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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49238	Love's name lives, or, A publication of divers petitions presented by Mistris Love to the Parliament, in behalf of her husband with severall letters that interchangeably pass'd between them a little before his death : as also, one letter written to Master Love by Mr. Jaquel, one of the witnesses against him : together with seven severall letters and notes sent to him, from Dr. Drake, Mr. Jenkyn Mr. Case, and Mr. Robinson, his then fellow-sufferers : all published for publick good.	Love, Mary, 17th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing L3142; ESTC R24435	21,561	16

to be forgotten day and Sentence on the fifth of July against my dear friend Truly could not I appeal to God who knoweth all things what the intention of my heart was thinking I might rather do you good than hurt knowing one had gone before me and fearing he had much wronged you made me willing to testifie what I did being told and informed it would do you good and not hurt being but Misprision at the most I say were it not for the testification in mine own conscience I were not able to bear up my spirit but should I fear even sink under the burden But when I consider to whom I now write who I know is full of charity and doth believe what I say and will forgive what wrong I have done him and I hope will pray for me to your God and my God to your Father and my Father that he will not lay this to my charge for you may charge me to be as one of those Paul chargeth in 2 Tim. 4.16 And deer Sir If the Lord will be pleased to let me see your face once more that I may open my self to you I hope I shall stand right in your affections Some promises I have met withall in the word that do methinks add wings to my faith that God will not suffer you to fall by the hands of violence as in Psal 79. Psal 91. Psal 94. Psal 3. Isa 41.10 Isa 66.5 and many others that I know you are better acquainted with than I am and can beat them out and lay them by you as a glass of cordiall water for fainting times But dear Sir let me earnestly beg of you that you will use what means you can for your own preservation and go as far as you can in your Petition to them in whose power your life is for many reasons As first Because if you shall fall O! how would the enemies rejoyce Malignants and others would make songs at your death and say Where is all his Fastings and Prayers His God will not help him Oh Sir it would be a day of reproach and blasphemy And secondly Consider how would it sadden the hearts of Gods people and make them wring their hands if they should miss the fruit of their prayers in your deliverance which I am confident have been poured out in an extraordinary way for you And thirdly Consider the service you may yet do in the Church of Christ How many souls may God make you instrumentall to bring home to Christ And what service may yet this poor bleeding Nation have by your life And fourthly I need not remember you of your dear and precious Consort who I am confident is dear in the heart of God and also to you and her life even bound up in yours and her condition being as it is And then I humbly beg you will consider my condition for surely in that day I should hear of your life being violently taken away mine would be but little comfort to me being instrumentall in taking yours away although the Lords knows not intentionally but accidentally Therefore for these reasons I humbly beg of you again and again that you will do what you dare and go as far as you can for your preservation and the Lord will make you instrumentall for his glory if not here yet in some other place and methinks where ever the Lord cast you I could willingly make that promise and perform it that Ruth made to Naomi and so I am confident could my dear wife whose heart I know bleeds for you and her eyes run down with tears to God for you Good Sir in your addresses remember me to God that I may learn to lean upon him more firmly and rely upon the Rock of Ages and not upon broken reeds And I hope through the strength of Christ and the supply of your prayers I shall be better fortified for the time to come as Peter was after his fall I would fain be remembred to my good friend Dr Dr. I hope I have got better armour of proof than I had before but I hope there will be no need of shewing it about him For poor Po. he hath wronged himself more than any man can for I hear he hath sent more Papers of his confession since he was there Good Sir I have many things more to say but will not presume to be more burdensome to you at this time Will the Lord let me see your face once more here I hope he will However it will not be long before we shall enjoy one another in that place where violent hands shall not touch us and then eternity shall be little enough to praise and magnifie the Lord for his riches of mercy he shews to us The Lord stand by you The Lord preserve you and put his everlasting arms under you and deliver you Which shall be the earnest groans and sighs of him who is he hopes a dear yet a most unworthy Friend not worthy to be look'd upon by you Dr. Drake's Letter to Mr. Love Dear and precious friend I Cannot but congratulate your liberty and the singular honour God hath laid upon you The Captain of our salvation is wise and knows whom to call out for his Champion He hath pleased to call you to the forelorn-hope we are leading up the van our brethren in the black bill are like to bring up the body and for our rear blessed be God we have armies of prayers and tears yea through mercy we may say Our righteousness goes before us and the glory of the Lord shall be our reward Isa 58.8 Well might we fear had we not a good God a good Cause and a good Conscience but where God justifies who shall condemn Certainly that God who hath done us so much good by a prison blessed be his name can do us much more good by our tryall He bids us not fear them who at worst can but kill the body and why should we be afraid of man that shall dye c. and forget the Lord our Maker yea our Redeemer It s too much honour God laies upon us to suffer any thing for his Name and Covenants sake that hereby we are so indeared in the hearts of his Faithfull people and have been occasions to blow up the spirit of prayer that was almost exstinct Will not God incline his ear when he hath prepared the heart Did he ever set his children a begging but he had a boon for them I need not stir up your Christian resolution but desire rather to light my candle at your Lamp Yet when lately I looked upon Rev. 2 3. I espied no less than seven rare Cordials to persons in our condition Rev. 2. v. 7 10 17 27. c. 3. v. 5 12 21. 1. A tree of life 2. Freedome from hurt by the second death 3. The hidden Manna and white stone 4. The morning star and weilding the rod of iron 5. The white garments the Book of life and owning us

