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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

general Apostacy Covenant breaking hath brought London low and I fear will bring it lower I tremble to think what evils are coming upon it This City it is the Receptacle of all Errors That as your Commodities have been vented and spread from hence into every corner of the Land so hath Heresies and Blasphemies had their first rise from this great and populous City and spread into all the Country SECT XVIII To the Inhabitants of this City I commend but these few Particulars First Let me beg you to love your painful and your godly Ministers if they be taken away you are like to have worse come in their rooms I know the Presbyterian Ministers are the great eye-sore who have formerly been counted the Chariots and the Horsmen of Israel But I will say to London as was said to Leyden That after Junius was taken away an Orthodox Minister Arminius that pestilent Heretick came in his room if your godly Ministers as there are ten already at one blow taken from you if they be taken away Arminians Anabaptists nay Jesuits are like to supply their rooms if God in mercy prevent not Secondly Submit your selves to Church-Government that would lay a curb and restraint upon your lusts it is a golden and an easie yoke to which if you do not submit God may lay an heavier an iron yoke upon your necks SECT XIX Thirdly Take heed of those Doctrines that come under the Notion of New Lights I have judged that those Doctrines you ought to suspect whether they be true when the brocher of them saith it is New for Truth it is as old as the Bible A remarkable passage I would suggest unto you in Deut. 32. it is said there They chose them new gods that were newly sprung up what were these new gods the next words tell you they were old devils they sacrificed to devils not to God Now their Sacrificing to the old Devil it was called a Sacrificing to deceive the People to new gods that were newly come up new gods they were but the old devils So I say of many of those things that go under the notion of New Lights it is but old darkness old Heresies raked out of the Dunghil which were buried in former ages in the Church with contempt and reproach many hundred years ago Again SECT XX. Fourthly Bewail your great loss that you have in the taking away of so many Ministers out of your City there are ten Ministers if I mistake not that are taken away and removed in one blow those who were burning and shining Lights in their several Candlesticks and bright Stars in their several Orbs though I am not worthy of the world therefore I am taken out of it yet as for my suffering Brethren who are now in Bonds and Banishment the world is not worthy of them Again in the next place take heed how you be forward in ingaging in a War with your godly Brethren in the Scotish Nation for my part I have opposed the Tyranny of a King but I never opposed the Title take heed what you do SECT XXI I have something in the next place to speak to the godly Ministery of this City were it not that I were a dying man I would not speak to such reverend and grave men I would as Elihu being but a yong man I would say Multitudes of years should teach wisdom and I would hold my tongue but the words of a dying man take whether they be discreet or no or so well ordered and managed or no for them I would first desire God to shew them mercy they that have begged for mercy for me at the day of my death I will beg but this of them That as they have not been ashamed of my Chain so they would now wax confident by my Bonds and by my Blood I know they are maligned and threatned yet my Prayer is for them that in Acts 4. 29. Now Lord behold their threatnings and 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 faithfulness 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 Vnity 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 general Admissions to the Lords-Supper That they be not too prodigal of the Blood of Christ by too general 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 SECT XXII 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 tell 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 therefore 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 SECT XXIII I have now I have done immediatly 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

needed to have been and which if not more repented of will lay it yet much lower But the Execution of Justice upon the late King the Non-admission of the present King of Scotland to the English Throne the Non-elevation of the Standard of High Presbytery the Non-opposing of all that Mr. Love opposed under the name and notion of Error and Heresie the Non-forbearance of sending an Army into Scotland which are sufficiently known to be meant by Mr. Love's Covenant-breaking these are so far from being any ways prognostique of evil towards the City that to men of free and sound judgements they are auspicious of a good and gracious presage What he means by his General Apostacy his Principles considered I confess I understand not He denies a possibility of Apostacy from any thing that is truly good or pleasing unto God and how Apostatizing from that which is otherwise as from Hypocrisie Formality Lukewarmness or the like should be of any ill abode or presage unto men opposeth my apprehensions True it is that the City as he saith is a great Receptacle of Error though of All I cannot say with him But first all that Mr. Love calleth