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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

hours between your Petitioner and Death he is humbly bold before he breathe out his soul to God to breathe out his Request to the Parliament by making his last Address to you humbly acknowledging he hath incurred your high Displeasure of which he is deeply sensible and violated the Laws of this Commonwealth for which he is unfeignedly sorrowful and now also submitteth to the Sentence of the High Court and promiseth and offereth further Security neither to Plot Contrive or Design the Subversion of this present Government accounting it as a brand of the highest Ingratitude to imploy his life against you if he should by an Act of Grace and Favor receive a new life from you Wherefore your dying Petitioner before he commend his soul to God on the Block he pours out his soul to you at your Bar That you would be pleased by your gracious merciful and seasonable Interposition to prevent this sad stroke now the hand is even lifted up and he is as one giving up the ghost and if he have provoked you so far as to render him uncapable of an Absolute Pardon yet he humbly beseeches you to change the Sentence of death into perpetual Banishment in so doing your Mercy will triumph over Iustice and the greatness and nearness of his danger he being as one free among the dead will exceedingly greaten the freeness of your Grace and Mercy And your Petitioner shall pray c. Christopher Love Read July 15. 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the Wife of Christopher Love SHEWETH THat your poor Petitioner hath great cause to say Blessed be God and blessed be You for your merciful Vote of the 15th of Iuly a Day never to be forgotten in adding a moneth to the Life of her dear Husband which hath opened a door of Hope to her in the midst of the Valley of Achor and made her glad though she be a woman of a sorrowful Spirit yet your distressed Handmaid is overwhelmed with grief and anguish of Soul and cannot be comforted when she remembers that doleful Day the 15th of August so near approaching her heart doth almost die within her and she is as one giving up the ghost before she is delivered of the fruit of her womb Wherefore your greatly distressed Handmaid doth again pour out her soul with renewed and importunate Requests Beseeching your Honors to commiserate her deplorable Condition by putting on bowels of Pity and Compassion towards her dear condemned Husband that she may not grapple with the intollerable pains of Travel and the unsupportable thoughts of her Husband's death in one day O that the Life of your Handmaid and her Babe might be a Ransom for the Life of her condemned Husband she had rather chuse out of love to die for him then for sorrow of heart to die with him Now the good Lord incline your hearts to give him his life for a Prey wheresoever it shall please your Honors to cast him And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. Mary Love To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Christopher Love a Condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London SHEWETH THat your Petitioner doth humbly adore the wonderful Goodness of God and most thankfully acknowledge the great Mercy of the Parliament for so seasonable and acceptable an Act of Grace to such an offending Suppliant that when there was but a step between him and death the number of his days being accomplished and he almost cut off from the Land of the living then you mercifully interposed and gave him his Life for a moneth longer which was to him as a Resurrection from the dead The consideration whereof melteth the heart of your Petitioner and makes him after a more narrow search into his heart and ways more deeply sensible then ever of his sin against God and more sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament in his late and great Miscarriages He humbly acknowledgeth he hath so highly violated the Laws of the Commonwealth as that thereby he hath rendered himself guilty of the Sentence of death justly passed on him by the High Court of Justice He doth also herewith humbly offer to your Honors a free and full Narrative under his hand of the whole Design to the best of his remembrance which he leaveth to your grave Wisdoms and favorable Interpretations fully resolving that he will neither plot contrive or design any thing prejudicial to the present Government but will in his place and calling oppose any Designs whatsoever whether in this or the neighbor Nation that may tend to the ruine of this Commonwealth Your dying Petitioner with all humble importunity prostrates himself at your feet puts his mouth in the dust O that there may be hope craving your tender Mercy begging his Life at your hands promising never to imploy that Life against you he shall receive from you but doth hold it his Duty in his place and calling to lay out himself for the glory of God the good of his people the Peace and Safety of this Commonwealth And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. Christopher Love Read August 14. 1651. Reod again August 16. 