A88575:148
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 27
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I have now done; I have no more to say, but to desire the help of all your prayers, that God would give me the continuance and supply of divine grace to carry me through this great work that I am now to do; That I, who am to do a work I never did, I may have a strength that I never had; That I may put off this Body with as much quietness and comfort of mind, as ever I put off my clothes to go to bed. And now I am to commend my Soul to God, and to receive my fatal blow: I am comforted in this, though men kill me, they cannot damn me; and though they thrust me out of the world, yet they cannot shut me out of Heaven. I am now going to my long home, and you are going to your short homes: but I will tell you, I shall be at home before you; I shall be at Heaven, my Fathers house, before you will be at your own Houses. Now I am going to the Heavenly Jerusalem, to the innumerable company of Angels, to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant, to the spirits of all men made perfect, to God the judg of all; in whose presence there is fullness of joy, and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
I have now done; I have no more to say, but to desire the help of all your prayers, that God would give me the continuance and supply of divine grace to carry me through this great work that I am now to do; That I, who am to do a work I never did, I may have a strength that I never had; That I may put off this Body with as much quietness and comfort of minde, as ever I put off my clothes to go to bed. And now I am to commend my Soul to God, and to receive my fatal blow: I am comforted in this, though men kill me, they cannot damn me; and though they thrust me out of the world, yet they cannot shut me out of Heaven. I am now going to my long home, and you are going to your short homes: but I will tell you, I shall be at home before you; I shall be at Heaven, my Fathers house, before you will be at your own Houses. Now I am going to the Heavenly Jerusalem, to the innumerable company of Angels, to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant, to the spirits of all men made perfect, to God the judg of all; in whose presence there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
I shall conclude.