State for that your poor Petitioners Friends are willing to give all sufficient security that her Husband shall live peaceably and quietly for the time to come and never act any thing to the prejudice of this Common-wealth and present Government Now the God of heaven bow your hearts to shew mercy And your Petitioner shall pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the Wife of Christopher Love Condemned to dye Sheweth THat whereas your distressed hand-maid hath in all humility in the exceeding great bitterness of her spirit poured out her very soul to this Honourable House for the life of her condemned Husband which Petition was mercifully received and read in Parliament as your Petitioner is informed For which high favour she desireth to bless God and be thankfull to your Honours And although she hath great cause to be very sensible of your High displeasure against her Husband for which she is heartily sorry Nevertheless she hoping that your bowels yearn towards her in this her sad condition adventures once more to make her humble supplication and doth pray That if your poor Petitioners Husband hath provoked you so far as to render him utterly uncapable of your full pardon yet you would graciously be pleased to let your hand-maid find so much favour in your eyes as that you will say of your Petitioners dear Husband as Solomon said of Abiathar though thou art worthy of death we will not at this Time put thee to death Oh pardon your perplexed hand-maid if she again beseech you by the wombs that bare you and the brests that gave you suck in the bowels of the Lord Jesus Christ reprieve him for a time till she may recover her strength before he depart hence and be seen no more lest at one terrible stroke in his execution the lives of him her and the tender babe in her womb be cut off and two poor innocent Orphans be left behind to begin and end their dayes in misery And though he may not be thought worthy to breath in English aire which God forbid yet give him Oh give him leave to sigh out his sorrows under your displeasure in the utmost parts of the Earth wheresoever you shall think fit to banish him Which although it be a very great punishment in it self yet your hand-maid and her dying Husband shall acknowledg even this to be a great mercy and shall thankfully receive it at your hands And shall pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the Wife of Christopher Love Sheweth THat your poor Petitioner hath great cause to say blessed be God and blessed be you for your mercifull Vote the 15th of July a day never to be forgotten in adding a moneth to the life of her dear Husband which hath opened a door of hope to her in the midst of the valley of Achor and made her glad though she be a woman of a sorrowfull spirit yet your distressed hand-maid is overwhelmed with grief and anguish of soul and cannot be comforted when she remembers the dolefull day the 15th of August so near approaching her heart doth almost dye within her and she is as one giving up the ghost before she is delivered of the fruit of her womb Wherefore your greatly distressed hand-maid doth again pour out her soul with renewed and importunate requests beseeching your Honours to commiserate her deplorable condition by putting on bowels of pity and compassion towards her dear and condemned Husband that she may not grapple with the intollerable pains of Travell and the unsupportable thoughts of her Husbands death in one day Oh that the life of your hand-maid and her babe might be a ransome for the life of her condemned Husband she had rather chuse out of love to dye for him than for sorrow of heart to dye with him Now the good Lord incline your hearts to give him his life for a prey wheresoever it shall please your Honours to cast him And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the distressed Wife of Christopher Love Humbly sheweth THat your sad and sorrowfull Petitioner in the multitude of her fears wherewith her spirit is overwhelmed within her After sundry applications and grievous disappointments more bitter than death cannot cease to follow your Honours with strong cries and supplications as the importunate Cannanitish woman did the Lord Christ And O that now at last you would suffer your selves to be intreated and let your bowels yearn within you that so root and branch may not be cut off in one day The great God hears the cries of Ravens O that that God would open your hearts to hear the cries and heart-breaking grones of the Mother with the tender Babes that cannot keep silence whilest there is any hope Your desolate Hand-maid waiteth with all humility and earnest expectation at your doors beseeching you not to forget to shew mercy to your poor Petitioner and her tender Babes Oh make not your Hand-maid a widow and her children fatherless but be graciously pleased to prevent this dreadfull blow which your Petitioner trembleth to think upon and earnestly beseeches you to change the sentence of death into a sentence of banishment and whilest you are propagating the Gospel in New England let her dying husband as a Prophet from the dead be sent to endeavour the conversion of the poor Indians that so many souls may bless God in your behalf and she shall receive it from your hands as a signall favour And your Petitioner shall pray c. MARY LOVE Mr. Jaquel his Letter to Mr. Love My dear friend and beloved in the Lord MY bowels are troubled within me I am pained I am pained even at the very heart The Lord knows I want words to express the thoughts of my heart to you to you I say right Christian Friend and true Souldier of Jesus Christ I was thinking to have been silent being even ashamed to send you a line written by that hand which is very much slackened and taken off from the plough which I thought not many weeks agoe had been very fast setled Give me leave to breath forth my heart to you in such rude words and language as I can utter and I pray you receive them and spell out my heart towards you which at this time is so full that I know not how to empty it but in tears before the Lord for you night and day And oh that the remembrance of the seventh and one and twentieth of June might often come into my thoughts to keep my heart humble for my folly in taking my own and carnall friends counsell and not the counsell of those that are right godly which as I now perceive did help to bring forth that sad and never