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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

former Nor let any Advocate either for M. Love or M. Gibbon think to justifie them in their imputation of the said blood spilt upon the State or men in present power by pretending that they sent an Army into Scotland and made war upon the said King and Scotish Nation before they attempted any thing against this For evident it was and is circumstances purporting hostility in that Nation against this standing as then they did that the warlike Preparations and Levies at this time on foot and hastened in that Nation sorely threatned and endangered this So that the war since breaking out between the two Nations was not occasioned or properly begun by the English Army sent into Scotland but by those Levies and formidable Preparations for War which the Scotish King and Nation were advancing with an high hand before the said English Army came amongst them Nor is there the least colour or pretext of Reason to think that in case the said Army had not entred the Scotish Territories the War hereby might have been prevented because the Scotish Nation was now big with this bloody birth ready to cry out and to be delivered when the said Army entred All that can reasonably be imputed to the entrance of the English Army into Scottish quarters before their entrance into English is was That Scotland by this means became the Seat of the War which otherwise England must have been It is the opinion and judgement of Civilians generally That men may lawfully make War when they fear lest themselves should be warred upon We ought not saith Albericus Gentilis a learned Civilian in Oxford in Queen Elizabeth's days we ought not to expect present Force it is more safe if we meet with that which is future with much more to this purpose transcribed by M. Prynne in his third Part of the Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms cap. 14. where a judicious Reader may receive plenary satisfaction not simply concerning the Lawfulness but also the Necessity of the Parliaments sending an Army into Scotland under such circumstances as then ruled So that it was unworthiness of spleen and revenge both in M. Love and M. Gibbons though they be both great pretenders to meekness and clearness of spirit towards their Adversaries not goodness of Conscience that prompted them upon the Scaffold with this imputation against those whom they call their Adversaries viz. That they are the men upon whose heads the blood spilt between the two Nations resteth And as the high Priest with the chief Priests took it very hainously at the hand of the Apostles that they should charge them with the crucifying of Christ Ye have filled Jerusalem say they with your Doctrine and intend to bring this mans blood upon us So do M. Love and his fellows swell with indignation against those who entitle them to the late blood-shed between the Nations though their title in this kinde be as unquestionable as that of the Priests to the crucifying of Christ It cannot upon any tolerable account of Reason be said That had not the English Army entred Scotland no blood between the Nations had been spilt but it may upon a very lively and pregnant account be said That had not M. Love M. Gibbons with the rest of the Conspiracy tampered the King of Scots into an Agreement with that Nation by solemn promissory engagement of themselves and their Party in England to stand by him upon that condition and by signifying unto him and his Party their disaffections to the present Government this blood had not been shed And this I have credibly heard to be the acknowledged soul-perswasion of one of the greatest and ablest parts amongst the Conspirators The Conclusion here is That both M. Love and M. Gibbon wash their hands from blood with very foul water and which defiles them yet more when they burthen their Adversaries so called by them with that guilt which sticks so fast and close unto themselves and is the fruit not of the Ambition and Lusts of their Adversaries but of their own Whereas in purging himself from the Aspersion of Lying he saith thus I hope you will believe a dying man who dare not look God in the face with a lie in his mouth intimating as if his being ready to die was a bridle in his lips to restrain him from lying the truth is according to that principle of his formerly mentioned that he who ever once truly believed can never by any sin or wickedness whatsoever lose the love and favor of God his being ready to die in conjunction with a perswasion of his Saintship should rather be a temptation upon him to lie or commit any other wickedness then an engagement upon him to refrain lying For in case he were in hope of living still in the world and should practice lying or any other sin he had cause to fear that though God would not cast him out of his saving Love for such practices yet he might and would severely punish him otherwise But when a person of such a principle certainly knows that he shall presently die he hath no ground to fear any punishment at all from God for whatsoever he shall now either say or do because death according to the said principle delivers him for ever out of his hand Nor am I free from all Jealousie but that the Principle I speak of had some malignant inf●uence upon M. Love's spirit in many