A88596:16
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 die with my judgement not satisfied to take the engagement, God preserve those that refuse it: I would not in the next place be looked upon as owning this present Government, I die with my judgment against it: it was in the case of life, I did petition, giving them the titles as other men do. Husha gave the title to Absalom though David was the lawful King, Calvin gave a title to the French King Rex. Christianissimus, and we to Henry the 8th. st•ling him defender of the Faith, he had no right to the •itle, because given him upon an ill ground by the Pope for opposing the doctrine of Luther, which none did scruple afterwards to give him. In the last place, to provoke none my judgement is against the invasion of the English Army into the Scottish Nation that joined with us, I drew their swords in our quarrel; and now be […] they would not be a Commonwealth, they shall not be a people, because they would not lay their Consciences waste, their Land must be laid waste; I die cleaving to all those Oaths, Vows, and Protestations, and that solemn League and Covenant that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament, and I had rather die a Covenant keeper then live a Covenant breaker.
I die with my judgement not satisfied to take the ingagement, God preserve those that refuse it: I would not in the next place be lookt upon as owning this present Government, I die with my judgment against it: it was in the case of life, I did petition, giving them the titles as other men do. Husha gave the title to Absalom though David was the lawfull King, Calvin gave a title to the French King Rex. Christianissimus, and we to Henry the 8th. st•ling him defender of the Faith, he had no right to the •itle, because given him upon an ill ground by the Pope for opposing the doctrine of Luther, which none did scruple afterwards to give him. In the last place, to provoke none my judgement is against the invasion of the English Army into the Scottish Nation that joyned with us, I drew their swords in our quarrell; and now be 〈…〉 they would not be a Commonwealth, they shall not be a people, because they would not lay their Consciences waste, their Land must be laid waste; I die cleaving to all those Oathes, Vowes, and Protestations, and that solemne League and Covenant that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament, and I had rather die a Covenant keeper then live a Covenant breaker.