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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

Love My heavenly Dear I Call thee so because God hath put heaven in thee before he hath taken thee to heaven Thou now beholdest God Christ and Glory as in a glass but to morrow heaven gates will be opened and thou shalt be in the full enjoyment of all those glories which eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither can the heart of man understand God hath now swallowed up thy heart in the thoughts of heaven but ere long thou shalt be swallowed up in the enjoyment of heaven And no marvel there should be such quietness and calmness in thy spirit whilest thou art sailing in this tempestuous Sea because thou perceivest by the eye of saith a haven of rest where thou shalt be richly laden with all the glories of heaven O lift up thy heart with joy when thou layest thy dear head on the block in the thought of this that thou art laying thy head to rest in thy fathers bosome which when thou dost awake shall be crowned not with an earthly fading crown but with an heavenly eternal crown of glory And be not discouraged when thou shalt see a guard of souldiers triumphing with their trumpets about thee but lift up thy head and thou shalt behold God with a guard of his holy Angels triumphing to receive thee to glory Be not dismayed at the scofs and reproaches that thou maist meet with in thy short way to heaven for be assured God will not only glorifie thy body and soul in heaven but he will also make the memory of thee to be glorious on the earth O let not one troubled thought for thy wife and babes arise within thee thy God will be our God and our portion he will be a husband to thy widdow and a father to thy children the grace of thy God will be so sufficient for us Now my Dear I desire willingly and chearfully to resign my right in thee to thy Father and my Father who hath the greatest interest in thee And confident I am though men have separated us for a time yet our God will ere long bring us together again where we shall eternally enjoy one another never to part more O let me hear how God bears up thy heart and let me taste of those comforts that support thee that they may be as pillars of marble to bear up my sinking spirit I can write no more Farewel farewel my Dear till we meet there where we shall never bid farewell more till which time I leave thee in the bosome of a loving tender hearted Father and so I rest Till I shall for ever rest in Heaven MARY LOVE August 21. 1651. Master Love to his Wife when he should have first suffered My dearest Beloved I Am now going to my long home yet I must write thee a word before I go hence and shall be seen no more It is to beg thee to be comforted in my gain and not to be troubled in thy loss Labour to suppress thy inward fears now thou art under outward sorrows as thy outward suffering● abound let thy consolations in Christ abound also I know thou art a woman of a sorrowfull spirit My time is short I have but a few words of counsel to give thee and then I shall leave thee to God who careth for thee and thine 1. Whil●s thou art under desertions labour rather to strengthen and clear up thy evidences for heaven than question them 2. Remember a faith of adherence or reliance on the Lord Jesus bring thee to heaven though thou want the faith of Evidence or Assurance 3. Labour to find that and more also in God which thou hast lost in the creature 4. Spend not thy days in heaviness for my death if there were knowledg of things below or sorrow in heaven I should grieve to think my beloved should mourn on earth 5. Lye under a soul-searching Ministry I know thou art not a spungy hearer to suck in foul water as well as fair God hath given thee a good understanding to be able to discern things that differ as the mouth tasts meat thy ear tryeth words 6. Be conversant in Christian meetings and much in the exercises of the duties of mortification in fasting and prayers yet have respect to the weakness of thy body and thy present condition 7. Have a care of thy self and babes God will take care for thee and them I can write no more farewell my Dear farewel farewel These are the last words written by Thy dying yet comforted Husband CHRISTOPHER LOVE From the Tower July 15. 1651. MY Dear I beg thee to be satisfied my heart is greatly comforted in God I can quietly submit to the good pleasure of his will and I hope thou dost so also I am delivered by the determinate counsel of God the will of the Lord be done Read for thy comfort when I am dead and gone Jer. 49.11 and the beginning of the 12. Isa 54. vers 5 6 7 8. Psalm 146. ver 9.2 Cor. 4. ver 17 18. Heb. 12. ver 6 7. Another of Master Loves to his Wife More dear to me than ever IT adds to my rejoycing that I have so good and gracious a wife to part with for the Lord Jesus In thy grief I have been grieved but in thy joy I have been comforted Surely nature could never help thee to bear so heavy a stroke with so much silence and submission to the hand of God! O dearest every line thou writest gladdeth my heart I dare not think that there is such a creature as Mary Love in the world for Kit and Mall I can think of them without trouble leaving them to so good a God and so good a Mother Be comforted concerning thy Husband who may more honour God in his death than in his life the will of the Lord be done he is fully satisfied with the hand of God Though there be but little between him and death he knows there is but little between him and heaven and that ravisheth his heart The Lord bless and requite thee for thy wise and good counsel thou hast prevented me the very things I thought to have written to thee thou hast written to me I have had more comfort from thy gracious letter than from all the counsel I have had from any else in the world well be assured we shall meet in heaven I rest till I rest in heaven Thy dying but comforted Friend CHRISTOPHER LOVE From the Tower the Lords Day Another of Master Loves to his Wife My dearest delight on Earth I Was fast asleep when thy Note came I bless God I break not an hours sleep for all my sufferings I know they work for me a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory I slept this night from ten at night till seven in the morning and never waked My Dear I am so comforted in the gracious supports God gives thee that my burdens are the lighter on my shoulders because they are not so heavy on thine or if they

