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A88579	A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3148; Thomason E790_5; ESTC R202748	58,288	49

Narrative confest against other men when before I did refuse to doe it To this also I shall give a brief yet satisfactory account it is true before I was condemned I would not accuse any man because then my testimony haply would be looked upon as valid in Law against them so that in that case I had rather lay downe my owne life than be instrumentall in taking away the life of another man I might have had my owne life given me for a prey would I have but informed against other men and so devoted their lives for a sacrifice to the bloody rage of men but ● still withstood it I then was and still am of this principle to judge it better to be a sufferer with the Brethren than an accuser of the Brethren especially when my accusation may turne in the least to their prejudice The reasons which swayed with me to name other men in my Narrative are these 1. Because my Testimony being a condemned man is not valid in Law and so can do them no harm as to Estate or Life 2. I do name those persons only who are already discovered and certainly known to those in power should I goe about to vindicate them I should do them no good and now I do nominate them I can do them no hurt 3. Most of the persons I have named have given me their Consent that I should name them so that themselves being Judges they thought I could do them no injury 4. Most of the persons I have named in my narrative have of their own accords confessed as much if not more than I have spoken concerning them yea before I have sent in my narrative for I am one of the last though my danger is the greatest they have sent in theirs and confessed against themselves more than I have mentioned in my narrative Thus I have spoken as briefly as the matter would permit to justifie the Title and Matter of my Petitions and the giving in of my Narrative This I doe because I would give no offence either to Jew or Gentile or the Church of God There are other scandalous aspersions and slanderous reports cast upon me which I must endeavour to satisfie the world about I have publikely made 3. solemne and true Protestations both on the first and last day of my appearing before the High Court of Justice the truth wherof I still stand to maintaine it is bruited abroad that both by the Testimony of the Witnesses and by my owne Confession I have contradicted my own Protestations which is most notoriously false I did therefore in the end of my Tryall declare that it was my rejoycing that though 8. Witnesses came in against me yet none of them did contradict or falsifie my 3. Protestations I had rather dye than any should make my glorying voyd yea I had much rather be made a Sufferer than a Lyar In going about to vindicate my self in these particulars I shall give you the reason why I made these Protestations because the Charge was so black and foule against me of corresponding with the King Queen Iermin and Piercy of raising great sums of Money for the Scots to maintaine a War against this Nation c. To remove prejudices from the minds of my Judges and of the hearers then present I did make these three Protestations the truth whereof I stand now to justifie and seal with my blood 1. The first Protestation I made before the High-Court was this viz. That I never writ any Letters either to the King of Scots or the Queen his Mother or to the Church or State of Scotland or to any particular person of the Scotish Nation since the beginning of the Warres between ENGLAND and SCOTLAND to this day This first Petition hath not been falsified either by the Testimony of my accusers or my own Confession None of the 8. Witnesses did prove that I ever writ a Letter yet I confesse I did write one to Massey in Scotland and another to Bamfield in Holland yet my Protestation is not falsified for they are both of the English not of the Scotish Nation though I did write to Massey who was in the Scotish Nation yet is he not of the Scotish Nation so my Protestation holds true 2. My second Protestation was this That I never received any Letters writ to me either from the King of Scotland on the Queen his Mother or the Church or State of Scotland in the generall or from any other particular person of the Scotish Nation from the beginning of the Warres between the two Nations to this day This Protestation is true also and hath not been contradicted by my own Confession or any of the Witnesses only Capt. Potter did swear That he received a Letter from Colonell Bamfield with a great L. on it and that there were enclosed Letters from 4 Scotish Lords and from Mr. Bayly a Scotish Minister He said in his Examinations before the Committee of the Councell of State That he conceived the Letter from Bamfield was writ to me but before the High-Court being on his Oath he could not say so nay he said he thought it was not writ to me nor can I imagine why Colonell Bamfield should write to me for I had never heard from him or writ to him before nor did I ever see his face But if Bomfields Letter with a great L. written on it had been writ to me yet my Protestation is not contradicted for Bamfield is an English man not a Scotch man Now my Proteftation was That I received no Letters