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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

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

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

as free in pardoning as I am in confessing that as by what I have done I am an object of your just displeasure so by what I have confessed I may become an object of your free grace and favor I fully resolving never to ingage again in a business of the like nature if through your clemency you pass by these sundry and great Offences upon my free Confession and full resolution to leave them you will resemble God himself who hath said He that confesseth and forsakes his sins shall finde mercy Having thus laid open my heart in this matter in an ingenuous acknowledgement I humbly crave leave to express my self in a few Particulars for further satisfaction to the Parliament 1. Although I was present at several meetings in my House to hear Letters read yet I used not to be at meetings elsewhere about businesses of this nature it seems there were meetings in other places many Moneths before I knew any thing 2. There are no persons who used these meetings so far as I remember and as I am informed but they are already discovered and made known 3. There is no Intelligence or Correspondencies now held that I know of with any in or of the Scotish Nation or any imployed by them 4. I am not privy to or acquainted with any Plots or Designs now carrying on for raising intestine Insurrections at home or joyning with Forreign Invasions from abroad 5. There was never any money raised that I know of for any of the Scotish Nation to carry on their War yea when Letters were read wherein there were motions to that purpose I utterly refused to do any thing therein 6. I do retain as vehement a Detestation of Malignancy whether in England or in Scotland as ever I did and shall in my Place and Calling oppose such a Design and interest with as much zeal and faithfulness as ever 7. Lastly I do faithfully promise never to ingage in a business of the like nature as this wherein I have been insnared nor shall I Plot Contrive or Design the subversion of this present Government but shall under the same lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty I have no more to say but to make this humble and last request That this my large Confession may not be taken as an Aggravation of my fault but as a Demonstration of my Ingenuity I acknowledge by your Justice you might in one day leave a Flock without a Shepherd a Wife without a Husband Children without a Father and a Body without a Soul But my Hope and Prayer is That your Mercy will triumph over Justice That I shall hear that joyful sound That my life shall see the Light That I shall be rescued from going down to the Grave To which if God shall incline your hearts I shall devote the remainder of my days to the glory of God and good of his people The peace and safety of this Commonwealth against all the Malignant Enemies and Opposers thereof I have but one Request more to make to this Honorable House That if some Passages about these Meetings and Transactions have passed my Observation or slipt my Memory as happily through tract of time some things have That you would not impute it to my Wilfulness but to my Forgetfulness of things done so long ago From the 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. Mr. Love being brought upon the Scaffold by the Sheriffs Mr. Sheriff Titchburn shewed him the Warrant directed to the Sheriffs of London for his Execution telling him that he took no pleasure in this Work but it was a Duty laid upon him To which Mr. Love replyed I believe it Sir Sheriff Titchburn I have done my duty for you Mr. Love The Lord bless you Lieutenant of the Tower The Lord strengthen you in this hour of your Temptation Mr. Love Sir I am I bless God my heart is in heaven I am well Sheriff Titchburn I desire you to consider we have the other to execute afterwards and six a clock is our Hour but we shall give you as much time as we can Mr. Love I shall be the briefer Then putting off his Hat two several times to the people he spake as followeth SECTION I. BEloved Christians I am made this day a Spectacle unto God Angels and Men and among men 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 Doctor Tailor the Martyr when he was going to Execution that there were but two Styles 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 sayling towards the Ocean of Eternity through a rough Passage to my Haven of Rest through a Red-sea to the Promised Land Me thinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses Go up to Mount Nebo and die there so go thou up to Tower-hill and die there Isaac said of himself that he was old and yet he knew not the day of his death but I cannot say thus I am yong and yet I know the day of my death and I know the kinde of my death also and the place of my death also it is such a kinde of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me John the Baptist and Paul the Apostle they were both beheaded ye have mention of the one in Scripture Story and of the other in Ecclesiastical History And I read in the 20th of the Revelation and the 4th The Saints were beheaded for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus SECTION II. But herein is the disadvantage which I am in in the thoughts of many who judge that I suffer not for the Word or for 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 when in truth it is their Religion and Conscience they are persecuted for The Rulers of Israel they would put Jeremiah to death upon a Civil account though indeed it was onely the truth of his Prophesie made the Rulers angry with him yet upon a Civil account they did pretend he must dye because he fell away to the Caldeans and would have brought in Forreign Forces to Invade them The same thing is laid to my charge of which I am as innocent as Jeremiah was I finde other instances in the Scripture wherein men the cause of their Sufferings

