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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. 23.
What M. Love gives in honour to his Congregation, I shall not take from them: Only what he gives unto himself in this kind, as, 1. That he should never have parted from them had not death parted them: 2. That he submitteth unto death with all Christian meekness, &c. I make some question whether he had right to give it, or no. For, he that had parted from one Congregation upon a far different occasion from that of death he speaks of; why might he not, his judgment remaining the same touching a lawfulness of parting, have parted from another, and another after that, upon a like occasion? Men may be confident of their present intentions and purposes: but to prophesy of their future, is to run an adventure. But whereas he professeth his submission unto death with all Christian meekness, I leave him to be judged out of his own mouth, in this very discourse, wherewith he hath avenged himself on his Judges, whom he calls his adversaries, to the uttermost.
What M. Love gives in honor to his Congregation, I shall not take from them: Onely what he gives unto himself in this kind, as, 1. That he should never have parted from them had not death parted them: 2. That he submitteth unto death with all Christian meeknesse, &c. I make some question whether he had right to give it, or no. For, he that had parted from one Congregation upon a far different occasion from that of death he speaks of; why might he not, his judgment remaining the same touching a lawfulnesse of parting, have parted from another, and another after that, upon a like occasion? Men may be confident of their present intentions and purposes: but to prophesie of their future, is to run an adventure. But whereas he professeth his submission unto death with all Christian meeknesse, I leave him to be judged out of his own mouth, in this very discourse, wherewith he hath avenged himself on his Judges, whom he calls his adversaries, to the uttermost.