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A88593	Mr. Love's speech made on the scaffold on Tower-hill, August 22. 1651. With his proposals to the citizens of London; his desires touching religion, and his judgment concerning the Presbyterian-government; as also, his perfect prayer immediately before his head was severed from his body: printed by an exact copy taken in short-hand.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177; Thomason E641_8; ESTC R206711	16,354	16

have renounced my Covenant and debauched my Conscience and ventured my Soul there might have been more hopes of saving my life that I should not have come to this place but blessed be my God I have made the best choice I have chosen affliction rather then Sin and therefore welcome Scaffold and welcome Ax and welcome Death welcome Block welcome all because it will send me to my Fathers House I have great cause to magnifie Gods Grace that he hath stood by me during my imprisonment It hath been a time of no little temptation to me and yet blessed be his grace he hath strengthened and stood by me I magnifie his grace that though now I come to dye a violent death yet that death is not a terror to me through the blood of sprinkling the fear of Death is taken out of my heart God is not a terror to me therefore Death is not dreadful to me I bless my God I speak it without vanity I have formerly had more fear in the drawing of a tooth then now I have in the cutting off my Head I was for some years five or six under a spirit of bondage and did for Death exceedingly but then when the fear of Death was upon me Death was not neer me but now Death is neer me blessed be my Saviour he hath the sting of Death in his own sides and so makes the grave a bed of rest to me and makes Death the last Enemy to be a friend though he be a grim friend I bless God further that though I am to be cast out of the world I bless my God though men judg me to be cast out of the world yet that God hath not cast me out of the hearts and prayers of his people I had rather be cast out of the world then be cast out of the heart of any godly man Some think me is true not worthy to live and yet others Judg I do not deserve to dye but God will judg all men I will judg none I have now done I have no more to say but to desire the help of all your prayers that God would give me the continuance and supply of divine grace to carrying through this great work I am now to do That I who am to do a work I never did I may have a strength that I never had That I may put off this Body with as much quietness and comfort of mind as ever I put off my clothes to go to bed And now I am to commend my Soul to God and to receive my fatal blow I am comforted in this though men kill me they cannot damn me and though they thrust me out of the world yet they cannot shut me out of Heaven I am now going to my long home and you are going to your short homes but I will tell you I shall be at home before you I shall be at Heaven my Fathers House before you wil be at your own Houses Now I am going to the Heavenly Jerusalem to the innumerable 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 when 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 rrght hand the eare pleasures for evermore 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 laid up for me and not for me only but for all them that love the appearing of our L●rd 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 pleople 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 voice saying Mr. Loves Prayer MOst Glorious and eternal Majesty Thou art righteous and holy in all thou doest to the Sons of Men though thou hast suffered men to condemne thy servant thy servant will not condemne thee He justifieth thee though thou cuttest him off in the midst of his dayes 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 Booke of the Living Father my hour is come thy poor creature can say without vanity and falshood he hath desired to glorifie thee upon the 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 settled 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 faithfull City to thee that righteousnes might be amongst them that so peace and plenty may be within their wals and righteousness within their habitation Lord heal up 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 man 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 Thinke upon our Covenant-keeping Brethren in the Kingdome of Scotland keep them faithfull to thee and let not them that have invaded them over spread their whole Land Prevent the more shedding of 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 onely for my justification unto life but also for my comfort for the quieting of my soule that so I may be in the joyes 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 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 feare 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 dayes 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 houre have an intellectuall sight of the glorified body of his Saviour Lord Jesus receive my spirit and Lord Jesus stand by me thy dying servant who hath indeavoured 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 spotlesse and blamelesse before thee in love And all this we beg for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen Mr. Ash You make a Christian end I hope Mr. Love I I blesse God Then turning to M. Sheriffe Tichburn said I thanke you for this kindnesse Sir you have expressed a great deal of kindnesse to me Well I go from a block to the bosome 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 Jesus that hath kept me from the hurt of death and from the fear of death O blessed be God blessed be Cod. And taking his leave of the Ministers he said Love The Lord be with you all And taking leave of Sheriffe 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 believing I lie down with a world of comfort as if I were to lie downe in my bed My bed is but a short sleep and this death is a long sleep where I shall rest in Abrahams bosome and in the embraces of the Lord Jesus And then saying The Lord blesse you he laid himselfe down upon the Scaffold with his head over the block And when he stretched forth his hands the Executioner cut off his head at one blow FINIS

