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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

I have writ this to fill you more and more An Ax and a severer are all one you shall dye without sickness When you think of the present ignominy look on the future glory you shall be with God Christ Angels the souls of just men made perfect in a short time What a happiness is it to have grace in perfection to see God face to face to be freed from the being of sin Temptations of Devils society of wicked men You have faught a good fight you have finished your course you have kept the faith c. and you are going to receive your Crown a crown of glory that fadeth not away You are now going to that place where the voice of the oppressor shall never be heard You are going to your bed the best and safest you ever slept on The steps of the scaffold will be a Jacobs Ladder upon which you shall ascend to your loving Father The Scaffold will be as mount Nebo The Ax of the Executioner will cut off the head of sin and put an end to all misery Be sure Sir Not only the Angels of God but the God of the Angels himself will mightily strengthen you If your death and this kind of death were not most for the glory of God and the benefit of the Church I am confident God would have saved you from this hour I have writ thus not because you want advice but to testifie my love my dear love to you and to give you remembrance of me and mine before your departure hence Good Sir accept of it as my last farewell farewell farewell dear Friend God that hath bound up your soul in the bundle of life be your comfort joy hope peace confidence in life and death to all eternity Yea he will be your guide unto death He will be an Husband and head to your dearest Wife He will be a tender Father to your little Babes This is the confidence this shall be the prayer of SIR Your dear Friend Aug. 19. 1651. A brief Note from Mr. Jenkyn to Mr. Love My dear dear Heart THou art very near to my soul The Lord Jesus Christ smile with the pleasantest face upon thee that ever he did upon Sufferer I here send thee a Book that I have been much relieved by in my Imprisonment What are ten thousand Deaths where Christ is apprehended by faith These considerations where the leaf is turn'd down pag. 335. do sweetly support faith I am afraid almost to send these thoughts for fear over-many notions may disturb thee I judge these more profitable than speculative discourses of death The great God that hangs the Earth upon nothing but his Word bear up thy soul on his promises Oh sweet most sure sure sure oh remember sure promises as stable as the very Essence of God for the performances whereof God hath pawn'd his Being As I live c. My Heart I love thee I kiss thee I weep upon thee I rejoyce for thee I shall see thee in glory The Lord Jesus strengthen thee He will Mr. Jenkyn his Letter to Mr. Love My dear Heart BLame me not of this backwardness to cast in this mite I was hardly perswaded of the fitness thereof your greater danger is in the plenty of these tokens considering your own store Though your appetite be never so good it 's impossible you should concoct all the food dish'd up in Books Friends Papers and your own Meditations by and for you I shall desire to make up my Paper-defects by servent prayer and oh that I could pray so this once as if I were not to do it a second time My only counsell must be that which I know hath been your only care and will be your only comfort namely that you sleep in Jesus Thou shalt not sleep though that were much in the lap bosome and arms of Jesus but in this sleep he looks upon thee as a piece of himself even as a member a dear limb In dying thou shalt not dye They who are fallen asleep in Christ perish not 1 Cor. 15.18 20. Christ the first fruits a most sweet resemblance the happy hansell of the grave the first born from the dead the Head of the body did rise from the dead as such and not as a private person Coloss 1.18 So that our resurrection is even now in its cause The union 'twixt Christ and thee and this union is not only 'twixt Christ and thy soul but thy body also and therefore he is the first fruits of the dead cannot be broken off by death Christ should rebell against the will of his Father which were blasphemy to think if he should lose any thing which his Father hath given him as he should were it not to be raised up at the last day Christ is the very RESVRRECTION and he that believeth in him though dead yet shall live Oh how hath Christ persumed the grave and beautified the grisly face of Death Death is now a priviledge our best friend next to Christ and the truth is all our meanes and sorrows in this life are for want of that which we so much fear death as the child that cries for want of sleep and yet cannot endure