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The true and perfect speec [sic] of Mr. Christopher Love on the scaffold on…
The true and perfect speec [sic] of Mr. Christopher Love on the scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday last, being the two and twentieth day of this instant August, 1651. Comprising his funeral sermon; his exhortation to the citizen his propositions touching religion; and his prayer immediately before his head was severed from his body. Together with Mr. Gibbons his speech; and the manner of his deportment, carriage, and resolution: published for the good of the Common-wealth of England.The true and perfect speec [sic] of Mr. Christopher Love on the scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday last, being the two and twentieth day of this instant August, 1651. Comprizing his funerall sermon; his exhortation to the citizen his propositions touching religion; and his prayer immediately before his head was severed from his body. Together with Mr. Gibbons his speech; and the manner of his deportment, carriage, and resolution: published for the good of the Common-wealth of England.
London: printed by John Clowes, 1651London: printed by Iohn Clowes, 1651
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I could not be filled with so much tranquility and peace of mind, so much serenity and joy of spirit as now I am. I bless God, I am free from the blood of all men, they do to me as Nero did to the Christians, he set Rome on fire, and charged the Christians with it: they put England and Scotland in a fl•me, and l•y the charge upon me, which only the ambition and lusts of wicked men have kindled. Did I ever invite or encourage our English Army to invade Scotland? his I have done, and stand too, I have as a private man prayed to God, wherein I have besought him, that there might be an agreement between the King and the Scots upon interests of Religion.
I could not be filled with so much tranquility and peace of mind, so much serenity and joy of spirit as now I am. I bless God, I am free from the blood of all men, they do to me as Nero did to the Christians, he set Rome on fire, and charged the Christians with it: they put England and Scotland in a fl•me, and l•y the charge upon me, which only the ambition and lusts of wicked men have kindled. Did I ever invite or incourage our English Army to invade Scotland? his I have done, and stand too, I have as a private man prayed to God, wherein I have besought him, that there might be an agreement between the King and the Scots upon interests of Religion.
I was only at one meeting where such things were proposed, namely to promote the agreement between the King and Scots: I do declare against the Commissions as they called them, and it is an Act of high presumption and of notorious falsehood to say it was a plot of the Presbyterian party; it was the subtlety of a politic party to raise this thereby to make the Presbyterians odious, who are the best ordered persons for a Government in the World.
I was only at one meeting where such things were proposed, namely to promote the agreement between the King and Scots: I do declare against the Commissions as they called them, and it is an Act of high presumption and of notorious falsehood to say it was a plot of the Presbyterian party; it was the subtilty of a politique party to raise this thereby to make the Presbyterians odious, who are the best ordered persons for a Government in the World.