A88575:271
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. 29, 30.
In these two Sections Mr. Love commends by Prayer, both himself and his own Soul, as all others whom he judged it meet to pray for, unto God. In a great part of this Prayer, and of the particular Requests made therein, I apprehend nothing but what is savoury and Christian. I trust that these words towards the latter end of this prayer, Lord hear, pardon all his infirmities, wipe away his iniquities by the blood of Christ, &c. carried in them an implicit Repentance, both of that sin against God, of those high Crimes, and late great miscarriages against the Parliament; for which (as himself a few days before this Prayer, confessed) he was justly condemned, as likewise of all those most untrue, bitter and Unchristian invectives uttered against the Parliament and State in this Speech upon the Scaffold, together with all the rest of the sins of his life. And when in his last Petition, he prayeth to be received by God, pure, and spotless, and blameless before him in love: I trust he prayed not to be received by God as any other person, then what he really and in truth was; and consequently, That he was blameless in love. If so, then was that spirit of spleen and Unchristian bitterness, by which he spake so many unseemly things against those, who little deserved it at his hand, in the foregoing Speech, by this time vanished and gone out of him; And indeed it was now high time to cast him out, because there had been no entrance for Mr. Love into his Fathers house (he speaks of) in his company: When he saith, That he had made God his Hope and his Confidence from his youth up, I wish that his heart did not deceive him; It is not lightly possible that men should labour so in the fire, as Mr. Love did, to promote or uphold a carnal and worldly Interest, who truly make God their Hope and Confidence. As in his zeal for God, and for the bringing of the souls of men to heaven, he was equalized, if not exceeded by the Jews in Pauls days, and by the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviours, (who compassed Sea and Land to make one Proselyte) so was he also in his glorying or boasting in God. Foundations, not Buildings or Superstructions, are the great Oracles in Religion to be consulted about the Spiritual Estates of men.