1651. A Brief and full NARRATIVE Humbly presented with my Petition to the Parliament By me CHRISTOPHER LOVE COnsidering how a clear and full Narrative may satisfie the State although it may prejudice my self I am willing with an Ingenuous Freedom and openness of heart to make known the whole matter so far as I distinctly know and well remember humbly hoping that this large acknowledgement of mine which is more then any in the world can prove against me shall not be taken as an Aggravation of my fault but as a Demonstration of my Ingenuity Before I mention the matters of Fact I humbly crave leave to signifie the time when and maner how I came to be intangled in this unhappy Business As for the time it was after the breaking off the Treaty between the King and the Scots at Jersey for before that time to the best of my remembrance I was not privy to or acquainted with any meetings about the sending of Captain Titus whose face I never saw to Jersey or sending Letters to him or receiving Letters from him whiles he was there or about sending any Letters to or receiving Letters from the King Queen Jermyn Piercy or any other person in Forraign parts during the Treaty at Jersey But after that Treaty was ended Mr. William Drake came to me told me he had News to impart and to that end he desired to know if he could get Friends together whether I was willing that they should meet at my house it being conveniently scituate in the midst of the City that so he might communicate what he heard of Affairs abroad To satisfie my curiosity to hear News I was content to let him with those he should bring to meet

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 Whose hatred is covered by deceit his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole Congregation Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein And he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him Prov. 26. 26 27. London Printed for R. W. and Peter Cole at the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England The Humble Petition of Christopher Love a condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner having received the Sentence of Death by the High Court of Justice and is preparing himself in all humility and serious submission to drink that bitter Cup the terror whereof though much abated through the pardoning Mercies of God in the blood of sprinkling yet your Petitioner being brought down to the dust of death desires to see the righteous Lord in this Sentence acknowledging it to be just with the Most High to cut him off both in the middest of his days and in the midst of his Ministry He desires to be deeply humbled under the mighty hand of God lying now before the Lord and you putting his mouth in the dust that there may be hope that the Lord will pardon his manifold iniquities and that your Honors will pass by his Offences done contrary to your Laws which as he formerly did so still doth confess renders him culpable for which he is unfeignedly sorry Your Petitioner goeth not about to plead Excuse but with an humble Submission prostrates himself at your feet acknowledging he hath offended against the Acts of this Common-wealth and thereby is fallen under your sore displeasure of which he is very deeply sensible and sorrowful also Your Petitioner therefore having no other refuge left him on earth to redeem his Life from death but the Favor of this Honorable House makes his humble Addresses to you in the day of his deep Distress that you would as the Elect of God put on bowels of Compassion towards him that his life may be given him for a prey that he may give his life for a Sacrifice for the glory of God and good of this Nation and if the Lord shall please to stir up your hearts to remit the Execution and absolve him from the Sentence of Death it will be to him as life from the dead and he shall thankfully acknowledge God as the Author and you as the Instruments and humbly hopes it will be no matter of grief to you in the Great Day of your Accompt to rescue his life from going down to the Pit and he is perswaded that hereby the hearts of many that are godly will be comforted and united and many Thanksgivings from them will redound to God in your behalf and will lay Obligations on your Petitioner the remainder of his days to lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty and a Promise in his place and calling to endeavor the Peace and Welfare of this Commonwealth And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. Christopher Love Read July 9. 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The Humble Petition of Christopher Love a Condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner doth with all Thankfulness acknowledge it a singular Providence of God and special Favor of the Parliament that a door of Hope is yet open and opportunity once more offered to prostrate himself at your feet for a Grant of his Life which if you vouchsafe he shall accept as an Act of great Grace and Mercy It is no little grief of heart to your Petitioner that through unadvisedness and weakness he is fallen under your sad and heavy Displeasure and hath offended against the Laws of this Commonwealth and now by the Sentence of the High Court of Justice to which he submits with all Christian meekness and humble acknowledgement of Gods hand therein is in inevitable and sudden danger to lose his Life without your merciful and gracious Interposition And whereas there is a Surmise