A true and exact copy of Mr. Love's speech and prayer, immediately before his…A true and exact copie of Mr. Love's speech and prayer, immediately before his…

A true and exact Copy of Mr Love's Speech and Prayer, immediately before his Death, on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill, Aug. 22. 1651.

A true and exact Copie of Mr Love's Speech and Prayer, immediatly before his Death, on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill, Aug. 22. 1651.

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 gazingstock to all; yet blessed be my God, not a terror to my self. Although there be but little between me and death, yet this bears up my heart, there is but little between me and Heaven. It comforted Dr Taylor 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. Methinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses, Go up to Mount Nebo and die there: So to me, Go 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 so, I am young, and yet I know the day of my death, and I know the kind of my death, and the place of my death also. I am put to 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; you have mention of the one in Scripture-story, and of the other in Ecclesiastical History. And I read in