to undress and go to bed My dear heart thou hast better cloaths to put on in the morning of the Resurrection This mortall shall put on immortality Thy garment of grace hath had many spots perhaps Ephes 5.27 Jude 24. vid. this day thou shalt take thy leave of mourning for them and therefore the Lord help thee to mourn more holily and meltingly than ever but the garment of glory shall not have one Lord is there a condition wherein I shall never sin more wherein I shall have as much grace as I can hold and wish and will desire wherein I shall no more wash the feet of Jesus Christ and now and then be suffered to give them a kiss but shall lye in his blessed bosome and be clasped in his glorious arms to eternity This is thy approaching happiness and every comfort by how much the nearer is the sweeter Now is thy salvation nearer than when thou first believedst Oh dear heart Now for a strong faith oh wrestle mightily with the great God for strength to overcome him cling about the promises precious promises not only for their fullness but infallibility adventure thy soul upon them The faithfullness of God is a foundation which bears the heaviest structure and the greatest load of sin and expectation Jesus Christ calls beseeches commands threatens and all to make thee believe The Lord increase thy faith thou art to go through a very great work but Christ hath laboured and thou art but to enter into his labours Death is but a nominall enemy when Christ hath disarmed it there is more terror in the pomp of it as Seneca said the Scaffold the Axe Spectators Reports than in the thing it self Oh how may a Christian insult over it Oh Death where is thy Sting

be the Elias and first to ascend the fiery chariot May I without presumption be the Elisha and make two or three bold requests unto you and first let me beg your prayers for a double portion of your Spirit Secondly let me see you if possible before you ascend though it be but through the lattess on your Nuptial morning Thirdly let fall your mantle that I may by means of it be inabled to divide Jordan yea the Red-sea if God call me through it and not sink like an Egyptian in the mighty waters Psal 32.6 Fourthly if there be any remembrance of things below in heaven Luk. 16. v. 24 25 28 will you when you are in the blessed Heaven think of your poor friend and the rest of your fellow Souldiers left behind and labouring in the storme till Christ come to them as he doth to you Surely the Church triumphant doth not forget the Church militant and prayer is no paradox in heaven Rev. 6. v. 9 10. till the body of Christ be perfected If justice makes them pray against enemies why should not charity draw out supplications for their friends Surely there is a communion of Saints between the Church militant and triumphant we may bless God for them and cannot they pray for us The Martyrs would not pray to dead Saints but some of them desired living Saints to pray for them both on earth and in heaven and I think therein they were not superstitious Sweet Sir I know to whom I speak and am assured that Love will not be puffed up with that which would soon burst a bladder of pride None higher in Gods eyes than those who are lowest in their own I see your time is short and therefore though my affection be like Jordan at the time of harvest I must set bounds and banks to my words lest I divert and trouble you in your passage I doubt not but you remember that you must pass through the Jordan to the fiery Chariot Jordan was not more effectual to cleanse Naaman's Leprosie than the River of repentant tears is to purge the leprosie of sin Psal 119. v. 136. next after the immense ocean of the bloud of Christ It 's not Abanah and Parphar will wash away the Leprosie but Jordan nor will every tear wash away sin but penitent tears You have but little time to mourn Christ stands by with his towel and handkerchief Psal 56.8 Rev. 7 last 21.4 Isa 25.8 Spiritual sorrow and joy are inseparable companions in this life and the Dove-like spirit of comfort loves these streams Cant. 3.12 Matth. 3.16 Every true Christian hath this Baptismus flaminis joyned with Baptism flaminis And now God honours you with Baptis Sanguinis superadded The cup of tears and cup of comfort may well go together and happy he who can mingle this drink with weeping Psal 102.9 such need not fear to pledge Christ in his cup of bloud and undoubtedly shall sit at Christs right hand in his Kingdom Matth. 