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

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

which have not received countenance or approbation from the generality of Ministers of a later Edition and since the times of Luthers and Calvins Reformations his advice is indeed artificially calculated for the Meridian of high Presbytery but very disserviceable to the advancement and growth of Christianity 4. He exhorteth them to bewaile their great losse in the taking away of so many Ministers out of their City and then recounting the number of them finds them if he mistakes not ten under the covert of such an exception or reserve he might as truly have said they had been twenty He speaks of some as being in banishment Those of them in this condition were adjudged thither by no other Judges then their own Consciences When the City of refuge is sought unto it is a sign that there is bloud shed and that there is some avenger of bloud that follows the chase The Ministers he speaks of he doth the rather lift up unto heaven with those glorious Elogiums he bestows on them that so he may cast those so much the deeper into hell in the peoples thoughts whom he would have lookt upon as the Authors of their taking away But the Malefactour as hath been said not the Judge is the Author of his sufferings If they were lights they were far more burning then shining but with an un-hallowed fire if Starres starres they were of a very Malignant influence upon the State where they liv'd and in their Conjunction made a very dangerous and fiery constellation Those of whom as the Scripture testifieth the world was not worthy were a generation of men of another spirit holy humble and harmlesse were content to suffer from the world to do the world service Mr. Love's men are a generation that must have the world bow down unto them and lick the dust at their feet to strengthen their hand to do them service neglect from men is as the shadow of death unto them 5. And lastly He gives them a brief Item to take heed of being forward to ingage in a war against their godly Brethren in Scotland If these godly Brethren in Scotland had not been forward to ingage in a war against them the Counsell had been Christian and prudent But inasmuch as these godly Brethren first ingaged in a war against their godly Brethren here as hath been formerly shewed it is no point of Christianity or prudence to demurre upon a course of defence or of prevention of the mischiefe ANIMAD upon Sect. 21. There is a red threed of revenge against the Parliament and State struck quite thorough this fare-well piece of Mr. Loves to the world from the very beginning to the end of it visible enough and indeed too much in every Section which creates a sad jealousie with me left his fi●●s Architectonicus his predominant end in his last addresse on earth was to have the men in present Power under the hardest and most hatefull ●●●●ment with the people that he could imagine or devise In many passages he hales in by head and shoulders such things which a man cannot tell how or why they should come there but only to asp●rse the State and to envenom the spirits of the people against them In these his Applications to the godly Ministery as he terms it of the City he doth his best to make them believe for he affirms that he knoweth it that they are maligned and threatned and this the people must conceive to be by the State yea and the cause and ground hereof must be supposed to be for setting themselves against the sins and Apostacies of the times for his faithfulness wherein he himself had procured ill will from men Poor man Doth he call his sin against God his high crimes and offences against the Parliament in his late and great miscarriages for which himself confesseth in his last Petition to the Parliament as was formerly shewed that the Sentence of death was justly passed on him by the High-Court of Justice doth he I say call sin against God high crimes great miscarriages his faithfulness in setting himself against the sins and Apostacies of this present age I confess if these were his faithfulness in that kind he speaks of it was his faithfulness that procured him the ill-will of men If such notions and conceits as these were the foundation of that abundant peace of his Conscience and which he saith he hath with God and with which he dieth I fear he may be too truly compared to the foolish builder who neglected the rock and built his house upon the sand which soon after fell and great was the fall thereof But to perswade the godly Ministers of his present address together with the people the more effectually that they were certainly maligned and threatned he will needs upon this account lift up a prayer for them in the words of those Christians Act. 4. 29. And now Lord behold their threatnings and grant that thy servants may preach the word with all boldness But is not this an horrid prophanation of the sacred Ordinance of Prayer and of him that hath appointed it to represent persons unto God as guilty of such crimes whereof he knows them to be innocent especially when he also that prayeth hath no tolerable ground to judge them such as they are represented by him unto God in his Prayer What ground or colour of ground had Master Love to accuse the Parliament or State before God of threatning the godly Ministers of the City for preaching the Word of God What Minister did they ever threaten upon any such account as this Possibly such Ministers s who in their preachings have turn'd the good Word of God and Gospel of Jesus Christ into fire-brands of Sedition into scurrilous and bitter invectives against those whom God hath set in Authority over them who in stead of lifting up their voices like Trumpets to make the people to know their abominations have lift them like Trumpets to provoke and animate them to commit abominations possibly I say such Ministers as these they have discountenanced in such ways of impiety and prophanation of the Word of God as these His perswasion that the Presbyterial Government makes most for purity and for unity throughout the Churches of the Saints the experience which the world hath had of this Government in those places or Churches where it hath had its throne doth not much countenance or confirm but I shall not here counter-argue it Whereas he beggs of the Ministers that they would keep up Church-Government and had onely added and not intermeddle with the Civil-Government of the State his advice had been both Christian and seasonable ANIMAD upon Section 22. I will not say that Master Love here freeth all the Ministers in the City those onely excepted who are already discovered from having a hand in his business he dislikes it seems the word Plot in such a sense wherein not long since he freed himself from whatsoever was not or could