writ to me from any of the Scotish Nation since the Wars began Moreover the Letters from the 4 Scotch Lords and Mr. Bayly the Scotch Minister which were enclosed in Bamfields Letter had not a great L. written on them as Bamfields Letter had and were not writ to me and had those Letters from the Scotch Lords and the Scotch Minister been written to me which they were not yet my Protestation is not falsified for Captain Potter received them opened them read them before he shewed them to me he kept them and carried them away as was confest in open Court but I did neither nor did I write an Answer to those Letters from the Scotch Lords or the Scotch Minister indeed I did write to Bamfield in Holland but he is of the English not of the Scotish Nation so my Protestation not contradicted My third Protestation was this That I never collected gave or lent ●ne penny of money to send into Scotland or any foreign parts either to the King Queen Church or State of Scotland or to any particular persons of the Scotish Nation since the beginning of the Wars unto this day As to these three particulars I have said it and doe say it againe I am as innocent as my harmlesse Child that is not 3 years old This third Protestation is true also though I did send 5 l. to one Bamfi●ld in Holland and 10 l. to Massey in

that encreaseth that which is not his c. We punish him with death who breakes open a house and robs but one Family but what a thousand deaths doth he deserve who breaks into a Kingdome and robbes many thousand Families even a whole Nation The Prophet Hab akkuk pronounceth A woe to him that builds a Town with blood and establisheth a City by iniquity Hab. 2. 12. What a woe then shall befall Cromwell that doth not build Townes with blood but destroys many Townes by blood but builds up none that doth not stablish a City but destroyes many Cities in ENGLAND and SCOTLAND by Iniquity 5. A fifth reason may be drawn from the Covenant and Treaties between the two Nations I begin with the Covenant so far as it concerns Scotland In the first Article we promise to endeavour the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government But Cromwells invading Scotland tends directly to the destruction of the reformed Religion in Scotland both in Doctrine by the many Heresies the Army spreads amongst them and in Worship by those who are above Ordinances and in Discipline and Government by those that are inveterate enemies to the Presbyteriall Government and are most of them for Independency or Anabaptisme Brownisme or Scepticisme c. In the third Article we promise to preserve the liberties of the Kingdoms But Cromwells invading Scotland brings England under guilt and Scotland under beggery and slavery In the fourth Article we promise That we shall endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or ev●ll Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the Kingdomes from another If these things be the brands that the Covenant puts upon Incendiaries Malignants or evill Instruments then is not Cromwell and his Faction the great Incendiaries Malignauts and evill Instruments who have hindred the Reformation of Religion nay blemished the very name and destroyed the very face of Religion and have they not divided the King from his people not only by interrupting his agreement with the Parliament and dividing him from them but by dividing his head from his body and have not they divided one of the Kingdoms from another and by this unjust invasion laid such seeds to dissentions and irreconcileable differences as are likely never to be healed yea so divided as never likely to be united together any more In the fifth Article it is said Where as the happinesse of a blessed peace between these Kingdomes denyed in former times to our pr●genitors is by the good provide●ce of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shal each one of us indeavour that they may remaine conjoyned in a firme Peace and Union to all posterity Let the world judge whether Cromwell and his invaders have endeavoured that the Kingdoms may remain in a firme peace and union to all posterity he was so far from endeavouring to have this Union kept to all posterity that he dissolved this Union within seven years after he promised to preserve this Union for he took the Covenant in the yeare 1643. and entred Scotland in a bloody Hostile manner in the yeare 1650. Thus you see Cromwells invasion of Scotland is repugnant to the whole scope and tenour of the Covenant it is contrary to the Articles of the Treaty between both Kingdoms for this is one among the rest That one Nation shall not wage war with each other but give three moneths warning before hand but Cremwell did not not give three dayes warning to Scotland before he invaded their Land 6. I may draw the sixth reason from the judgement of the Parliament when free and full they were still averse to any breach with and war against their Brethren of Scotland as knowing it would endanger the Protestant Religion and godly party in both the Nations I well remember the King called a Parliament here in England in April 1640. on purpose to raise money to carry on the Warre against the Scots but the Parliament utterly refused to grant any money to so ill a purpose and did all they could to disswade the King from the Warre with