A88575:77
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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Mr. Love's Speech made on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, August 22. 1651. › Section 1
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SECTION I.
Beloved Christians, I am made this day a Spectacle unto God, Angels and Men, and among men I am made a Grief to the Godly, a Laughingstock to the wicked, and a Gazing-stock to all, yet blessed be my God not a Terror to my self, although there be but a little between me and Death, yet this bears up my heart, there is but a little between me and Heaven. It comforted Doctor Tailor the Martyr when he was going to Execution, that there were but two Styles between him and his Fathers house; there is a lesser way between me and my Fathers house; but two steps between me and Glory, it is but lying down upon the Block, and I shall ascend upon a Throne: I am this day sailing towards the Ocean of Eternity, through a rough Passage, to my Haven of Rest; through a Red-sea to the Promised Land. Me thinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses, Go up to Mount Nebo and die there, so go thou up to Tower-hill and die there. Isaac said of himself that he was old, and yet he knew not the day of his death, but I cannot say thus: I am young, and yet I know the day of my death, and I know the kind of my death also, and the place of my death also; it is such a kind of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me, John the Baptist, and Paul the Apostle, they were both beheaded; ye have mention of the one in Scripture Story, and of the other in Ecclesiastical History: And I read in the 20th of the Revelation and the 4th, The Saints were beheaded for the Word of God, and for the Testimony of Jesus.
BEloved Christians, I am made this day a Spectacle unto God, Angels and Men, and among men I am made a Grief to the Godly, a Laughingstock to the wicked, and a Gazing-stock to all, yet blessed be my God not a Terror to my self, although there be but a little between me and Death, yet this bears up my heart, there is but a little between me and Heaven. It comforted Doctor Tailor the Martyr when he was going to Execution, that there were but two Styles between him and his Fathers house; there is a lesser way between me and my Fathers house; but two steps between me and Glory, it is but lying down upon the Block, and I shall ascend upon a Throne: I am this day sayling towards the Ocean of Eternity, through a rough Passage, to my Haven of Rest; through a Red-sea to the Promised Land. Me thinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses, Go up to Mount Nebo and die there, so go thou up to Tower-hill and die there. Isaac said of himself that he was old, and yet he knew not the day of his death, but I cannot say thus: I am yong, and yet I know the day of my death, and I know the kinde of my death also, and the place of my death also; it is such a kinde of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me, John the Baptist, and Paul the Apostle, they were both beheaded; ye have mention of the one in Scripture Story, and of the other in Ecclesiastical History: And I read in the 20th of the Revelation and the 4th, The Saints were beheaded for the Word of God, and for the Testimony of Jesus.