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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

Conscience being honest and good and rightly informed Whereas Mr Love suffered a beheading if for the discharge of his Conscience which I think to considering men must needs be very questionable yet was it for the discharge of an erroneous conscience as his Petitioners themselves pleaded by way of extenuation of his Crime yea indeed of a conscience so desperate erroneous and corrupt that the like conscience hath scarce been heard of no not among the Heathen themselves much less among Christians viz. That a man stands bound in stead of being subject to the Powers that are which is the express Commandment of God to destroy or practice the destruction of these Powers So that Mr Love's conscience for which as he saith he suffered being truly interpreted was such a conscience by which he judged himself bound to act in a Diametral opposition to the plain and express revealed Will of God And whether such a conscience as this be a Christian foundation of Martyrdom let Mr Love 's greatest Friends judge Concerning Paul and the Saints spoken of in the Revelation they were beheaded for the Word of God and for the testimony of Iesus Whereas Mr Love as himself acknowledged in his Narrative written with his own hand and delivered unto the Parliament was to suffer beheading in case he should not obtain pardon from them for his sundry and great Offences confessing withal that by what he had done he was an object of their just displeasure and again that by their justice they might in one day leave a Flock without a Shepherd a Wife without an Husband Children without a Father c. Doubtless neither Paul nor the Saints mentioned by M. Love were objects of the just displeasure of those who beheaded them nor were they beheaded for their sundry and great Offences nor yet by the justice of those who punished them with death Therefore M. Love being partaker with Iudas in his sin the cause of his death can reap no honor for having Iohn or Paul or the Saints his companions in the kinde of his death And indeed might he not as well yea and much better all this duly considered have prophesied of shame and dishonor likely to acrue unto him by such a kinde of death which had been frequently inflicted upon Papists Priests and Iesuits for treasonable practices against the State and Supream Rulers thereof as indulge himself with a conceit That his death must needs become a Crown of Honor unto him because Iohn Baptist and the great Apostle Paul died the same kinde of death though as the world knoweth upon far different occasions ANIMAD upon Sect. 2. In this Section Mr. Love busieth himself in washing a Blackamoor hoping by that time he hath done to make him as white as Snow That he suffereth for the Word and Conscience and not for medling in State-matters he proves 1. Because it is an old guise of the Devil to impute the cause of Gods Peoples Sufferings to be Contrivements against the State 2. Because the Rulers of Israel would have put Jeremy to death upon a Civil account whereas the true ground was the truth of his Prophesie and that this made them angry with him 3. Because Paul though he did but preach Christ yet the people would have him dye under a pretence that he a was mover of Sedition 4. And lastly because himself saith That his Life is pretended to be taken away upon a Civil account whereas it is indeed because he pursueth his Covenant will not prostitute his Principles c. Light and darkness have in a maner as much communion between them as the three first of these Arguments with his Cause For is any guise of the Devil whatsoever a Demonstration or proof of Mr. Loves Innocency or that he must needs suffer for the Word and Conscience and not for Statizing out of his Sphaer Who is able to finde out the Quadrature of this Circle Or must Mr. Love needs be innocent of the Crimes charged upon him and proved against him because Ieremy and Paul were innocent from those Imputations which without any proof at all were charged upon them Or must those Magistrates who being persons of known godliness and worth at least a great part of them yea and Mr. Loves real and cordial Friends most of them upon Tryal found Mr. Love guilty and passed Sentence upon him accordingly must these I say of necessity be Corrupt Malicious Enemies to the Truth and Word of God because the Rulers of Israel with whom Ieremy had to do and the people with whom Paul had to do were of no better Principles or Temper Certainly neither Satan nor Ieremy nor Paul nor their Adversaries are any Legal or Rational Compurgators for Mr. Love in his Cause now in Agitation Indeed if he or any Advocate for him could as substantially prove as he confidently asserts that which follows in the fourth place viz. That his life was pretended I suppose he would rather have said intended though neither would be very proper to be taken away because he pursues his Covenant and will