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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

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 Mr. Love being brought upon the Scaffold by the Sheriffe 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 reply'd I believe it Sir Sh Titchburn I have done my duty for you M. Love The Lord bless you Lieu of the Tower The Lord shrengthen you in this hour of your Temptation M. Love Sir I am I bless God my heart is in heaven I am well Sh. Titchburn I desire you to consider we have the other to execute afterwards and 6 a clock is our hour but we shall give you as much time as we can M. Love I shall be the briefer Then putting off his hat two several times to the people he spake as followeth BEloved Christians I am this day made 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 terrour 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 Dr Taylor the Martyr when he was going to Execution That there were but two stales 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 young and yet I know the day of my death and I know the kind of my death also and the place of my death also it is such a kind 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 20. of the Revelation and the 4. The Saints were beheaded for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus 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 die 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 find other instances in the Scripture wherein the main causes of their sufferings were still imputed to medling with State-matters Paul though he did but preach Jesus Christ yet he must die if the people might have their will under the pretence that he was a mover of Sedition Upon a civil account my life is pretended to be taken away whereas indeed it is because I pursue my Covenant and will not prostitute my Principles and Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men Beloved I am this day to make a dou●le exchange I am changing a Pulpit for a Scaffold and a Scaffold for a Throne and I might add a third I am changing this numerous multitude the presence of this numerous multitude upon Tower-Hill for the innumerable company of Angels in the holy Hill of Zion and I am changing a guard of Soldiers for a guard of Angels which will receive me and carry me into Abrahams bosom This Scaffold is the best Pulpit I ever preached in for in the Church-Pulpit God through his Grace made me an Instrument to bring others to heaven but in this Pulpit he will bring me to heaven These are the last words that I shall speak in this world and it may be this last Speech upon a Scaffold may bring God more glory then many Sermons in a Pulpit Before I lay down my neck upon the block I shall lay open my Case unto the people that hear me this day and in doing it I shall avoid all rancour all bitternesse of Spirit animosity and revenge God is my record whom I serve in the spirit I speak the truth and lie not I do not bring a revengeful heart unto the Scaffold this day before I came here upon my bended knees I have beg'd Mercy for them that denied mercy to me and I have prayed God to forgive them who would not forgive me I have forgiven from my heart the worst Enemy I have in all the world and this is the worst that I wish to my Accusers and Prosecutors who have pursued my blod that I might met their souls in heaven I shall divide my speech into three parts speak something concerning my Charge and a word concerning my Accusers and touching my Judges without any animosity at all and then something concerning myself for my own vindication and then a word of Exhortation and so I shall commit my soul to God Concerning my Charge it is black and hideous many things falsly suggested but nothing capital sufficiently proved by any one act that I am consc●ous to my self proved against me that I did The charg was h●gh and full but the Proof empty and low though there were 8 Witnesses that came in against me yet none of them did prove that ever I writ any Letter or directed any man to write a Letter into Scotland or into forein parts No man proved that I sent away any Letter that I received any Letter that I collected or gave or lent any money to assist or promote the Scotish War This is all that was sworn against me that I was present when Letters were read that I made a motion for money to give to Massey so that Beloved my presence at and concealment of Letters that were received and sent from forreign parts There being a disturbance amongst the people he said