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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49238	Love's name lives, or, A publication of divers petitions presented by Mistris Love to the Parliament, in behalf of her husband with severall letters that interchangeably pass'd between them a little before his death : as also, one letter written to Master Love by Mr. Jaquel, one of the witnesses against him : together with seven severall letters and notes sent to him, from Dr. Drake, Mr. Jenkyn Mr. Case, and Mr. Robinson, his then fellow-sufferers : all published for publick good.	Love, Mary, 17th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing L3142; ESTC R24435	21,561	16

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

State for that your poor Petitioners Friends are willing to give all sufficient security that her Husband shall live peaceably and quietly for the time to come and never act any thing to the prejudice of this Common-wealth and present Government Now the God of heaven bow your hearts to shew mercy And your Petitioner shall pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the Wife of Christopher Love Condemned to dye Sheweth THat whereas your distressed hand-maid hath in all humility in the exceeding great bitterness of her spirit poured out her very soul to this Honourable House for the life of her condemned Husband which Petition was mercifully received and read in Parliament as your Petitioner is informed For which high favour she desireth to bless God and be thankfull to your Honours And although she hath great cause to be very sensible of your High displeasure against her Husband for which she is heartily sorry Nevertheless she hoping that your bowels yearn towards her in this her sad condition adventures once more to make her humble supplication and doth pray That if your poor Petitioners Husband hath provoked you so far as to render him utterly uncapable of your full pardon yet you would graciously be pleased to let your hand-maid find so much favour in your eyes as that you will say of your Petitioners dear Husband as Solomon said of Abiathar though thou art worthy of death we will not at this Time put thee to death Oh pardon your perplexed hand-maid if she again beseech you by the wombs that bare you and the brests that gave you suck in the bowels of the Lord Jesus Christ reprieve him for a time till she may recover her strength before he depart hence and be seen no more lest at one terrible stroke in his execution the lives of him her and the tender babe in her womb be cut off and two poor innocent Orphans be left behind to begin and end their dayes in misery And though he may not be thought worthy to breath in English aire which God forbid yet give him Oh give him leave to sigh out his sorrows under your displeasure in the utmost parts of the Earth wheresoever you shall think fit to banish him Which although it be a very great punishment in it self yet your hand-maid and her dying Husband shall acknowledg even this to be a great mercy and shall thankfully receive it at your hands And shall pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme 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 mercifull Vote the 15th of July 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 sorrowfull spirit yet your distressed hand-maid is overwhelmed with grief and anguish of soul and cannot be comforted when she remembers the dolefull day the 15th of August so near approaching her heart doth almost dye 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 hand-maid doth again pour out her soul with renewed and importunate requests beseeching your Honours to commiserate her deplorable condition by putting on bowels of pity and compassion towards her dear and condemned Husband that she may not grapple with the intollerable pains of Travell and the unsupportable thoughts of her Husbands death in one day Oh that the life of your hand-maid and her babe might be a ransome for the life of her condemned Husband she had rather chuse out of love to dye for him than for sorrow of heart to dye with him Now the good Lord incline your hearts to give him his life for a prey wheresoever it shall please your Honours to cast him And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. MARY LOVE To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of Mary the distressed Wife of Christopher Love Humbly sheweth THat your sad and sorrowfull Petitioner in the multitude of her fears wherewith her spirit is overwhelmed within her After sundry applications and grievous disappointments more bitter than death cannot cease to follow your Honours with strong cries and supplications as the importunate Cannanitish woman did the Lord Christ And O that now at last you would suffer your selves to be intreated and let your bowels yearn within you that so root and branch may not be cut off in one day The great God hears the cries of Ravens O that that God would open your hearts to hear the cries and heart-breaking grones of the Mother with the tender Babes that cannot keep silence whilest there is any hope Your desolate Hand-maid waiteth with all humility and earnest expectation at your doors beseeching you not to forget to shew mercy to your poor Petitioner and her tender Babes Oh make not your Hand-maid a widow and her children fatherless but be graciously pleased to prevent this dreadfull blow which your Petitioner trembleth to think upon and earnestly beseeches you to change the sentence of death into a sentence of banishment and whilest you are propagating the Gospel in New England let her dying husband as a Prophet from the dead be sent to endeavour the conversion of the poor Indians that so many souls may bless God in your behalf and she shall receive it from your hands as a signall favour And your Petitioner shall pray c. MARY LOVE Mr. Jaquel his Letter to Mr. Love My dear friend and beloved in the Lord MY bowels are troubled within me I am pained I am pained even at the very heart The Lord knows I want words to express the thoughts of my heart to you to you I say right Christian Friend and true Souldier of Jesus Christ I was thinking to have been silent being even ashamed to send you a line written by that hand which is very much slackened and taken off from the plough which I thought not many weeks agoe had been very fast setled Give me leave to breath forth my heart to you in such rude words and language as I can utter and I pray you receive them and spell out my heart towards you which at this time is so full that I know not how to empty it but in tears before the Lord for you night and day And oh that the remembrance of the seventh and one and twentieth of June might often come into my thoughts to keep my heart humble for my folly in taking my own and carnall friends counsell and not the counsell of those that are right godly which as I now perceive did help to bring forth that sad and never