20. ver 22 23. though not in the sense of the two ambitious Brethren If we could weep or repent for any thing in heaven sure it would be because we wept and repented no more nor no better on earth The Lord enable you and us all to do much work in a little time If I see you no more I must be forced here to take my long leave yet why say I so it may prove but a short leave since in likelyhood as things stand few weeks yea dayes may bring me to a sight of your blessed soul in the arms of Christ and surely the communion of Saints in heaven is cumulative to their essential happiness The Lord enable me to imitate your graces and then I shall not doubt to inherit your happiness which is only God the highest end and the chiefest good The Lord be nearer to you than your danger and support you in the most needfull hour and when men have done their worst receive your soul to his mercy Act. 7. v. 55 56 59. Luk 2.29 30. 2 Tim. v. 7 8. So prays Your poor unworthy Friend and Companion in the Kingdom and tribulation of Jesus Christ July 12. 1651. Mr. Robinson's Letter to Mr. Love Dear Friend THe loss which the Church of God will sustain by your death is a very great trouble to me and I doubt not but a far greater to others whose hearts God hath made more sensible to feel his hand This stroke I am confident will be your happiness but a great misery a sad punishment to many when God hath a purpose to punish many at once he useth to take this course The extinguishing such a star I do not flatter you God knows cannot but greatly afflict the whole world I wish heartily God would grant me the favour to see you before your wedding day for I dare not call it a dying day I hope I shall be in your thoughts when you are at the throne of Grace Good Sir heap up as many prayers as you can for the poor Church of God before you leave us it shall be the best legacy you can bequeath what you shall sow some will live to reap and you will not be unrewarded Jesus Christ had his thoughts on the Church even to his dying hour good Sir imitate your Master I need not say any thing to strengthen you against the fear of your approaching day I doubt not but you have often overcome that fear through Jesus Christ Profectio est quam putas mortem 'T is but the taking of a journey and though the way be deep yet it s but short God brings you the nearest way A shorter cut never had any to rest I know you have been often upon Mount Nebo where you have seen Canaan whither you are going The Mysticall head cannot be cut off you have finished your testimony and fear not to receive your recompence Christ hath transformed this black Messenger to you into an Angel of Light How soon others may follow you is known only to God if we stay longer 't is but to row in a stormy Sea Moses was very willing to dye God said Go up and dye and he went up and died Let not the care of your Relations afflict you The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof Leave your fatherless children God will provide for them Let your widdow trust in God Your dear yoke-fellow is a partaker of the same grace with you how rich are they that are heirs to the promises You can commend your spirit into Gods hands much more your wife and children Remember that promise I will be thy God and the God of thy seed Sir it is a richer portion than the Mines of India You were but a cistern to them the fountain lives and will live when you are dead God can provide without you you cannot without God Good Sir Chear up I hear how full of joy you are blessed be God all these are but little drops to the ocean

Love My heavenly Dear I Call thee so because God hath put heaven in thee before he hath taken thee to heaven Thou now beholdest God Christ and Glory as in a glass but to morrow heaven gates will be opened and thou shalt be in the full enjoyment of all those glories which eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither can the heart of man understand God hath now swallowed up thy heart in the thoughts of heaven but ere long thou shalt be swallowed up in the enjoyment of heaven And no marvel there should be such quietness and calmness in thy spirit whilest thou art sailing in this tempestuous Sea because thou perceivest by the eye of saith a haven of rest where thou shalt be richly laden with all the glories of heaven O lift up thy heart with joy when thou layest thy dear head on the block in the thought of this that thou art laying thy head to rest in thy fathers bosome which when thou dost awake shall be crowned not with an earthly fading crown but with an heavenly eternal crown of glory And be not discouraged when thou shalt see a guard of souldiers triumphing with their trumpets about thee but lift up thy head and thou shalt behold God with a guard of his holy Angels triumphing to receive thee to glory Be not dismayed at the scofs and reproaches that thou maist meet with in thy short way to heaven for be assured God will not only glorifie thy body and soul in heaven but he will also make the memory of thee to be glorious on the earth O let not one troubled thought for thy wife and babes arise within thee thy God will