not prostitute his Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men this would amount somewhat near to a Proof of his Conclusion But alas for him to affirm such things as these not onely without any sufficient yea or tolerable proof or colour of proof but even against his own Concessions and Confessions in his Narrative specified under the former Section wherein he pretends over and over to Ingenuity proves nothing else but that either he wanteth ingenuity or the knowledge of his own heart or both when he spake § 4. thus God is my record whom I serve in the Spirit I speak the truth I lye not I do not bring a revengeful heart to the Scaffold this day c. I marvel what the man means by a revengeful Heart Rancor bitterness of Spirit Animosity c. Surely he is a Barbarian unto me and speaks a Language which I understand not To charge Ingenuous and Conscientious men with taking away his life because he pursues his Covenant will not prostitute his Principles and Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men with much more of like strain of which afterwards is in my understanding as pregnant as express a Symptome of a revengeful Heart Rancor c. as a person in his condition is lightly capable of Can saith Bildad in Iob the Rush grow without mire Or is it possible that such virulency and viperousness of words as those should proceed from any other Principle but from an heightned spirit of Rancor Bitterness and Revenge But what Article in Mr. Loves Covenant was it for his pursuit whereof his Life was taken from him Is there was there any such Article in this Covenant by which he stood in conscience bound to trinket with the declared and professed Enemies of the State and Nation to attempt the undermining or disturbing of the present Government here by Correspondencies and Communication of Councels with Forreign States

Or was it for any thing else but such accursed Practices as these and that proved against him by many witnesses yea and confessed in his Narrative by himself that his Life was taken from him When I compare those Passages in his Narrative which he would it seems have looked upon as a Masterpiece of Ingenuity wherein he owns the Iustice of the Parliament confesseth himself an Object of their just displeasure craves pardon for his sundry and great Offences c. with the words lately mentioned and many others of like strain in the sequel of this Speech wherein he justifieth himself in the highest makes himself a Saint in what he had done a Martyr in what he should suffer chargeth his Judges and the State with persecuting him for the Word of God his Conscience for not prostituting his Principles and Conscience to their Ambition and Lusts with several other expressions of a like Hellish import I cannot but stand amazed at the searedness and debauchery of the Conscience of the man or how it should ever enter into his heart to think of being honorable in his death who thus notoriously and desperately prevaricated with his own former ingenious Confessions at the time of his death Either let one or other of his Friends or Advocates name what Principle it was one or more for the non-prostitution whereof to the ambition and lusts of men he was adjudged to death and make it good that it was for such a non-prostitution that he was thus adjudged or else the world shall have ground in abundance to believe That Mr. Love acted the part of a most Unchristian Calumniator upon the Scaffold in the very approaches of death ANIMAD upon Sect. 3. Here we have the second part of the Theatrical flashy flourishes of Mr. Loves confidence But strange it is that such virulent and desperate calumnies as he had breathed out from his soul in the words immediately preceding should be seconded with such confidential raptures and gloryings as these Is the exercising of revenge upon his enemies the rise and bottom of Mr. Loves confidence in God Doubtless Mr. Love here sacrificed to an unknown God But the copyhold of his confidence hath been touched already whereas he assumeth unto himself the honor of having been an Instrument in the Church-Pulpit of bringing others to Heaven it is well if he stretcheth not himself beyond his line Whether he hath brought any to Heaven or no I know not possibly it may so be But certain I am that of later times he hath brought many to some Hellish practises The several happy changes which here he promiseth unto himself I could with more liberty of Faith have believed might be performed unto him had he not so lately made that unhappy change of an humble Penitentiary and Confessor of his sin into an haughty and stubborn justifier of himself and calumniator of other men How his Speech upon the Scaffold should bring glory to God in any other sence then that wherein in the Apostles phrase The lie of men aboundeth to his glory I understand not I hear that one who was present at it openly said That there was more Divinity in Canterburies death then his or words to such an effect and that