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…

To the City I wish an Affluence and Confluence of all blessings upon it; and yet I fear grey hairs, as the sad symptoms of a declension, are here and there upon London, and yet she knows it not. O London, London, God is staining the pride of all thy Glory. Thy Glory is flying away like a Bird; Contempt of the Ministry, opposition against Reformation, General Apostasy, Covenant-breaking hath brought London low, and I fear will yet bring it lower; I tremble to think what evils are coming upon it: This City it is the receptacle of all Errors; that as your Commodities are vented and spread from hence into every corner of the Land, so have Heresies and Blasphemies had their first rise from this great and populous City, and from hence are spread into all Countries.

To the City I wish an Affluence and Confluence of all blessings upon it; and yet I fear gray hairs, as the sad symptoms of a declension, are here and there upon London, and yet she knows it not. O London, London, God is staining the pride of all thy Glory. Thy Glory is flying away like a Bird; Contempt of the Ministry, opposition against Reformation, Generall Apostasie, Covenant-breaking hath brought London low, and I fear will yet bring it lower; I tremble to think what evils are coming upon it: This City it is the receptacle of all Errors; that as your Commodities are vented and spread from hence into every corner of the Land, so have Heresies and Blasphemies had their first rise from this great and populous City, and from hence are spread into all Countries.

To the Inhabitants of this City I commend but these few particulars. First, Let me beg you to love your Painful and your Godly Ministers: If they be taken away you are like to have worse come in their rooms. I know the Presbyterian Ministers are the great eye-sore, who have formerly been counted the Chariots and Horse-men of Israel: But I will say of London (as was said of Leiden, That after Junius an Orthodox Minister was taken away, Arminius that pestilent Heretic came in his room.) If your Godly Ministers (and there have been ten already at one blow taken from you) if they be taken away, Arminians, Anabaptists, nay Jesuits are likely to supply their rooms, if God in mercy prevent not.