of a Plot continued against the Peace and Welfare of this Commonwealth he doth protest in the presence of God the Searcher of all hearts that he knoweth no Plot or Design against the present Government nor is he privy in the least to any preparations for or intendments towards any intestine Insurrections or forreign Invasions or to any Correspondencies now held with any in or of the Scotish Nation or any other whatsoever He is not ignorant how much Malignants will triumph at his death nor is he without natural affections to his dear Wife and Children nor without real desires of life to do God and his Countrey service which are powerful Perswasions to him to do whatever he can without wounding his Conscience Your dying Petitioner humbly prays That as the Elect of God you would put on bowels of Compassion and in imitation of your Heavenly Father whose Mercy rejoyceth against Judgement be pleased to absolve him from the Sentence of Death which will be to him as life from the dead and this new Life received from your hands will lay strong Obligations on your Petitioner to endeavor in his place and calling the composing of Differences among the Godly and preserving spiritual Peace and Love throughout the Churches of the Saints as well as the civil Peace and Welfare of the Commonwealth And he further promises neither to Plot Contrive or Design any thing to the hurt of this present Government and if it shall be required to put in further Security for performance hereof and if none of these things should move you to vouchsafe an Absolute Pardon yet let him implore thus much from your hands as his last though very uncomfortable Request That you would be pleased to change the Sentence of death into Banishment into some strange Land where he may sit alone lamenting his sad and deplorable Condition And your Petitioner shall pray c. Christopher Love Read July 11. 1651. To the Supream Authority The Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Christopher Love condemned to die and the hour of Execution drawing near Most humbly sheweth THat whereas there are but very few

at my house Thus for the time when and maner how I came to be present at any meetings about Intelligence I now come humbly and truly to relate the matter of Fact which is as followeth It appeared to me by the Testimony of the Witnesses that there were frequent meetings by Mr. Drake Alford Titus Adams and others soon after the death of the late King and Applications made to the King of Scots the Queen his Mother to Jermyn and Piercy both before and during the Treaty at Jersey of which I know nothing nor was I present But the first meeting I was at was at my house and was as I remember at the reading of a Letter which came from Captain Titus after the Treaty was ended at Jersey the Contents of that Letter was if I mistake not to this effect That the Treaty at Jersey was broken off through the violent and evil Counsels of desperate Malignants and that he had something of concernment to communicate which he durst not do in person being not safe for him to come over into England nor could he well do it by writing he judging it not fit nor safe to send by the common Post fearing a miscarriage wherefore he desired some body to be sent over to him to Calice to whom he might give an accompt of all Proceedings Upon the reading of this Letter Mr. Drake moved that some person should be desired to go to Calice for said he We shall hear the whole Relation of the business at Jersey Whereupon Major Adams or Cap. Farr were moved by Mr. Drake to go There was mention of Major Alford to go though he was not present that I know of nor was he ever within my house as I remember until after he returned from Calice So that there was none that I know of was gone Mr. Drake told me Major Alford was the fittest man to go over to Calice having business of his own to go into France to look after his Prodigal son So that it was said he a plausible pretence to conceal his going over to meet with Titus There were present at this first meeting Mr. Drake Mr. Jenkins Major Adams Dr. Drake Cap. Farr Cap. Potter and my self with some others but who more I cannot remember About two or three days after Major Alfords return from Calice Mr. Drake told me he was come to London and told me he would go to several Ministers and Citizens to desire them to meet at my house that so we might hear what news Major Alford brought with him from Calice accordingly the next day in the Evening they met at my house Mr. Drake brought Major Alford with him Major Alford at that meeting gave an accompt of his conference with Titus and of his receiving a Copy of the Kings Letter from him as also a Narrative of the Proceedings at the Treaty of Jersey But he said if I mistake not that he brought not over the Letters himself but delivered them to a Passenger that came over in the Ship to carry them lest that himself should be searched but after he came into England he received the Letter and Narrative from the Passenger but who he was I know not and so brought them to London Whether the Copy of the Kings Letter was read at my house in my hearing I remember not yet I deny not but it was read there I am sure I heard that the Contents of it were to this effect That he took in good part the Affections and