of those unworthy strains and misdemeanors which proceeded from him at his death Whereas he pleads to that particular indictment of lying insisted upon by himself That what he denied before the High Court of Justice he neither afterwards confessed himself nor was it proved by others against him very possibly in his equivocal sence of the words denying proving and confessing that which he pleads may be true But M. Love had he been ingenuous when he was before a Court of Judicature where the common and known Dialect of the Law useth to be spoken and where critical and captious Formalities of speech are not expected he should have denied onely such things which according to a Law-sense of the words used by him he could truly have denied Upon these terms he could neither have denied that he ever wrote Letter to the King Queen Church or State of Scotland nor yet that he never received any Letter c. Because in the Law-signification of the words writing Letters they are as well said to write Letters who are either advising or consenting to or directing in the writing of them as they who write them with a Pen And I presume That if any man aspersed Mr. Love with the Crime of Lying in this particular by lying they meant equivocating and so used the milder term of the two in their Charge But whereas he presently saith That he came meaning to die upon the Scaffold onely for moving for money for Massey and for being present when Letters were read c. How notorious an

terrified others c. that so the blot and shame of a miscarrying tongue may not test upon him Fourthly Because by reason of his swallowing even Camels of untruth so frequently and familiarly as he doth in this Discourse I have ground to be jealous at least lest as the conscience of the Iesuit is moulded into this principle that it is lawful to say or do things otherwise unlawful in ordine ad bonum spirituale so Mr. Love's conscience stood free and large in him to speak and do almost any thing in ordine ad bonum Presbyteriale Fifthly and lastly Because M. Love was rooted to the center of the Earth and built up to the midst of Heaven in such a Principle in Divinity which gives fair quarter to the foulest practices that are in the Saints especially when they certainly know they shall die presently viz. that no perpetration of sin and wickedness whatsoever can separate those from the love of God in Christ who have at any time believed in him ANIMAD upon Sect. 7. I never met with so many senceless and unsavory Contradictions within so small a compass as in this Speech How can Mr. Love say that he will not judge his Judges nor yet justifie them when as in the words immediately following he must of necessity either do the one or the other For if he supposeth the Oath for the sake whereof his Judges as he saith cut off his head to have been justifiable or lawful and they by the tenor and band of this Oath stood bound to do what they did in cutting off his Head then he clearly justifieth them if he supposeth either the said Oath to have been unlawful or their Fact in cutting off his Head to have been besides or contrary to this Oath and that they had no Ingagement upon them otherwise to do it then he judgeth them But the truth is we can upon no better or more favorable account ease Mr. Love in the greatest part of things uttered by him in this Speech then by conceiving that the words spoken by him bear a far differing sence and signification in his understanding from that which they bear in ours For what is it to judge in our sence of the Word then to charge with Injustice Unrighteousness acting contrary to the Word or Laws of God And whither Mr. Love doth not again and again and seven times over in this discourse thus charge his Judges I refer to his Friends themselves to judge and determine Therefore in the ordinary acception of the word Judge when Mr. Love saith he will not judge his Judges he speaks besides the Truth And though here he refuseth to justifie them yet when the Spirit of Ingenuity was upon him as himself once and again professeth it was in the Composure of his Narrative he did fairly and fully justifie them as we have already heard and is further manifest in the Narrative it self Printed herewith By the way of how sad and bleeding a consideration is it that a man whose heart served him to be ingenuous in his life should quench so Christian a Spirit and suffer himself to be hardened at the time of his death Besides did he not fully justifie his Judges in his last Petition to the Parliament in these words He humbly acknowledgeth that he hath so highly violated the Laws of the Common-wealth as that thereby he hath rendred himself guilty of the Sentence of death justly passed on him by the High Court of Justice The words immediately preceding these are of a like import ANIMAD upon Sect. 8. I shall say little upon this Section having already given notice how untruly and unchristianly he calls the Letter here specified an insulting Letter Yet to say that it was written to him for such an end as here he chargeth it with viz. To tell him that after he was dead something should be published against him c. as if this had been either the onely or the principal drift of the Letter is much more dis-ingenuous I presume there is no man that shall please to read this Letter being since printed but will acknowledge