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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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ANIMAD. upon Sect. 16.
It seems by the Contents of this Section, that Mr. Love's Principles stood ⟨p. 54⟩fair for the Invasion of the English Nation by the Scottish Army, but fell foul upon the Invasion of the Scottish Nation by the English Army. This he declares against: unto the other he is silent, as consenting to it. All the world may hereby see, that his Principles were calculated according to the exigency of his Interest and Faction, and not for the service of Righteousness and Truth. For was not the Scottish Nation joined in the same Covenant with the English, wherein the English was joined with the Scottish? If not, the English made a very sorry Bargain in covenanting with the Scottish. If so, then suppose the Grounds and Reasons for the one Invasion and the other, had been but equal or the same, and that the English could give no better an Account otherwise of their invading (as Mr. Love is pleased to clothe a smooth Action with a rough garment) the Scottish Nation, then the Scottish are able to give of their invading England; yet the English Invasion of Scotland is much more justifiable or excusable, then the Scottish of England, in as much as the Scottish were first in the Provocation. But (as hath been lately proved) the sending of an Army by the English into Scotland, is every ways justifiable, warranted by the judgements and decisions of the best learned in the Civil Laws, who are very competent Judges in the Cause, being altogether unrelated unto the persons or Nations; Whereas there hath not yet been (nor indeed can there be) any tolerable Account given of the Scottish Invasion of this Nation: Besides what hath been formerly said, to take off whatsoever may seem unjust or hard, in the sending of an Army into Scotland by the Parliament of England, two things further may here be added: First, that presently after the Execution of the late King, they (the Scottish Nation) proclaimed their own King, King of England. Secondly, not content with this Usurpation over this Nation, they engaged themselves further to assist him in his Acquirement of the English Throne. So that when the English Army went into Scotland, there was no such thing in being as that Covenant between the two Nations, which Mr. Love speaks of; the Scottish having before this broken it in pieces, and trodden it under their feet, and so had absolutely disobliged the English from the bands or terms of it.