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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

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

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

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