A88575:32
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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The humble Petition of Christopher Love, a Condemned Prisoner in the Tower of London;
SHOWETH,
SHEWETH,
That your Petitioner doth humbly adore the wonderful Goodness of God, and most thankfully acknowledge the great Mercy of the Parliament, for ⟨p. 5⟩so seasonable and acceptable an Act of Grace to such an offending Suppliant, that when there was but a step between him and death, the number of his days being accomplished, and he almost cut off from the Land of the living, then you mercifully interposed and gave him his Life for a month longer, which was to him as a Resurrection from the dead; The consideration whereof melteth the heart of your Petitioner, and makes him (after a more narrow search into his heart and ways) more deeply sensible then ever of his sin against God, and more sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament, in his late and great Miscarriages.
THat your Petitioner doth humbly adore the wonderful Goodness of God, and most thankfully acknowledge the great Mercy of the Parliament, for ⟨p. 5⟩so seasonable and acceptable an Act of Grace to such an offending Suppliant, that when there was but a step between him and death, the number of his days being accomplished, and he almost cut off from the Land of the living, then you mercifully interposed and gave him his Life for a moneth longer, which was to him as a Resurrection from the dead; The consideration whereof melteth the heart of your Petitioner, and makes him (after a more narrow search into his heart and ways) more deeply sensible then ever of his sin against God, and more sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament, in his late and great Miscarriages.