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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 19
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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 broacher 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 Dunghill, which were buried in former ages in the Church, with contempt and reproach many hundred years ago. Again,
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,