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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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The third and last part of my Speech is with a word of exhortation to this great City; and then I commit my soul to God that gave it. I have wished it both affluence and confluence of all happiness: London, London, God is staining the pride of all thy glory, contempt of the Ministry, opposition against Reformation hath brought London low, and I fear will yet bring it lower. I tremble to think what •vils are coming upon it for as Commodities have been spread from hence into all the corners of the Land, so Heresies and Blasphemies in all parts of this Nation have their rise from hence; first let me beg you to love the painful and godly Ministers if they be taken away; you are like to have worse come in their room; Ministers are now the great eye sores, when before counted the Chariots and Horse-men of Israel. After Junius was taken away, Arminius that pestilent heretic came in his room: Anabaptists, Arminians, nay Jesuits are like now to spread •pace. Submit to Church government that would lay restraint upon your lusts. A golden yoke if not submitted to, God may lay an iron yoke upon you; Take heed of those Doctrines that come under the notion of new lights, when the brothers thereof say it is new, it is to be questioned whether they be true. In 3•. Deut. •7. it is said, there they sacrifice• to Devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to now gods that came newly up: their new gods, what were they but old Devils▪ many of those things going under the notion of her ••ghts, are but old darkness raked out of the dunghill of error that hath been •ast out, and by the Church buried with reproach. 4. Bewail the great less you have of the taking away your Ministers, already ten Ministers at once, those burning and sl•ining lights in their particular Candlesticks, and bright Star•es in their several Oaths, though I am not worthy of the world, yet I am take• ou• of it; but as for my suffering Brethren, which are under bonds and banishments in the world, of them the world is not worthy. Take heed of engaging the Wae with […] friends, I have opposed the Tyranny of a King, but I never opposed the