be our God and our portion he will be a husband to thy widdow and a father to thy children the grace of thy God will be so sufficient for us Now my Dear I desire willingly and chearfully to resign my right in thee to thy Father and my Father who hath the greatest interest in thee And confident I am though men have separated us for a time yet our God will ere long bring us together again where we shall eternally enjoy one another never to part more O let me hear how God bears up thy heart and let me taste of those comforts that support thee that they may be as pillars of marble to bear up my sinking spirit I can write no more Farewel farewel my Dear till we meet there where we shall never bid farewell more till which time I leave thee in the bosome of a loving tender hearted Father and so I rest Till I shall for ever rest in Heaven MARY LOVE August 21. 1651. Master Love to his Wife when he should have first suffered My dearest Beloved I Am now going to my long home yet I must write thee a word before I go hence and shall be seen no more It is to beg thee to be comforted in my gain and not to be troubled in thy loss Labour to suppress thy inward fears now thou art under outward sorrows as thy outward suffering● abound let thy consolations in Christ abound also I know thou art a woman of a sorrowfull spirit My time is short I have but a few words of counsel to give thee and then I shall leave thee to God who careth for thee and thine 1. Whil●s thou art under desertions labour rather to strengthen and clear up thy evidences for heaven than question them 2. Remember a faith of adherence or reliance on the Lord Jesus bring thee to heaven though thou want the faith of Evidence or Assurance 3. Labour to find that and more also in God which thou hast lost in the creature 4. Spend not thy days in heaviness for my death if there were knowledg of things below or sorrow in heaven I should grieve to think my beloved should mourn on earth 5. Lye under a soul-searching Ministry I know thou art not a spungy hearer to suck in foul water as well as fair God hath given thee a good understanding to be able to discern things that differ as the mouth tasts meat thy ear tryeth words 6. Be conversant in Christian meetings and much in the exercises of the duties of mortification in fasting and prayers yet have respect to the weakness of thy body and thy present condition 7. Have a care of thy self and babes God will take care for thee and them I can write no more farewell my Dear farewel farewel These are the last words written by Thy dying yet comforted Husband CHRISTOPHER LOVE From the Tower July 15. 1651. MY Dear I beg thee to be satisfied my heart is greatly comforted in God I can quietly submit to the good pleasure of his will and I hope thou dost so also I am delivered by the determinate counsel of God the will of the Lord be done Read for thy comfort when I am dead and gone Jer. 49.11 and the beginning of the 12. Isa 54. vers 5 6 7 8. Psalm 146. ver 9.2 Cor. 4. ver 17 18. Heb. 12. ver 6 7. Another of Master Loves to his Wife More dear to me than ever IT adds to my rejoycing that I have so good and gracious a wife to part with for the Lord Jesus In thy grief I have been grieved but in thy joy I have been comforted Surely nature could never help thee to bear so heavy a stroke with so much silence and submission to the hand of God! O dearest every line thou writest gladdeth my heart I dare not think that there is such a creature as Mary Love in the world for Kit and Mall I can think of them without trouble leaving them to so good a God and so good a Mother Be comforted concerning thy Husband who may more honour God in his death than in his life the will of the Lord be done he is fully satisfied with the hand of God Though there be but little between him and death he knows there is but little between him and heaven and that ravisheth his heart The Lord bless and requite thee for thy wise and good counsel thou hast prevented me the very things I thought to have written to thee thou hast written to me I have had more comfort from thy gracious letter than from all the counsel I have had from any else in the world well be assured we shall meet in heaven I rest till I rest in heaven Thy dying but comforted Friend CHRISTOPHER LOVE From the Tower the Lords Day Another of Master Loves to his Wife My dearest delight on Earth I Was fast asleep when thy Note came I bless God I break not an hours sleep for all my sufferings I know they work for me a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory I slept this night from ten at night till seven in the morning and never waked My Dear I am so comforted in the gracious supports God gives thee that my burdens are the lighter on my shoulders because they are not so heavy on thine or if they