Loyalty of those who formerly had made Applications by way of Petition to him of which Petition I know nothing And if ever God restored him or put him in a Condition he should remember them The Narrative which Alford brought from Titus was read in my house in my hearing which was to this effect He made a large Description of the King of Scots commending his Prudent Carriage and good Inclinations to an Agreement with the Scots but that his bad Councel about him hindered it Also he made a Rehearsal of his Sufferings from the Cavaliers at Jersey how he was imprisoned in a close Room Many things else was in the Narrative which I have forgotten There were present at this meeting Major Alford Mr. Drake Mr. Case Major Adams Mr. Jaquel Mr. Jackson Mr. Jenkins Doctor Drake Cap. Potter M. Sterks Cap. Farr and my self with some others but who more I do not remember A little before or about the Treaty between the King and the Scots at Breda there was a meeting at my house Mr. Drake proposed That we should think of some way to promote the Agreement between the King and the Scots where by the way I desire humbly to give notice That this was the first and onely meeting of this nature and for this end as my house that I know of At this meeting Mr. Drake took out some Papers out of his Pocket written in Characters which he read in my Study What he read went under the name of a Commission and Instructions as he termed it to be sent to the Lord Willoughby Alderman Bunce Massey Graves and Titus to appoint them to advise with and use their Interest in Persons of Honor about the King to provoke him to agree with the Scots and to take the Covenant as also to advise with the Scots Commissioners and perswade them That in their Agreemnt with their King they would have special respect to the Interest of Religion and terms of the Covenant the Commission ran in this form as if it were in the names of all the Presbyterial party in England After I heard it read I expressed my self against it alledging several Reasons chiefly That it was an Act of high Presumption for private persons to send Commission with Instructions and an act of notorious falshood to say This was in the name of the Presbyterial party of England when none but a few persons then present knew thereof that I know of Many in the Company did express a dislike thereof as well as my self I mention not this my discent as an Apology to excuse my self I know a condemned man should not plead an excuse but meerly as a Relation of such Circumstances which will make my Narrative more clear and full I shall anon mention particulars rather to aggravate then extenuate my fault But to return to the business of this meeting Mr. Draks did also read a Letter in this meeting but to whom it was I know not neither know I the Contents of it I was at least a dozen times called out of the Room whiles the Company were there met so that I am not able to give so full and particular an accompt of the Contents of the Letter and of the Commission and Instructions What Mr. Drake did about the Commission and Instructions after he was gone from my house I know not what he sent away I know not nor did I know by whom it was sent away until Major Alford declared before the High Court That

nothing that was criminal so I did deny nothing that was true and that I might seal it to you with my blood what I did deny the protestations I made before the High Court I make them briefly now That I never writ Letter to the King Queen Church or State of Scotland or to any particular person of the Scotish Nation since the Wars began to this day That I never received any Letter writ to me either from the King or from the Queen or from the Church or State of Scotland or from any particular person of the Scotish Nation since the Wars began to this day That I never collected gave or lent one peny of money either to the King Queen Church or State of Scotland or to any particular person to send into Scotland to any particular person of the Scotish Nation to this day It is true I confessed though it was not proved and happily upon that ground the mistake might rise I did give money to Massey but he is of the English not of the Scotish Nation and I did write a Letter to him but he is of the English not of the Scotish Nation That for which I here come is for moving onely for money for him and for being present when Letters were read from him and others and I am so far though man hath condemned me from thinking that either God or my own Conscience condemns me for a sin in what I am condemned for that God and my own Conscience acquits me and what I said at the Bar when I received my Sentence that now is to be executed I shall say now upon the Scaffold That for the things I am condemned neither doth God nor my own Conscience condemn me SECT X. The next particular I am accused to be an Extortioner and this is in the mouths I am loth to name them because I would not shew rancor but I am charged as if I should be a grievous Extortioner to receive 30 l. for the loan of 300. besides 8 l. in the hundred for interest which in the presence of God and of you all I do declare to you is a most notorious and an abominable falshood I am accused likewise to be an Adulterer and that this Report it is not in the mouths of mean men but in the