the drift and scope of it to have been honorable and Christian and not unworthy the best and dearest Friend M. Love had ANIMAD upon Sect. 9 10 11 12. M. Love here instanceth five Aspersions laid upon him in point of practice As for those of Extortion and Adultery I never so much as heard M. Love and either of them named together I will not say that M. Love prudentially subjecteth himself to such aspersions from which he knows he can sufficiently purge himself But he that lyeth under a suspition of several Crimes and is able fully to assert his innocency in respect of any one or more of them gains an advantage hereby to make the purgation of himself from the rest the more creditable Concerning Murther neither did I ever hear this formally or in the letter of it laid to his charge But that in his Communications with the King of Scots and other persons of his adherency declared Enemies to the State and Government of this Commonwealth he was eminently and transcendently a murtherer hath been sufficiently proved against him upon oath by many witnesses yea his own Confessions in his Narrative and Petitions do not fall much short of such a proof Therefore whereas § 11. he traduceth those who charge him with the guilt of that blood which hath been spilt in the present Wars between the two Nations that they do by him as Nero did by the Christians c. a notion suggested by the same spirit of Revenge unto his fellow Gibbons also he deals by them as Potiphar's wife did by her servant Joseph who being incontinent her self accused him of incontinency to his Lord because he refused to gratifie her lust M. Love Mr. Gibbon and the rest of their Association being desirous that this State and those in present power amongst us should condescend to their impolitique Principles and Humors in admitting the Scotish King to a monarchical Throne over this Nation and herein to own a Scotisb Superintendency over them and the Nation and they refusing to comport with them in such their lusts and desires and attempting by the best and indeed the onely means they had to withstand the said King in his claim to the English Throne together with the Scotish Nation his imperious and proud Abettors in this his Claim upon this Account and this onely Mr. Love and M. Gibbon charge the Blood that hath been spilt in the present Wars between the Nations upon the State and present Powers amongst us Let the world if there be a part of it yet unbewitched and capable of judging give Sentence in case there be blood spilt between a company of Thieves and a like party of harmless Travellers by the way upon occasion of an Assault made by the former upon the latter whether the spilling of this blood be to be charged upon the latter or the

Nation by the English Army This he declares against unto the other he is silent as consenting to it All the world may hereby see that his Principles were calculated according to the exigency of his Interest and Faction and not for the service of Righteousness and Truth For was not the Scotish Nation joyned in the same Covenant with the English wherein the English was joyned with the Scotish If not the English made a very sorry Bargain in covenanting with the Scotish If so then suppose the Grounds and Reasons for the one Invasion and the other had been but equal or the same and that the English could give no better an Accompt otherwise of their invading as Mr. Love is pleased to clothe a smooth Action with a rough garment the Scotish Nation then the Scotish are able to give of their invading England yet the English Invasion of Scotland is much more justifiable or excusable then the Scotish of England in as much as the Scotish were first in the Provocation But as hath been lately proved the sending of an Army by the English into Scotland is every ways justifiable warranted by the judgements and decisions of the best learned in the Civil Laws who are very competent Judges in the Cause being altogether unrelated unto the persons or Nations Whereas there hath not yet been nor indeed can there be any tolerable Accompt given of the Scotish Invasion of this Nation Besides what hath been formerly said to take off whatsoever may seem unjust or hard in the sending of an Army into Scotland by the Parliament of England two things further may here be added First that presently after the Execution of the late King they the Scotish Nation proclaimed their own King King of England Secondly not content with this Usurpation over this Nation they engaged themselves further to assist him in his Acquirement of the English Throne So that when the English Army went into Scotland there was no such thing in being as that Covenant between the two Nations which Mr. Love speaks of the Scotish having before this broken it in pieces and troden it under their feet and so had absolutely disobliged the English from the bands or terms of it But when he saith ●hat because Scotland will not be a Commonwealth they shall not be a People doubtless in stead of speaking his Conscience he spits out his Gall For he could not but know that the English had no quarrel at all took no offence against the Scotish for chusing themselves to be a Kingdom rather then a Commonwealth but because they would not suffer the English to be a Commonwealth but would compel them by force of arms to be a Kingdom like to them yea and to take