me yet none of them did prove That ever I writ any Letter or directed any man to write a Letter into Scotland or into Forreign parts No man proved That I sent away any Letter that I received any Letter that I collected or gave or lent any Money to assist or promote the Scotish War This is all that was sworn against me That I was present when Letters were read that I made a motion for Money to give to Massey so that Beloved my presence at and concealment of Letters that were received and sent from Forreign parts There being a disturbance amongst the people he said I am amused I must break off things are true But the tumult being appeased he went on saying SECT VI. As concerning my Accusers I shall not say much I do forgive them and I pray God forgive them also yet what the Evangelist observes concerning Christs Accusers I may without vanity or falshood say of mine that they did not agree among themselves yea not onely contradicting one another but sometimes a Witness contradict himself And though their Testimony did condemn my person yet I have condemned their Testimony and truly there are many remarkable Circumstances that I might take notice of either in or before or since the Trial that might be worthy observation but I will not insist upon them onely in the general I will name none of them in the general some of them have sent to me to pray me to forgive them the wrong they have done me One of them hath written to me under his own hand to pray me to forgive him the wrong he hath done me And told me withal That that day that I should die a violent death his life would be no comfort to him because he was an Instrument in taking away mine Others of my witnesses they were some terrified before they would testifie some hired some fined before they would bear witness against me but I will forgive them SECT VII As concerning my Judges I will not judge them and yet I will not justifie them I believe I will say but this of them That what moved John Baptist what moved Herod to cut off John Baptists head moved them to cut off mine and that was for his Oaths sake John Baptist meaning Herod to avoid perjury he would commit murther whereas if John Baptists head had been upon his shoulders he would have been guilty of neither SECT VIII I have something in the second place to speak concerning my self and then I shall come briefly to a Conclusion Concerning my self I have gone through various reports There are many Sons of slander whose mouths are as open Sepulchres to bury my Name before my friends can bury my body My comfort is there will be a Resurrection of Names as well as Bodies at the last Day God will not onely wipe off tears from mine eyes this day but wipe off all blots and reproaches from my Name before many days be over And though my Body will soon rot under ground yet my hope is my Name will not rot above it I am not ignorant what Calumnies are cast upon me and more likely to be after I am dead and gone The very night before my intended Execution the last moneth there was an insulting Letter written to me to tell me that after I was dead there should be something published against me to my shame I hope you will have so much charity as not to believe Reproaches cast upon a dead man who will be silent in the grave and not able to speak a word in his own justification I am aspersed both as to my Practices and as to my Principles SECT IX I shall begin with the first There are five Aspersions as to my practices that are laid upon me First That I am a Lyar that I am an Extortioner that I am an Adulterer that I am a Murtherer and that I am a turbulent person crimes scandalous in any man but much more abominable in a Minister Now I hope you will believe a dying man who dare not look God in the face with a lye in his mouth I am accused of lying that what I denied before the High Court of Justice that afterwards I should confess or else was proved against me Now in the presence of God I tell you as I would confess