A88579:157
A clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love,…A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love,…
A clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my trial before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Justice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawful invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Jury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.
London : s.n., Printed in the year 1651
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And being asked, whether I did not protest against it? he answered, that it was agreed by all that the Commission should not be sent.
And being askt, whether I did not protest against it? he answered, that it was agreed by all that the Commission should not be sent.
He being asked, whether he thought that I received the five pound he laid on my table? he answered no, but he thought another did receive it, and named who.
He being askt, whether he thought that I received the five pound he laid on my table? he answered no, but he thought another did receive it, and named who.
Thus you have an extract of all the eight Witnesses have deposed without extension or omission of any material passage in any mans Testimony. I wish from my heart that all the Depositions, together with my Defence made in Court, were truly published by an impartial hand, then I should be confident the Reader would justify me, though the High Court have condemned me. Being now upon the Testimony of the Witnesses I crave leave to insist a little larger upon it than I at first intended, that I may manifest the more clearly, the insufficiency, falseness, and contradictoriness thereof; what the Evangelist observes touching the accusers of Christ, I may without vanity say of mine, that they did not agree among themselves, one Witness sware one thing, and another sware the quite contrary, yea they did not only contradict •ne another, but sometimes contradict themselves, as I have made appear more fully in my defence before the high Court. I did never see Witnesses more confounded than they were▪ so that though their Testimony did condemn my person, yet I (nay themselves) have condemned their own Testimony; So that may I say, without vanity, that promise is made good,