a King of their chusing For the Friendly Assistance Mr. Love speaks of as given by the Scotish to the English it was rather Assistance then friendly For with that Assistance they gave they mingled much Hostility behaving themselves like persons light-fingered who when a well furnished house is on fire are easily invited to assist in the quenching of it and very possibly may do some service this way but their eye is more upon booty then service or assistance However if the Scotish have given assistance to the English worthy Mr. Love's Epithite the English are not behinde-hand with them in that kinde of courtesie A friendly Assistance was very lately given to the Covenanting Party in Scotland when they stood in mickle need of it by the English and this not onely without any covenanted hire but also without any uncovenanted spoyl or plunder The Scotish were double paid for their Assistance by the English the English were royal and gave theirs freely I shall not disturb Mr. Love in his cleaving to his Oaths Vows Covenants and Protestations Nor do I marvel at all that he should rather desire to dye a Covenant-keeper then live a Covenant-breaker but this I confess I do more then marvel at That this being his desire he should be no more loyal and true to it then both to live and die not a Covenant-keeper but a Covenant-breaker and this in the main and most important Articles of the Covenant such I mean which respect the Safety Peace and Liberties of the Nation ANIMAD upon Sect. 17. His good wishes to the City of London God perform his fears may they vanish as the grounds of them here expressed are for the most part empty and light As to contempt of the Ministery the number I confess of the children of this guilt is too great the Lord in mercy lessen it Yet blessed be God it is not so great as the Arithmetique of Mr. Love's known principles computeth it They are not all guilty of contempt of the Ministery who do not honor every man that calleth himself a Minister or that preacheth with the invisible Character of Imposition of hands upon him The contempt of some who look to be honored as Ministers may rather be matter of wisdom and duty then of sin There are sundry kindes of Ministers from whom men are commanded by God to turn away Such as are Clouds without water and full of fire in stead thereof such as are raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame such as ordinarily build hey and stubble and wood in stead of silver gold and precious stones the Judgements and Consciences of understanding men will not suffer them to honor But Mr. Love here according to the Politique Dialect of his Tribe would fain have the neglect which many Ministers very deservedly suffer to be thought not the neglect of their persons but of their Function and Ministery that so themselves may not be suspected as accessary to it Whereas the certain truth is that far the greatest part of that which he here calls the Contempt of the Ministery is nothing else but a Rush growing out of the mire of the Ministers themselves However if Mr. Love made an estimate of the Contempt of the Ministery in the City of London either by his own Parish and People or by the view and bulk of his more usual Auditory he had I presume no great reason to prophesie evil or danger against the City for that sin What he means by Opposition against Reformation is I suppose too well known to be looked upon by men acquainted with the ways methods and grounds of Gods Judgements as any thing much endangering the City in this kinde Opposition I confess against that Reformation of the hearts lives and ways of men which the Scriptures every where with all importunity press upon the Consciences of men is a sad symptom of imminent danger to a City or People where it is general But Opposition to that which in the Dialect of High Presbytery which Mr. Love much useth is termed Reformation is little symptomatical in that kinde There is the same Consideration of his Covenant-breaking There is a Covenant-breaking which doubtless hath brought London much lower then otherwise it should or

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

Governments is not of so much weight as to counterpoise the lightest Argument in oppositum His affection of hatred equally bent against Court Parasites who would screw up Monarchy into Tyranny and against those who pull it down to bring in Anarchy is praise-worthy Onely I suspect in the latter Clause an evil eye of insinuation against the Parliament as if he desired to infuse this foolish Faith into the people That they pulled down Monarchy not with any intent to set up a better Government in the stead of it but to bring in Anarchy or Confusion Whether he was at any time formerly for putting the King to death or no I cannot positively say if he was not he was an unhappy man to express himself both in words and deeds so like unto a man of such intentions as he did He confesseth his judgement formerly was and still is for the bringing of Malignants who did seduce him and drew him from the Parliament to condign punishment But what if Malignants did not so much seduce him in this kinde as he them who now deserve and this according to the express letter of the Covenant to be brought to condign punishment They that best knew him have often said That himself was the head and not the tayl of