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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. 21.
There is a red thread of revenge against the Parliament and State, struck quite thorough this fare-well piece of Mr. Loves to the world, from the very beginning to the end of it, visible enough (and indeed, too much) in every Section, which creates a sad jealousy with me, left his fi••s Architectonicus, his predominant end in his last address on earth, was to have the men in present Power under the hardest and most hateful ••••ment with the people, that he could imagine or devise. In many passages he hales in by head and shoulders such things, which a man cannot tell how or why they should come there, but only to asp•rse the State, and to envenom the spirits of the people against them. In these his Applications to the godly Ministry (as he terms it) of the City, he doth his best to ⟨p. 60⟩make them believe (for he affirms that he knoweth it) that they are maligned and threatened; and this the people must conceive to be by the State: yea, and the cause and ground hereof must be supposed to be for setting themselves against the sins and Apostasies of the times, for his faithfulness wherein he himself had procured ill will from men. Poor man! Doth he call his sin against God his high crimes and offences against the Parliament in his late and great miscarriages, for which himself confesseth (in his last Petition to the Parliament, as was formerly showed) that the Sentence of death was justly passed on him by the High-Court of Justice; doth he (I say) call sin against God, high crimes great miscarriages his faithfulness in setting himself against the sins and Apostasies of this present age? I confess if these were his faithfulness in that kind he speaks of, it was his faithfulness that procured him the ill-will of men. If such notions and conceits as these were the foundation of that abundant peace of his Conscience, and which he saith he hath with God, and with which he dieth, I fear he may be too truly compared to the foolish builder, who neglected the rock, and built his house upon the sand; which soon after fell, and great was the fall thereof. But to persuade the godly Ministers of his present address, (together with the people) the more effectually that they were certainly maligned and threatened, he will needs (upon this account) lift up a prayer for them, in the words of those Christians,