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A88596	The true and perfect speec [sic] of Mr. Christopher Love on the scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday last, being the two and twentieth day of this instant August, 1651. Comprizing his funerall sermon; his exhortation to the citizen his propositions touching religion; and his prayer immediately before his head was severed from his body. Together with Mr. Gibbons his speech; and the manner of his deportment, carriage, and resolution: published for the good of the Common-wealth of England.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3182; Thomason E790_3; ESTC R207307	9,061	8

gods whom they knew not to now gods that came newly up their new gods what were they but old Devills many of those things going under the notion of her ●●ghts are but old darknesse raked out of the dunghill of error that hath been ●ast out and by the Church buried with reproach 4. Bewaile the great lesse you have of the taking away your Ministers already ten Ministers at once those burning and sl●ining lights in their particular Candlesticks and bright Star●es in their several Oths though I am not worthy of the world yet I am take● ou● of it but as for my suffering Brethren which are under bonds and ●anishments in the world of them the world is not worthy Take heed of ingaging the Wa●●e with 〈◊〉 friends I have opposed the Tyranny of a King but I never opposed the Ti●le take heed what you do to speak to the 〈◊〉 Ministers of this City were 〈◊〉 a dying I would say nothing for multitude of years teach wild in and therefore would be silen● I desire God to shew them mercy I would begg but 〈◊〉 of them as they have not been ashamed of my chaines so now that they would wax confident by my bonds and blo●d Acts. 29. Now Lord behold their threatnings and grant unto thy Servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word though I am but young I will offer my young experience to my grave Fathers and Brethren now I am to d●e I have abundance of peace in my own Conscience that I have set my 〈◊〉 against sin and apostacy by purchasing ●ll wil from such I have procured peace from God I have lived ●● pe●●● and I shall die in peace the Government of the Church will stand and of all 〈◊〉 with this perswasion that the Presbyterian Government makes most for purity and unity throughout the Churches of the Saints take heed of too general admissions to the Lords Supper and be not to prodigal of the blood of Christ Now speaking to them I shall speak a word of them and so finish Many 〈◊〉 there as if all the City Ministers did ingage in this design for which I a● now condemned as a dying man I tell you all the Ministers that were present at the meeting ●or had any hand in that business they are either in prison or discovered already therefore upon my death I free all the Ministers else and in which my conscience doth tell me I have not sinned I have done immediatly for I would fain be at my Fathers house I would speak to my own Congregation to give praise to God for them and to return thanks to them for they have afforded me a great deal of love ex●ept a few and liberall maintenance This is all I desire of them to choose a Learned Godly and Orthodox Minister to succeed and it would be a great comfort to me before I go to Heaven if such a one filled the place where he shall have a good livelyhood and much love I had never parted from them but that Death separated me 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 expire my last breath I come to justifie God and condemn my self for God is righteous because I have sinned though he doth cut me off in the midst of my dayes and of my Ministry I cannot take up that complaint in the 44 Psalm That thou sellest thy people for nought My bloud shall not be spilt for nought I may do more good by my death and glorifie God more upon a Scaffold then in dying upon my Bed Blessed be God I have not the least trouble in my mind I shall quietly lay my self down upon the block I see men hunger after my flesh and thi●st after my bloud which will heighten my happiness and hasten their ruine Though my bloud be not as the bloud of Nobles yet mine is Christian bloud nay Ministers bloud nay more innocent bloud also My dead-body will be a morsel hardly to be digested and but ●ad food for this Infant Common-wealth as Mr. Prideaux cals it to suck upon but ●●od is just that he hath not made the Prison Hell and this Scaffold the bottomless if it is of his mercy I do not onely justifie God but must also magnifie the riches of his grace towards me that I who was born in Wales an obscu●e Countrey of obscure Parents should be singled out For 14 years I never heard one Sermon yet in the● 5 year it pleased God to convert me Blessed be God that hath not onely made me a Christian but a Minister also and judging me faithful hath put me into the Ministery it is my glory I die so I had rather be a Preacher in a Pulpit then a Prince upon a Throne I had rather be an instrument of bringing souls to heaven then that all Nations should bring in tribute to me what ever men judge of me I am a Martyr would I have injured my Conscience and ventured my soule there had been more hope of saving my life blessed be God I have not sined but chosen affliction rather then sin wellcome death wellcom Axe wellcom Scaffold wellcom all because they will send me to a mansion in my Fathers house thanks be to God he hath stood by me in all my imprisonment he hath strengthened and supported me though I now come to an untimely end death is not a terror to me God is not a terror therefore death is not dreadful I have formerly been under a spirit of bondage and had more fear in the drawing of a tooth then now for the cutting off my head when fear was upon me death was not near now death is near fear is vanished I bless God though men judge me to be cast out of the world God hath not cast me out of his own people some think I am not worthy to live yet others judge I do not deserve to die I have done having no more to say but to desire the help of your prayers that God would give me continual supplies of divine grace to carry me through this great work I am to do that doing a work I neer did I may have that strength I never had that I may put off this body with as much comfort of mind as ever my Clothes to go to rest Now I am to commend my soule to God and to receive my fatal blowe though men thrust me out of the world they cannot shut me out of Heaven I am going to my long home and you are g●ing to your short home but I tell you I shall be at home before you I am going to the Heavenly Jerusalem to an innumerable Company of Angels to the spirits of just men made perfect and to God the Judge of all in whose presence I shall have fulness of joy and pleasure for evermore I conclude with that Speech of the Apostle in