another having heard the said Speech brake out in these or the like words Lord have mercy upon us what shall we say or do when men will or dare tell lies at their death ANIMAD upon Sect. 4. In this Section we have a most worthy and Christian Profession as far as the interest of words can lightly contribute towards it O that there had been an heart in the Professor to have given a real account of Truth in this his verbal Profession But alass The same Fountain though not out of the same hole which sends forth these sweet Waters here sends forth most bitter Waters elsewhere as we have tasted in part and may taste further afterwards Doth Mr. Love think that either God or men will judge such a man to be free from all rancor all bitterness of spirit a revengeful heart that he hath forgiven from his heart his worst enemies c. Who loveth all words that may do them mischief who cuts them with his Tongue as with a sharp Razor who spits out of his mouth the poyson of Aspes in their very Faces and at the time of his going out of the world is more intent and bent in his spirit as far as a reasonable estimate can be made to leave them an inheritance of Hatred Ignominy Trouble and of all maner of mischiefs and evil intreaties from the world then upon any other design whatsoever whereas he seems desirous to disparage his Enemies as he calls them in comparison of himself in this That though they denied mercy unto him yet he had begged mercy for them and though they would not forgive him yet he had forgiven them the truth is That even this also is no better then a slander For upon what ground could he judg That they had not as well begged mercy for him as he for them Or did they therefore deny him mercy or not forgive him because they executed the Laws of God with the execution whereof they were entrusted I believe they forgave him in such a sence as he forgave them and if so they forgave him much more then he them I presume Mr. Love forgave them onely such debts as they had contracted by injuring him not what they had contracted by sinning against God If so then all that Mr. Love forgave them amounts to nothing at all and this by his own confession a little before who acknowledged the Justice of their proceedings against him Therefore if they forgave him as I presume in charity they did the debt which he had contracted by injuring them their forgiveness of him was much more Christian and worthy then his of them But the forgiveness of the debt which he had contracted by sinning against the Laws of God the just Laws of the Land so acknowledged by himself the peace of the Nation the lives of other men by the non-execution of Justice he had no reason to expect at their hands considering that they are the Ministers of God to take vengeance on them that do evil Rom. 13. 4. ANIMAD upon Sect. 5. If Mr. Love may be his own Judge nothing capital was sufficiently proved against him Allow him his own sence of the words capital and sufficiently and possibly he may be innocent But the High Court of Justice though a great part I think I might say the greatest of the Members of it were very real friends to him and their hearts much set to have holpen him out of the bryars as far as Justice and a good Conscience would give way were not of Mr. Loves minde touching his Innocency yea Mr. Love in his Narrative was not of the same minde in this point with himself here How he came by so much Innocency between the time of his exhibiting

general Apostacy Covenant breaking hath brought London low and I fear will bring it lower I tremble to think what evils are coming upon it This City it is the Receptacle of all Errors That as your Commodities have been vented and spread from hence into every corner of the Land so hath Heresies and Blasphemies had their first rise from this great and populous City and spread into all the Country SECT XVIII To the Inhabitants of this City I commend but these few Particulars First Let me beg you to love your painful and your godly Ministers if they be taken away you are like to have worse come in their rooms I know the Presbyterian Ministers are the great eye-sore who have formerly been counted the Chariots and the Horsmen of Israel But I will say to London as was said to Leyden That after Junius was taken away an Orthodox Minister Arminius that pestilent Heretick came in his room if your godly Ministers as there are ten already at one blow taken from you if they be taken away Arminians Anabaptists nay Jesuits are like to supply their rooms if God in mercy prevent not Secondly Submit your selves to Church-Government that would lay a curb and restraint upon your lusts it is a golden and an easie yoke to which if you do not submit God may lay an heavier an iron yoke upon your necks SECT XIX Thirdly Take heed of those Doctrines that come under the Notion of New Lights I have judged that those Doctrines you ought to suspect whether they be true when the brocher of them saith it is New for Truth it is as old as