mouths of those that sit at stern as if I were a debauched person and were guilty of uncleanness Now I tell you through the grace of God as Luther said of himself in another case That he was not tempted to Covetousness through the grace of God I can say I was not tempted in all my life to uncleanness It doth not much grieve me though these slanders lye upon me I know my betters have been worse accused before me Athanasius he was accused by two harlets that he had committed folly with them and yet the man was chaste and innocent Beza was charged not onely of Drunkenness but of Lasciviousness also and many others have been accused with the same if not worse slanders then I have been SECT XI But that which goes nearest my heart I am accused to be a Murtherer also and this is a Charge high indeed I am charged with the guilt of all the Blood of Scotland whereas if I did lie under the guilt of one drop of blood I could not look upon you with so chearful a Countenance and I could not be filled with so peaceable a Heart and Conscience as I am at this day I bless my God I am free from the blood of all indeed those who lay this to my charge they do to me as Nero did to the Christians he put Rome on fire and then charged the Christians with it so they put England and Scotland into a flame and yet charge me with the guilt of that Blood who have poured tears to God night and day to quench the burning which some mens Ambition and Lusts have kindled I would fain know of any man what act it is I have done what was it was proved in the High Court against me to make me guilty of Scotland's blood Did I ever invite the Scots to invade England what man did lay that to my charge Did I ever encourage our English Army to invade Scotland what action is it that I have done that makes me guilty of the blood Indeed this I have done and this I own and this I stand to I have as a private man prayed unto God many a day and kept many a Fast wherein I have sought God that there might be an Agreement between the King and the Scots upon the interest of Religion and the terms of the Covenant Now by what consequence can this be strained to charge me with Scotland's blood For my part I was but onely at one Meeting where that Question was proposed Fasts onely excepted what should be thought fit to be done to promote the Agreement between the King and the Scots and that was moved in my house and to that end when there were some things there produced which they called a Commission and Instructions to send to Holland as soon as ever I heard them I did declare against them I did declare that private persons it was an act of high presumption for private persons to commissionate and an act of notorious falshood to say it was in the Name of the Presbyterian Party when none knew of it as I know but onely those few that were then present Now this is onely a politique Engine to make the Presbyterian Party odious who are the best friends to a well-ordered Government of any sort of people in the world SECT XII I am accused likewise to be a man of a turbulent spirit to be an enemy to the Peace and Quiet of the Nation Now to this I would be judged let my Congregational and my Domestical Relations judge for me whether I am not a man that would fain have lived quiet in the Land I am as Jeremy was born a man of contention not actively I contend I strive with none but passively many strive and contend with me God is my witness my judgement hath put me upon endeavors after all honorable and just ways for peace and love among the godly The grief of my heart hath been for the Division and the desire of my soul for a Vnion amongst Gods People And when I speak of a union I would not be misunderstood I do not mean a State-union to engage to the present Power that is against my Principle that is to say a Confederacy with them that say a Confederacy that is rather a Combination then a Gospel-union Those who have gotten Power into their hands by Policy and use it by Cruelty they will lose it with Ignominy Sher. Titchhurn Sir be modest I am not able to endure this indeed I am not Love Sir I shall look God in the face with what I say Beloved I am afraid of your Vnion which I plead for to wit a Church-union I am stopped in

many things a Church union to wit love among the Godly This is it the desires of my soul have been ever for that those that fear God might walk hand in hand in the fellowship of the Gospel both in truth and love if this Vnion be not I am afraid through our divisions a company of loose Libertines will rise who will endeavor not onely to overthrow Doctrines of Faith and Religion and Maners but then correcting himself he said Doctrines of Faith and the power of Godliness but even good Maners also I remember an observation of Holy Greenham giving his judgement upon the State of England he said thus There is a great fear of Popery coming into England I fear that too but I fear more the coming of Atheism into England then the coming in of Popery and truly that is my fear also Thus as to my practices SECT XIII A word now as to my Principles I am accused to be an Apostate to be a Turn-coat to be this to be that to be any thing but what I am In the General I will tell you That I bless my God an High Court a long Sword a bloody Scaffold hath not made me in