The true and perfect SPEECH OF Mr. Christopher Love On the Scaffold on TOWER-HILL ON Friday last being the two and twentieth Day of this instant August 1651. COMPRIZING His Funerall Sermon His Exhortation to the Citizens his Propositions touching Religion And His Prayer immediately before his Head was severed from his body TOGETHER With Mr. GIBBONS his Speech and the manner of his Deportment Carriage and Resolution Published for the good of the Common-wealth of England Imprinted at London by IOHN CLOWES 1651. 〈…〉 ove his Speech on the Scaffold on Tower Hill on Friday last being accompanied by the Sheriffs Mr. Calamy the Minister and other Gentlemen of quality With the manner of his Deportment upon the preaching of his Funerall Sermon and his Exhortation to the People worthy of perusal Beloved Christians I am made this day a spectacle to God Angels and Men. I am made a grief to the Godly a laughing stock to the wicked 〈◊〉 a gazing stock to all yet blessed be God not a terror to my self although there be but a little between me and death yet that which ●eares up my heart is that there is but a little between me and Heaven it com●orted Dr. Taylor that famous Martyr going to his execution to think th●●● was but two stiles 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 ● am this day fa●ling towards the Ocean of eternity through a rough passage to ●y Haven of rest through the red Sea unto the promised Land methinks 〈…〉 God sp●●● as he said to Moses go up to Mount Nebo and die there so to me go up to Tower Hill and die there Jacob was old yet knew not the day of his death yet I am young and know the day of my death the kind of my death and the place of my death Also such a kind of death is it that two famous Preachers of the word of God suffered it before me John the Baptist and Paul the Apostle both beheaded mention being made of one in Scripture story the other in Ecclesiasti●all History these and other Saints as I have read were beheaded for the Word and for the 〈…〉 but herein is my disadvantage men think that I suffer not for Religion or Conscience but for medling with State-matters an old guise of the D 〈…〉 the cause of death to the intermedling with State-affairs the Rulers of Israel would put Ieremy to death upon a civil account because he fell away from the Chaldeans as the people said would have brought 〈◊〉 forraign force to invade ●●em which thing is laid to my charge and 〈…〉 thereof as Ieremiah was I find the cause of mens sufferings in Scripture 〈…〉 mputed to State-matters Paul m●st die if the people have their will though he preache● Christ Iesus yet by them accounted a mover of sedition ●pon a civil account is my life taken away y 〈…〉 prosecuted nothing against th● present power I am this day making a double exchange a Pulpit for a Scaffold and a Scaffold for a Thro●● and may also trade a numerous multitude for the innumerable Company of Saints on Tower-Hill for the holy Hill of Sion and this Guard of Souldiers for a Guard of Angels to carry my soule ●nto Abraham 〈…〉 this is the best Pulpit I ever came into in my former God made me an instrument to 〈◊〉 others to Heaven hereby God brings me to Heaven These are the last words I shall speak and perhaps this last speech of mine may bring more glory to God then my former Sermons Before I lay down my neck to the block I shall lay open my cause to the people I speak the truth and lie not God is my witness whom ● serve in my spirit I do not bring a revengeful heart to the Scaffold but avoiding all rancor and mallice I have bagged mercy for them that denied mercy to mee and have prayed God to forgive them that would not forgive me and the worst I wish to them is that I may meet their soules in Heaven Concerning my charge which is black and hiddeous wherein many things were falsly suggested but nothing sufficiently proved by any one Act. The Charge high and full but the proof empty and lowe though there were eight Witnesses against me yet none proved that I ever wrote any Letter or directed any to write no man proved that I sent away any Letter that I collected any mony for King Queen or any of the Scottish Nation as concerning my accusers I have forgiven them and I pray God forgive them also they not all agree amongst themselves for some being terrified before-hand would not bear witness against me Another sent to me under his own hand desiring to forgive him for the wrong he had done me and told me that day I should die a violent death his life would be no comfort to him becaus●●e was an instrument of taking away mine As concerning my accusers I wil not judge them neither will I justifie them I believed what moved Herod to put off Iohn Baptists was the cause of my death for telling Herod of his herd incest and for his Oaths sake Command was given to behead Iohn to avoid perjury he would commit murther had Iohns head continued on his shoulders he would have been guilty of 〈…〉 Concerning my self who have gone through many and various ●●po●ts some have been ready to bury my name before my friends were ready to bury my body God will not only wipe off teares from mine eyes after death but will one day wipe of blots from my name my hope is my name will not rot above ground when this body of mine shall rot under ground and be resolved into dust I am not ignorant what calumnies are cast 〈◊〉 me the verynight before I was to suffer the last moneth an insulting Letter came to my hand intimating that something would be written against me after my death but I hope you are more ingenuous then to give credit to it seeing I cannot then speak for my self I am aspersed both as to practice and principles there are 5 aspersions laid upon me first to matter of practice that I am a liar I hope you will believe a dying man that dares not look God in the face with a lie in his mouth I denyed nothing that was true before the Court what I denyed before that I confessed afterwards say some that I never wrote Letter to the King or Queen Church or State of Scotland that I never received any letter wrote to me from any one of them that I never collected gave or lent one penny to this or that particular person or to any of the Scottish Nation it is true I confess and herein lies the mistake but it was 〈◊〉 proved against me that I sent either money on Letters to Massey he was of