the Bible A remarkable passage I would suggest unto you in Deut. 32. it is said there They chose them new gods that were newly sprung up what were these new gods the next words tell you they were old devils they sacrificed to devils not to God Now their Sacrificing to the old Devil it was called a Sacrificing to deceive the People to new gods that were newly come up new gods they were but the old devils So I say of many of those things that go under the notion of New Lights it is but old darkness old Heresies raked out of the Dunghil which were buried in former ages in the Church with contempt and reproach many hundred years ago Again SECT XX. Fourthly Bewail your great loss that you have in the taking away of so many Ministers out of your City there are ten Ministers if I mistake not that are taken away and removed in one blow those who were burning and shining Lights in their several Candlesticks and bright Stars in their several Orbs though I am not worthy of the world therefore I am taken out of it yet as for my suffering Brethren who are now in Bonds and Banishment the world is not worthy of them Again in the next place take heed how you be forward in ingaging in a War with your godly Brethren in the Scotish Nation for my part I have opposed the Tyranny of a King but I never opposed the Title take heed what you do SECT XXI I have something in the next place to speak to the godly Ministery of this City were it not that I were a dying man I would not speak to such reverend and grave men I would as Elihu being but a yong man I would say Multitudes of years should teach wisdom and I would hold my tongue but the words of a dying man take whether they be discreet or no or so well ordered and managed or no for them I would first desire God to shew them mercy they that have begged for mercy for me at the day of my death I will beg but this of them That as they have not been ashamed of my Chain so they would now wax confident by my Bonds and by my Blood I know they are maligned and threatned yet my Prayer is for them that in Acts 4. 29. Now Lord behold their threatnings and grant that thy Servants may Preach thy word with all boldness Though I am but yong yet I will offer my yong experience to my grave Fathers and Brethren and that is this Now I am to dye I have abundant peace in my own Conscience that I have set my self against the Sins and Apostacies of this present Age It is true my faithfulness hath procured me ill will from men but it hath purchased me peace with God I have lived in peace and I shall dye in peace That which I have to beseech of the Ministers is this To beg them to keep up Church-Government Whatsoever God doth with the Governments of the world turning Kingdoms upside down yet the Government of the Church will stand And of all Governments I dye with this perswasion That the Presbyterial Government makes most for Purity and Vnity throughout the Churches of the Saints I would beg them therefore to keep up Church-Government That they would not let their Elderships fall That they would take heed of too general Admissions to the Lords-Supper That they be not too prodigal of the Blood of Christ by too general Admissions of men to partake of the Supper that Sealing Ordinance And now I am speaking to them I shall speak a word of them and so I have done SECT XXII I have heard many clamors since I came to Prison as if that Plot which it is called that I am condemned for as if all the City Ministers they were engaged in this Design which as a dying man I tell you That all the Ministers that were present at the meeting and had a hand in that business for which I am to be put to death all those Ministers they are either in Prison or they are discovered already and therefore I do here upon my death free the Ministers of the City That those who are not yet in trouble nor discovered to the Committee of Examinations none of them had a hand in that business in which I was ingaged in which my conscience doth tell me I have not sinned SECT XXIII I have now I have done immediatly for I would fain be at my Fathers house but a word to speak to my own Congregation and I do return praises unto God and thanksgiving unto him for the love I have had from them I found them a solid and a judicious people and many of them Religious The Ministery of that learned man Mr. Anthony Burges did much good amongst them though I have cause to be humbled my weak Ministery did but little they afforded me a great deal of love and a liberal maintenance And this is all I desire of them That they would chuse a godly learned and an Orthodox Minister to succeed it would be a great comfort to me before I go to Heaven if I had this perswasion that a learned Orthodox godly man should fill that Pulpit And for encouragement to any godly Minister whose lot it shall be to succeed me I will say this to him That he will have as

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

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