Scotland publiquely protesting against the War as dishonourable and dangerous to Religion and both Kingdomes whereupon through the designes of the Prelates and Popish party that Parliament was dissolved within 10 dayes after it was called Although the dissolving that Parliament was a great grief of heart to all the godly in this Nation yet it was a rejoycing that the Parliament refused to engage in the War of Scotland After this there were publique Thanksgivings throughout all England enjoyned by King and Parliament for the Pacification between England and Scotland If the wisdome of the Parliament in the year 1640. judged it unlawfull to wage War against Scotland upon the sollicitations of the King and Bishops because they would obtrude Popish Ceremonies upon that Nation may not we judge it much more unlawfull to wage War with Scotland to bring Blasphemies Heresies and Slavery upon them and that after we have had a Brotherly assistance from them and have entered into Covenant with them There are l●●●e pretences to justifie the War with Scotland in the year 1650 by Cromwell than in the year 1640. when the King intended to wage war with them 7. A seventh Reason may be drawn from the intollerable mischiefs sad consequences and unexpressible calamities likely to befall the Protestant and Covenanting party in the 3. Kingdoms the mischiefs and sad consequences of Cromwells invading Scotland I shall reduce to 8. heads 1. The War with the Irish Rebels is by this means neglected and lengthened out had Cromwell staid in Ireland and had but one half of the Souldiers he hath now in Scotland in all likelyhood the Irish Wars had been ended long before now the Rebels destroyed and the English had had a quiet and peaceable possession of that Land But Cromwell through the counsell of the Pope King of Spaine and the Iesuites had rather fight with the Protestant covenanting party in Scotland than with the Rebels of Ireland 2. By this means most grievous and burdensome Taxes are continued and increased I shall mention one thing which to the vulgar may seem incredible viz. That the Iuncto at Westminster have by the Excise Customes Sequestrations and Taxes received more money in one year than all the Kings of England put them all together since the Conquest did raise upon their Subjects for such a space of time yet the Kings called Oppressors and these called Saints c. 3. A totall eradication of the Presbyteriall Government in both the Kingdoms Presbytery is the But at which the Prelates of old and the Sectaries of late have shot their invenomed Arrows 4. A great indangering of all the Protestant Churches and States in Europe The Kingdomes of England and Scotland make up the greatest

according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them and I will make my self knowne amongst them when I have judged thee c. It is in Scripture record accounted a more deplorable judgment to have Nations of the same Religion and under the same Government to wage War one with another than to have a War with any other Nations whatsoever read 2 Chron. 15. 5 6. Nation shall rise against Nation that is the Kingdome of Israel against the Kingdom of Iudah who were of the same Religion and also under the same Government during the Reignes of Saul David Solomon and part of Rehoboams so in 2. Chron. 28. 9 10. per totum many instances out of Scripture might have been produced to suggest to you how unwarrantable a thing it is for Cromwell with his English Army to invade spoyle and lay wast their poor Brethren of Scotland We are commanded Zech. 7. 9. 10. ●o shew mercy and compassion every man to his neighhour oppr●sse not the Widdow nor the Fatherl●ss nor the stranger nor the poor and I t●none imagine ev●ll against his Brother in your heart and the reason may be drawn from Mal●chy 2. 10. Have we not all one Father hath not one God created us Why doe we deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaxing the Covenant of our Fathers I have no more to say in this matter but will say of Cromwell though he may prosper for a while against the people of God yet I may say of him as God did of J●hojakim Tkine eyes and thi●e heart are not but for thy covetousnesse and for to shed innocent bloud and for oppression and for violence to do it therefore thus saith the Lord They shall not lament for him saying ah my brother or ah my sister they shall not lament for him saying ah Lord or ah his glory he shall be buried with the buriall of an ●sse c. Ier. 22. 17 18 19. I am in the next place to give some reasons to prove the unlawfullnesse of the invasion of our Brethren of SCOTLAND I shall lay down a few considerations whereby you may see the evill nature and dangerous consequence of this War First This Warre with Scotland is worse than the former war intended against Scotland in the year 1640. it is worse in many regards 1. The First war was called Bellum Episcopale this may be called Bellum Haereticale if I may so say the first War would have brought in Popish ceremonies this War brings in damnable Heresies and hellish blasphemies by the first they would have scrued up Monarchy into Tyranny by this they will pull down Monarchy and turne all to Anarchy 2. This War in the year 1650. is worse than that intended about the yeare 1640. because then we were not under so