Error is not therefore Error or proved to be Error because he so calleth it Doubtless Mr. Love was not greater then Paul and therefore knew but in part Now he that knows but in part is not competent to determine in whole Secondly A great part of those Errors with which the City is really polluted call Mr. Love and Ministers of his Sect if not Patres yet Patronos If he and others of his fellows did not broach them yet have they drawn them forth and given the City to drink Thirdly Another considerable part of them are the legitimate Issue of his and their spurious Doctrines and nothing else but the natural and express consequents of those unsound principles wherewith he seasoned many But I trust that the light of the Truth as it is in Jesus breaking forth dayly with greater brightness will scatter a great part at least of that mist of errours which yet much darkeneth the City though it be a Goshen compared with any other City that I know or have heard of throughout the world so that the errours yet resident in it shall not be the ruine of it ANIMAD upon Section 18 19 20. In these three Sections he commends himself in five particulars of spiritual advice unto the inhabitants of the City First He beggs of them to love their painful and godly Ministers but lest there should be error in personâ he presently informs them that he means Presbyterian If these were sometimes counted the Chariots and horsemen of Israel and are now the great eye-sore I fear it is because they are turn'd to be the Chariots and horse-men of Aram. But to whom are they the great eye-sore he speaks of I suppose he means to the State and men in power I confess there is ground enough for Master Love to suspect I am willing to think that he useth the word know in the lowest signification that the persons he speaks of are a great eye-sore unto these men and many others there being so much visible in many of them which cannot lightly but offend and grieve the eyes of all beholders whose eyes are not of the same constitution and temper with theirs But the spirit of High-Presbytery is exceeding querulous and effeminate If the State will not fulfill all their pleasure and gratifie them in toto in solido of all they demand or expect it presently casts them into fits of passion and discontent they are men neglected and despised Setting aside what hath been done to a few of the sons of this late Conspiracy against the State they have no ground at all from any measure they have received from the State to judge themselves any great eye-sore to it I know not what they would have more from the State then what they have unless it be All things under their feet When he tells them that ten of their godly Ministers are taken from them at one blow I know not how he will make up his account unless he reckons himself for more then the one half of them As for those who fled from them when none pursued them but their own guilt he cannot upon any competent account of truth number these amongst those that were taken from them by others But what blow was it by which so many were taken away from them as were taken Or who gave this blow When God cast off the ten tribes he imputes it to their Idolatry Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off Hos 8. So when He and the Jews were parted or separated the one from the other He imputeth this separation to their sins Your iniquities have separated between you and your God Esa 59. That which in punishments justly inflicted is afflicting or destroying is not to be charged upon the Judge but upon the offence and crime committed Upon this account the blow by which Mr. Love tells the Citizens of London that so many of their godly Ministers verbo sit venia were taken from them was not given either by the Parliament Councell of State or High Court of Justice but by their own ungodlinesse and treasonable practises against the State and Common-wealth these are they which have taken away so many of their Ministers at once These Ministers were no waies necessitated to practise that evill which they did but their Judges were necessitated in point of Conscience and by the command of God to inflict that punishment upon them which they now suffer for their evill therefore this punishment is not to be imputed to their Judges but to themselves and their own miscarriages 2. He exhorts the said persons of his present addresse the Inhabitants of the City That they would submit themselves to Church-Government which would lay a curb and restraint upon their lusts telling them that it is a golden and easie yoke c. The exhortation in generall is weighty and worthy by all men to be received Church-Government as the kind and constitution together with the administration of it may and ought to be is of a most Soveraign vertue and import for that great end he speaks of But that Church Government which Mr. Love intends at least as far as the Christian world hath had the triall of it hitherto in such administrations of it as it hath found amongst men hath given but a very slender testimony of any such heavenly vertue or vigor in it Hâc non succ●ssit aliâ aggrediundum est viâ 3. He admonisheth them to take heed of Doctrines that come under the n●tion of new lights If by new lights he means Doctrines brought into the world since the compleating of the Scriptures and which cannot by a legitimate and clear descent derive their pedigree from these the admonition is wholesome and grave but if by his new lights he means all such Doctrines or Tenets