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 PSAL. 112.6 The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance 〈…〉 To the READER Reader take notice THere are severall Letters published entituled Love's Letters pretended to have past between M. Love and his Wife Which Letters are not Printed by true and exact Copies having in them both more and less than they should have Now to prevent the like inconvenience for the future these Letters and Petitions are here published The publishing of which will I hope give no offence I am sure can give no just offence to any and if any shall take offence thereat certain I am they 'll take that which is not given them and that they cannot do unless they will be injurious both to themselves and others But whether offended or not offended I am not need not be sollicitous the rather for that I can truly say it is at as great a distance from any intention in the least to give offence as 't is from my apprehension to imagine that the publishing of these should give just offence to any The Petitions are some of those and those very affectionate ones which Mistris Love presented to the Parliament in the behalf of that blessed Saint and Minister of Christ her dear Husband Master Love and that either for the taking off the sentence of death which he then lay under and so wholly to remit it or if not that for his banishment and if neither of them for his reprieve till her delivery she being then big with child that so she might with greater hope and probability of safety both to her self and unborn babe undergo so sad and sore an affliction The Letters are some from Mistris Love to her husband which again occasioned others from him to her Now Master Love having his wife frequently with him in prison after his tryall was ordered had thereby opportunity as to open his very heart unto her in reference to his own estate and condition and the apprehensions which he had both of it and of his sufferings which accordingly he did to her exceeding great satisfaction and comfort so also to speak that to her that might be and that afterwards did prove to be a great means of her support under those trying and pressing afflictions with which she did encounter and upon that account did not and indeed did not need to write unto her so fully and largly as otherwise he would have done And yet these brief Notes of his for so they would rather be called than Letters which were not by him intended to be published do clearly and abundantly evidence what and how indeared his affections were both to his wife and children and will I doubt not be an answer sufficient to that charge of unnaturalness that is in print against him Though I may say as to those that knew him or have but the least degree of that charity that is called common remaining in them that unchristian charge and most malicious slander invented by the father of lyes himself with many more of the same Satanical production of that foul-mouth'd false-mouth'd Animadverter and impudent Detractour needs no answer And notwithstanding all that hath been said by that Doctor of the Chair of Scorners whose design seems to be to fright men more with the rabble of his words than with the reason of them the former being not more formidable than the latter feeble Master Love though dead yet is not dead for HIS GOOD NAME LIVES and the remembrance of it to the godly is and will never cease to be even to perpetual generations as a box of most precious and costly oyntment broken or poured forth the pleasant savour and sweet perfume whereof spreads it self every way even to the scattering and overcoming of all that noisome and unsavoury breath of reproach and calumny that by the sons yea and daughters too of slander with great indeavour would be but by no means whatsoever can be cast upon it and to the refreshing and reviving of every one who is within the reach of its fragrant and perfuming odour The other Letters are one from M. Jaquel to M. Love which Jaquel was one of the witnesses against him The rest from several of those Ministers who as to imprisonment were his fellow-sufferers which Letters do sufficiently demonstrate what their thoughts and apprehensions were of M. Loves sufferings and do all contain in them very precious and spirituall matter that may be of considerable use as in general to any that shall peruse them so especially to those who are or hereafter may be in a suffering condition Reader They are intended for thy benefit which that thou maist reap by them is the desire of The Publisher● To the Supreme Authority the PARLIAMENT of the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of MARY the distressed Wife of CHRISTOPHER LOVE Sheweth THat whereas the High Court of Justice hath lately sentenced to death her dear and tender Husband in whose life the life of your Petitioner is bound up in the execution of which sentence your poor hand-maid should become an unhappy widow and the miserable mother of two young fatherless children And she being so near to her appointed hour having sorrow upon sorrow be forced through unexpressable grief to bow down in travell and give up the ghost and so with one blow there be destroyed both Father and Mother and Babe in one day Yet her spirit is somewhat revived with the thought that there is hope in Israel concerning this thing when she considers that her humble Petition is this day presented before so many professing godliness who have tasted abundantly how gracious the Lord is and who through mercy are called of God to inherit a blessing and to be a blessing to the afflicted in the midst of the Land Therefore your distressed hand-maid throwing her self in all humility at your feet beseecheth you by the womb that bare you and brests that gave you suck in the bowels of the Lord Jesus Christ mercifully to interpose that this fatall blow may be prevented which act of compassion in you will be to your poor hand-maid as resurrection from the dead and not only all the tender-hearted Mothers in England but even the Babe yet unborn shall rise up and call you blessed and this will be to you a glory and crown of rejoycing in the sight of the Nation when the blessing of them that are ready to perish shall come upon you And your poor hand-maid humbly conceives That your mercy herein will be no danger to the

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