the least to alter my Principles or to wrong my Conscience And that I might discover to you my Principles I hope I shall do it with freedom I will iritate and provoke none what I shall say shall not be an iritation or provocation of others at least not intended by me but onely as a genuine and clear Manifestation of my Principles how they stand First Then my Principles As to Civil and Religious Affairs I declare That I die with my Judgement set against Malignity I do hate both name and thing I still retain as vehement a detestation of a Malignant Interest as ever I did yet I would not be misunderstood I do not count the Godly party our Covenanting Brethren in Scotland I do not count them a Malignant party nor their defending their Nation and Title to their King to be a Malignant Interest but an honest and a justifiable Cause SECT XIV Secondly I am of this Judgement though I am against Malignity yet I am not against but for a Regulated Monarchy a mixt Monarchy as ours was I judge to be one of the best Governments in the world I did it is true oppose in my Place and Calling the Forces of the late King and were he alive again and should I live longer the Cause being as then it was I should oppose him longer I did oppose his Forces but never was against the Office I do as much hate Court Parasites who would screw up Monarchy into Tyranny as those who pull it down to bring in Anarchy I was never Thirdly I was never for putting the King to death whose Person I did promise in my Covenant to preserve It is true I did in my Place and Calling oppose his Forces but I did never endeavor to destroy his Person There is a scandal raised of me That in a Sermon at Windsor I should have these words That it would never be well with England till the King were let blood upon the Neck-Vein Which in the presence of God and of you all I never spake such words as relating to him though my judgement then was and still is for bringing Malignants who did seduce him and draw him from the Parliament to condign punishment I deem it an ill way to cure the Body Politique by cutting off the Political Head SECT XV. Fourthly I die with my Judgement not satisfied to take the Ingagement I pray God forgive them that impose it and subscribe it and preserve those that refuse it I would not in the next place be looked upon now I am a dying man I would not be looked upon as a man owning this present Government I die with my Judgement against it It is true in a Case of Life I did Petition the present Power and did give them the Titles they take to themselves and other men give them but herein I did not wrong nor cross my Principles There are many Instances in the Scripture to justifie this Hushai did give the Title to Absolon though Absolon had no right to the Title David was the lawful King and David himself gave him the Title as well as Hushai And Calvin he gave a Title to the French King calling him Rex Christianissimus The most Christian King yet he knew he was a Papist And we gave a Title to King Henry the eighth to call him The Defender of the Faith and yet he had no right to the Title he was an Opposer not a Defender of the Faith The Title was given him upon an evil ground because he opposed the Faith he opposed the Doctrine of Luther and therefore the Pope gave him that Title The Defender of the Faith and yet none did scruple to give him the Title that was then commonly given him SECT XVI In the next place I discover my Judgement I provoke none onely tell you what my own thoughts are That so after I am dead and gone I might not be belied for I dare not now bely my Principles My Judgement is against the Invasion of the Scotish Nation by our English Army They who gave us a friendly Assistance who were joyned with us in the same Covenant who drew a Sword with us in the same Quarrel should I live a thousand years I should never draw a Sword against them in all my life Scotland may say as it was said of Edom The men of my Confederacy that were at Peace with me have risen up against me deceived me and prevailed against me Because Scotland will not be a Commonwealth they shall not be a people because they will not break Covenants some men would have them broken because they will not lay their Consciences waste their Land must be laid waste Lastly And so I have done onely with a word of Exhortation I die cleaving to all those Oaths Vows Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the Two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my Judgement for them The Vow and Covenant The Protestation The Solemn League and Covenant And this I tell you all I had rather die a Covenant keeper then live a Covenant breaker SECT XVII I have onely now I am come to the third and last part of my Speech and so I shall have done and commit my Soul unto God who gave it My Exhortation it shall be to this great City unto the Godly Ministry of it and unto my own Congregation from whom death hath parted me which nothing else could To the City I wish an affluence and a confluence of all Blessings upon it and yet I fear gray hairs as the Symptoms of a Declension are here and there upon it yet she knows it not O London London God is staining the pride of all thy Glory thy Glory is flying away like a Bird contempt of the Ministry opposition against Reformation