many Covenants and Engagements one towards another as now we are Cromwell invaded them after a Covenant and Articles of Agreement for assistance made with them after help and Brotherly assistance received from them yet he hath forgotten the Brotherly Covenant with them and all the kindnesses we have had from them in the day of out deep distresse Thirdly This war hath not such an Authority as the former had the first was raised by the King and his Councell this by Cromwell and a Faction Fourthly the Souldiers many of them doe behave themselves worser than the Souldiers the King and Bishops did raise against the Scots at first the Kings Soldiers were but ignorant and prophane these many of them Hereticks and Blasphemers those did pull down Crosses and Pictures these pull downe Ordinances those drunk with Wine or Strong Drink but these drunk with Error having a spirit of gyddinesse and contradiction against the Truth which is the worst sort of drunkennesse Fifthly far worse in the event also in the Kings and Bishops war not above 14 slain one both sides but in this war Cromwell with a more cruel and bloody minde hath most barbarously slaine at least 10000 of the Scotish Nation since he entered Scotland oh the bloody cruelty of this man 2. A second reason may be taken from the time when Cromwell invaded them it was not when Scotland was over-run with malignity during the time of Hambletons prevalency but it was when the power of that Kingdome was in the hands of the most Religious and Covenanting Party in Scotland after Hamblitons Army was destroyed and Montrosse defeated and the godly party who managed the cause of God for these 14 years faithfully had all the power of that Kingdome in their hands then Cromwell invaded them which to me is an evident Demonstration that the invasion of Scotland was by the instigation of Jesuites and the Papists Party to root out the Protestant Party in ●cotland and to bring their persons in vassalage and thraldome as to their civill Liberties 3. A third Reason may be drawn from the slight grounds Cromwell had to invade Scotland because they would not be a Common-wealth therefore they shall not be a People because they will not break their Covenants therefore Cromwell will break them because the● will not lay their Consciences waste he will lay their land waste and make it desolate because the Scots are for a Scripturall Presbytery and a well-regulated Monarchy for found doctrine and the power of godlynesse therefore it is that Cromwell is so much their Enemy Whatever els may be pretended ●et these were the true grounds why Cromwell and the rest of the Iesuited Spanish Faction did invade the neighbour Nation 4. A fourth reason may be taken from the wicked ends Cromwell aims at in his invading Scotland viz. merely to satisfie his ambitious and covetous desires to be absolute Lord of the Estates Liberties and Lives of all the people in these 3. Nation it doth not content him to have one Kingdome viz. Ireland for Ireton his Son nor another Kingdome viz. England for himself but he must have Scotland also His end is as was that of the Children of Ammon invading Israel in Amos 1. 13. That they might inlarge their borders his end and the end his Souldiers aim is like that of the Chaldaeans that bitter and hasly Nation to march thr●ugh the bredih ●f the Land to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs his end is like that of M●unt Seir who said ●hese two Nations and these two Countreys shall be mine and wee will passesse them So saith Cromwell these two Nations and these two Countrves viz. England and Scotland shall be mine and I will possesse them nor will all this content him he seeks to be an universall Monarch like that Ch●ldaean Monarch in Hab. 2. 56. He is a proud man neither keepeth at home who exlargeth his desire as hell and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all Nations and heapeth unto him all people but shall not all these take up a taunting proverbe against him Woe to him

Body of the Protestant Religion in Christendome being best able to defend themselves and succour other Reformed Churches when indangered and designed to ruine by Popish Enemies therefore the discountenancing of the Covenanting party in England and the ruining of them in Scotland is the readiest way to indanger conquer ruine all other Reformed Churches in the World and how will this imbolden and encourage Popish Adveraries to invade and ruine the Protestants whiles they see England and Scotland who make up the greatest Body of the Protestant Religion in Christendome engaged in an un-Brotherly and un-Christian War between themselves and weakning impoverishing and destroying each other 5. Cromwells invasion of Scotland is an extraordinary ground of joy to the Pope and all his Confederates Had the Conclave of Rome plotted together they could not wish a more happy and hopefull designe to advance the interest of Rome and Catholick Religion that doth more glad and gratifie the Popish party than to see the Protestant party in England and Scotland ruining one another I have read a very remarkeable story of a great Politician in France that is Cardinal Richelieu That a little before his death be left Instructions and advice with the late French King that he would use his utmost endeavour to foment