Christ hath spoiled principalities and powers disarmed disrobed them His death is the death of Death all its stings are left in his side Say not therefore Dear heart who shall role away the stone from the mouth of the sepulchre when thou comest thither thou shalt find it rol'd away to thy hand Its difficulties and distresses are taken away in Christ To this dear Lord Jesus I commit thee who in his due time will wipe away all tears from the eyes and sin from the souls of his poor servants and out of all our storms bring us to that haven where we would be I know not where to break off and yet not where to leave thee so well as there Thine in the bowels of this Saviour Master Case to Master Love Heavenly Saint THou art now awaked out of thy last natural rest to go to thy eternall rest the night is past thou shalt never know night any more but God shall give thee light and thou shalt reign for ever and ever Rev. 22.3 4 5. Thou art now going where thou shalt be in a true sense above ordinances and above Scripture 1 Cor. 13.12 13 where God in Christ shall be thy all in all Thy prison shall be turned into a Palace and thy filthy garments shall be taken away and thou shalt be cloathed with long white Robes and in the moment when thy body and head shall be severed thou shalt be united to Christ thy Head in him thou shalt be crowned and with him thou shalt reign to eternity It is finished Joh. 17.1 4 5 6 11 13 24. Let me see that face once more which I shall see no more till the last day Send up one sigh before thee for thy following Brother and Companion in tribulation and in the Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ Another of Master Case's to Master Love Dear soul THou art now going to heaven to quicken thy desires put it into these notions that are most sutable to thy condition To the weary it is rest Isa 57.2 Rev. 14.13 To the banished home 2 Cor. 5.6 To the reproached glory Rom 5.2 To the molested and captived with corruption it is the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God Rom. 8.21 To the resister to bloud it is conquest Rom. 8.37 To the vexed with sin and sorrow it is the exstinction of both To the hungry soul it is the hidden Manna Rev. 22.17 To the thirsty rivers of pleasure water of life fountain of life Rev. 22.17 Psal 36.8 9. To the grieved soul it is fulness of joy and to the sorrowfull heart pleasures for ever more Psal 16.8 In a word To them that have lien upon the dunghill here and kept their integrity it is a throne upon which they shall sit and reign with Christ for ever and ever Rev. 3.31 22.5 Dear heart chear up a sharp breakfast but a blessed supper the supper of the Lamb. The Bridegroom saith Loe I come quickly Let thy rejoyced soul eccho back again Even so come Lord Jesus There is but a little time for prayer left in that remember me and then everlasting halelujahs will be thy work and rest Live for ever with thy God Amen I shall accompany thee with my prayers though I cannot with my person Mistress Loves Letter to Master Love My dear heart BEfore I write a word further I beseech thee think not that it is thy wife but a friend now that writes to thee I hope thou hast freely given up thy wife and children to that God who hath said in the 49. of Jer. v. 11. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive and let thy widdow trust in me thy Maker will be my Husband and a father to thy children O that the Lord would keep thee from having one troubled thought for thy relations I desire freely to give thee up into thy Fathers hands and not only look upon it as a crown of glory for thee to dye for Christ but as an honour to me that I should have an husband to leave for Christ I dare not speak to thee nor have a thought within my own heart of my unspeakable loss but wholly keep my eye fixed upon thy unexpressable and unconceivable gain Thou leavest but a sinfull mortall wise to be everlastingly married to the Lord of glory Thou leavest but children brothers and sisters to go to the Lord Jesus thy eldest Brother Thou leavest friends on earth to go to the enjoyment of Saints and Angels and the spirits of just men made perfect in glory Thou dost but leave earth for heaven and changest a prison for a Palace And if naturall affections should begin to arise I hope that spirit of grace that is within thee will quell them knowing that all things here below are but dung and dross in comparison of those things that are above I know thou keepest thine eye fixed on the hope of glory which makes thy feet trample on the loss of earth My Dear I know God hath not only prepared glory for thee and thee for it but I am perswaded he will sweeten the way for thee to come to the enjoyment of it When thou art putting on thy cloaths that morning O think I am now putting on my wedding garments to go to be everlastingly married to my Redeemer And when the messenger of death comes to thee let him not seem dreadfull to thee but look on him as a messenger that brings thee tidings of eternal life When thou goest up the scaffold think as thou saidst to me it is but thy fiery chariot to carry thee up to thy Fathers house And when thou layest down thy precious head to receive thy Fathers stroke remember what thou saidst to me Though thy head was severed from thy body yet in a moment thy soul should be united to thy Head the Lord Jesus in heaven And though it may seem something bitter that by the hands of men we are parted a little sooner than otherwise we might have been yet let us consider it is the decree and will of our Father and it will not be long ere we shall enjoy one another in heaven again Let us comfort one another with these sayings Be comforted my Dear heart it is but a little stroke and thou shalt be there where the weary shall be at rest and where the wicked shall cease from troubling Remember though thou maist eat thy dinner with bitter herbs yet thou shalt have a sweet supper with Christ that night My Dear by what I write unto thee I do not hereby undertake to teach thee for these comforts I have received from the Lord by thee I will write no more nor trouble thee any further but commit thee into the arms of that God with whom ere long thee and I shall be Farewel my Dear I shall never see thy face more till we both behold the face of the Lord Jesus at the great Day MARY LOVE July 14. 1651. Another of Mistress Loves to Master