yet my Prayer is for them that in Act. 4. 29. Now Lord behold their threatnings grant that thy Servants may Preach thy word with all boldness Though I am but yong yet I will offer my yong experience to my grave Fathers and Brethren and that is this Now I am to dye I have abundant peace in my own Conscience that I have set my self against the Sins and Apostacies of this present Age It is true my faithfulnesse hath procured me ill will from men but it hath purchased me peace with God I have lived in peace and I shall dye in peace That which I have to beseech of the Ministers is this To beg them to keep up Church government Whatsoever God doth with the governments of the world turning Kingdoms upside down yet the Government of the Church will stand And of all Governments I dye with this perswasion That the Presbyterial Government makes most for Purity and Unity throughout the Churches of the Saints I would beg them therefore to keep up Church Government That they would not let their Elderships fall That they would take heed of too generall Admissions to the Lords-Supper That they be not too prodigal of the Blood of Christ by too generall Admissions of men to partake of the Supper that Sealing Ordinance And now I am speaking to them I shall speak a word of them and so I have done I have heard many clamors since I came to Prison as if that Plot which it is called that I am condemned for as if all the City Ministers they were engaged in this Design which as a dying man I tel you That all the Ministers that were present at the meeting and had a hand in that business for which I am to be put to death all those Ministers they are either in Prison or they are discovered already and therfore I do here upon my death free the Ministers of the City That those who are not yet in trouble nor discovered to the Committee of Examinations none of them had a hand in that business in which I was ingaged in which my conscience doth tell me I have not sinned I have now I have done immediately for I would fain be at my Fathers house but a word to speak to my own Congregation and I do return praises unto God and thanksgiving unto him for the love I have had from them I found them a solid and a judicious people and many of them Religious The Ministery of that learned man Mr. Anthony Burges did much good amongst them though I have cause to be humbled my weak Ministery did but little they afforded me a great deal of love and a liberal maintenance And this is all I desire of them That they would chuse a godly learned and an Orthodox Minister to succeed it would be a great comfort to me before I go to Heaven if I had this perswasion that a learned Orthodox godly man should fill that Pulpit And for encouragement to any godly Minister whose lot it shall be to succeed me I will say this to him That he will have as comfortable a livelihood and as loving a people as any people in London a few only excepted I had as much satisfaction amongst them as ever I had in any condition in all my life and should never have parted from them had not now death parted us to which I do submit with all Christian meekness and cheerfulness I am now drawing to an end of my Speech and to an end of my life together But before I do expire my last breath I shall desire to justifie God and to condemn my self Here I come to that which you call an untimely end and a shameful death but blessed be God it is my glory and it is my comfort I shall justifie God he is righteous because I have sinned he is righteous though he doth cut me off in the midst of my dayes and in the midst of my Ministry I cannot complain that Complaint in the Psalmist in the 44 Psalm Thou sellest thy people for nought and dost not increase thy wealth by their price My blood it shall not be spilt for nought I may do more good by my death then by my life and glorifie God more in dying upon a Scaffold then if I had dyed of a Disease upon my bed I bless my God I have not the least trouble upon my spirit but I dye with as much quietness of mind lie down I hope I shall upon the Block as if I were going to lie down upon my Bed to take my rest I see men hunger after my flesh and thirst after my blood which will hasten my happiness and their ruine and greaten their guilt For though I am a man of an obscure Family of mean Parentage so that my blood is not as the blood of Nobles yet I will say mine is a Christians blood a Ministers blood yea it is innocent blood also My blood my body my dead body it will be a morsel which I believe will hardly be digested and my blood it will be bad food for this Infant Common-wealth as Mr. Prideaux called it for this infant Common-wealth to suck on Mine is not Malignant blood though here I am brought as a grievous and notorious Offender Now Beloved I shal not only justifie God as I do without a Complement for he is very Just that my Prison was not my Hell that this Scaffold is not the bottomless pit I have deserved both I have deserved it I do not only justifie God but I desire this day to magnifie God to magnifie the riches of his grace that such a one as I born in an obscure Country in Wales of obscure Parents that God should look upon me and single me out from among all my kindred single me out to be an Object of his everlasting Love that when for the first fourteen years of my life I never heard a Sermon and yet in the fifteenth year of my life God through his grace did convert me and I here speak it without vanity what should a dying man be proud of for these twenty yea●s though I am accused of many scandalous evils I speak it to the praise and glory of my God for these twenty years God hath kept me I have not fallen into a scandalous sin I have laboured to keep a good Conscience from my youth up I magnifie his grace that he hath not only made me a Christian but made me a Minister judged me faithful and put me into the Ministry though the Office be troden upon and disgraced yet it is my glory that I dye a despised Minister I had rather be a Preacher in a Pulpit then a Prince upon a Throne I had rather be an instrument to bring Souls to Heaven then to have all the Nations to bring in tribute to me I am not only a Christian and a Preacher but what ever men judg me I am a Martyr too I speak it without vanity Would I