the late differences between the King of England and the Parliament and if it were possible by the sollicitations of his Instruments to draw the House of Commons in England to change their Government from a Kingdome into a Common-wealth by which means England and Scotland would be imbroyled in warres one against another which is the onely and best policy of all to weaken and destroy the Protestant Religion and advance the interest of France and Catholique Religion The truth of this story is asserted by an Italian of good note and credit and published by him and Printed in Italy anno 1645. I shall say no more touching this particular but only this that I doe verily beleeve Cromwels invading Scotland in the year 1650. makes it a year of Iubilee in Rome but a year of slavery to England and Scotland and a year of sorrow to all the Protestant Churches round about us which puts me upon the next sad consequence of this war viz. 6. It will be and is a great grief and sadning to all Protestant States and Churches round about us when they consider how we who have lived under one King united in one Covenant ingaged in one and the same Quarrell that we should ruine and destroy one another and that with such bloody rage and cruell hatred as we doe what a grief is it to them to consider that we who might have been their he●pers are our own destroyers neither able to assist them abroad nor defend our selves at home 7. It will lay lasting foundations of irreconcileable discord between the two Nations That we who were the dearest Friends will be to each other the greatest Enemies 8. There will be a toleration of all Heresies and Blasphemies in the Church and an increasing of all oppression and violence in the State These two usually goe together Iudges 5. 8. They chose new Gods then was there War in their Gates These with manifold more inconceivable mischiefes are likely to arise by reason of Cromwels groundlesse and unwarrantable invasion of our neighbour Nation The last work I have now to doe about this vindication of my self is to take off some aspersions and slanders unjustly laid upon me 1. Some report that I am under great fears of death that much terror and trembling laies hold upon me To which I say That through the sence of the pardoning mercies of God through the blood of sprinkling the bitternesse fear and sting of death is much abated that I am delivered from the fear of death to which all the former part part of my life I was subject unto bondage I speak it without vanity to the praise of Gods glorious grace I formerly have had more feare at the pulling out of a Tooth than now I have at the thoughts of the cutting off my head I mention it to the praise of God who supported me the hearing of the Sentence of Death pronounced against me in the Court did no whit dismay me I had as much calmnesse and quietnesse in my minde at that very ho●●e as ever I had in all my life yea since I have been condemned I blesse God I have not had one troubled thought nor broke one hours rest nor forborne one meals meat yea the very night before I was to suffer I supt as heartily and slept as sweetly as ever I did in all my life the hopes I have of an eternall life doth swallow up the fears of a temporall death 2. Objection But you confesse you have sinned therefore you are put to death for your sinne Sol. I have indeed and I ought to confesse my sinns against God so condemne my self and justifie God acknowledging that I have sinned and he is righteous in all that is come upon me so that it is just with the most high to cut me off in the midst of my dayes and in the midst of my Ministry but yet I never said that I had sinned against God in the particular facts for which that cruell sentence was past upon me I say still as I did at the Bar when I received the sentence of death that God did not condemne me when I was judged that neither God nor my own Conscience did condemne me of sin I have transgressed their bloody Lawes it is true yet not broken any command of God in so doing they have sinned in making such Lawes not I in breaking them I am far from thinking that I have sinned in what I have done to desire the King might agree with the Scots upon the interest of Religion and the terms of the Covenant to relieve that gallant Gentleman Major Generall Massey to pray for and endeavour after the good of the Godly in the neighbour nation of Scotland who are Brethren in Covenant with us I count all this my duty not my sinne yet I deny not but as infirmities doe cleave to my duties so in the way of mannagement of this businesse inadvertency indiscretion and too much opennesse might cleave to these actings of mine but that the thing it self was evill that I never have never shall confesse 3. Object Some are not ashamed to say that I am a debaucht person that I have been guilty of uncleannesse Sol. This I declare in the sight of God is most abominably false as Luther said of himself That he was not tempted to covetousnesse so through the grace of God I can say it without vanity or falshood I have not been tempted to uncleannesse I know no ground of this report but this that on Easter-day night last was six yeare one of my name Master Edward Love a Chaplain in the Army was questioned before Justice Rich dwelling about Chancery Lane for being found in bed