those Councels by which he acted against the Parliament I know no alteration in the Cause between what is now and what it was at the time Mr. Love speaks of unless it be in this That the Parliament now both with more Christianity and better Policy causeth the Presbyterian Interest to contain it self in its own proper Channel which before was like the River Jordan in the time of Harvest when he overflows his banks ANIMAD upon Sect. 15. Here M. Love professeth that he dies with his judgement not satisfied to take the Engagement and yet prays God to forgive those who subscribe it What is this being interpreted but to pray to God to forgive those concerning whom he is not satisfied in his judgement whether they sin or no But as Paul having first given this testimony to the Galatians ye did run well then expostulatingly demands of them who hindred you that you should not obey i. e. continue to obey the truth So let me first give this Testimony to M. Love as I have given it already being furnished with it from his own Petitions He did some few days before run well not simply in owning the present Government but also in engaging himself home to it and for it and then expostulate with his friends himself not being in a capacity to answer who hindred him that he should not hold out in so good and commendable a race unto the end He labors in the very fire to purge himself from the Crime as now the Scaffold it seems had made it of his late owning the present Government but the fire he useth is purely elementary and will not purge or burn For if David and Hushai gave the Title of King to Absolom there is little question but in a sense and that intended by them it did of right belong to him Neither the one nor the other of them gave the title of King to him until he was proclaimed King by the men of Israel yea and was possessed of the royal city Jerusalem the Throne So that he was truly and properly King when the Title of King was given by these men unto him though it is true he came to be a King and so to have right to such a Title in a most wicked and treasonable way So that both David and Hushai look'd upon Absolom as a true King though with usurpation when they gave the Title unto him and consequently did nothing contrary to their judgements and consciences herein But M. Love it seems was not perswaded in his judgement or conscience that the Parliament was the Parliament or Supream Authority of the Commonwealth of England when he gave these Titles unto them therefore he sinned against his conscience in so doing So that saying That herein he did not wrong or cross his Principles doth he not plainly imply that his Principles and Conscience thwart and cross the one the other If he had any such Principle which either led him or gave him leave to act or speak against his Conscience it was a Principle of darkness and of death If Calvin judged that the Title Christianissimus did in no sense belong to the French King I know not who can excuse him in giving it unto him And if the Subjects of this Nation did generally give the Title Defender of the Faith unto Henry the eighth knowing no sufficient ground why it should or could with truth be given unto him neither can they be defended or justified in giving it But why doth M. Love insert or insist upon these words In case of Life Doth he suppose that the case he speaks of will alter the case of owning the present Government from sin to righteousness Or is it his Principle That to save his Life he may do any thing whatsoever and yet be blameless But how doth he here toyl and turmoyl himself to salve the honor of his Conscience onely that he might reproach and calumniate the Parliament with the more authority reputation yet he that spent so much of his breath which at such a time when he had so very little of it left should have bin precious to him about vindicating his innocency in owning the present Government though it was it seems as much against his Principles to own it then when he did own it as it is now when he disowns it no change as himself professeth being made in his Principles by the Scaffold hath not a word either here or elsewhere to speak for himself hath not a drop of water to wash off that foul stain and blot from his Conscience which it contracted by casting dirt and mire in the faces of those not onely whom he had a few days before owned in the capacity of their Government and Authority but to whom likewise he had publiquely given a large testimony of Justice Mercy Wisdom Gravity of being the Elect of God c. yea and to whom he had publiquely and solemnly promised and engaged himself neither to plot contrive or design any thing prejudicial to them but to oppose any Design whatsoever against them Doubtless neither David nor Hushai nor Calvin nor any man either of Conscience or Honor would have broken or falsified especially so publiquely and in the face of the Sun such solemn Promises and Engagements made to persons in dignity and to whom they had so immediately before given such large testimony of many worthy Endowments and all this without giving the least accompt of such desultory and fedifragous practices ANIMAD upon Sect. 16. It seems by the Contents of this Section that Mr. Love's Principles stood fair for the Invasion of the English Nation by the Scotish Army but fell foul upon the Invasion of the Scotish