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Mr. Love's case
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. Far, 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 Tower Hill, August 22. 1651. Printed by an exact copy, taken in short-hand by John Hind. Fourthly, animadversions on the said speech and prayer.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.
London: printed for R.W. and Peter Cole, 1651
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Mr. Love's Speech made on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, August 22. 1651. › Section 17
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SECT. XVII.
I have only, now I am come to the third and last part of my Speech, and so I shall have done, and commit my Soul unto God who gave it, My Exhortation, it shall be to this great City; unto the Godly Ministry of it, and unto my own Congregation, from whom death hath parted me, which nothing else could.
I have onely, now I am come to the third and last part of my Speech, and so I shall have done, and commit my Soul unto God who gave it, My Exhortation, it shall be to this great City; unto the Godly Ministry of it, and unto my own Congregation, from whom death hath parted me, which nothing else could.
To the City, I wish an affluence and a confluence of all Blessings upon it; and yet I fear grey hairs, as the Symptoms of a Declension, are here and there upon it; yet she knows it not. O London, London! God is staining the pride of all thy Glory; thy Glory is flying away like a Bird; contempt of the Ministry; opposition against Reformation; general Apostasy; 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.
To the City, I wish an affluence and a confluence of all Blessings upon it; and yet I fear gray hairs, as the Symptoms of a Declension, are here and there upon it; yet she knows it not. O London, London! God is staining the pride of all thy Glory; thy Glory is flying away like a Bird; contempt of the Ministry; opposition against Reformation; 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.