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<P>M^r^. LOVE His Funeral SERMON, PREACHED By him&s;elf on the Scaffold on Tower Hill, in the hearing of many thou&s;and peo|ple, on Friday the two and twentieth day of this in&s;tant Augu&s;t.</P>
<P>Divided into three parts;
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<ITEM>1. The Matter for which he &s;uffered,</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Cleering or Ju&s;tifying of him&s;elf.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. His Exhortation to the People.</ITEM>
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<P>WITH His Prayer immediately before his head was &s;evered from his body; and other Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages about his Death.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed for general &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>Robert Wood,</HI> 1651.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_BEfore I enter upon the &s;ub&s;tance of Mr <HI>Love</HI>'s la&s;t Sermon or Speech up|on the Scaffold, thou art to take no|tice of the Parliaments lenity, in re&s;pi|ting his Execution near upon 6 weeks after the time fir&s;t limited or appointed for him to &s;uffer. During which time (though much means was u&s;ed to &s;ave his life by others) him&s;elf continu|ed in his former way of ju&s;tification of his own in|nocency, notwith&s;tanding the te&s;timony of 8 Wit|ne&s;&s;es at his trial, again&s;t whom could be no excep|tion. So that for his own part in &s;tead of u&s;ing lau|dable means to pre&s;erve his life, he rather (to out|ward appearance at the lea&s;t) did chu&s;e to die without without giving reall &s;atisfaction to the world, that it was not as well to &s;atisfie his own ob|&s;tinate will, as ju&s;tly to &s;uffer the &s;entence renoun|ced again&s;t him.</P>
<P>On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> la&s;t the Parliament ordered that Mr. <HI>Love</HI> &s;hould be no longer reprieved, and that the High Court of Ju&s;tice &s;hould have notice of this order, whereupon the High-Court of Ju&s;tice met on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> &s;igned warrants. for his execution on <HI>Fryday</HI> following, between the hours of twelve at noon, and &s;ix at night.</P>
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In pur&s;uance of which Warrants, the Lievte|nant of the Tower this pre&s;ent <HI>Friday</HI> being the twenty two of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> delivered him to the Sheriffs of <HI>London</HI> at the Tower Gate, from whence being accompanied along by Mr. <HI>Calomy,</HI> he came to the Scaffold on the <HI>Tower</HI> Hill; and being upon the Scaffold, after he had &s;aluted many friends there|on, he turned him&s;elf to the people, and leaning over the Rayle among&s;t others, he uttered the&s;e words following.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. LOVE his Funeral Sermon, or an ab&s;tract of his la&s;t words upon the Scaffold on Tower Hill immediately before his Execution on Friday the twenty two of Au|gu&s;t, 1651.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Beloved,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BEfore I lay my Neck upon the Block, I &s;hall &s;ay &s;ome thing concerning the occa&s;ion of my coming hither as you &s;ee this day. Then he &s;aid he &s;hould divide that which he had to declare into three parts.</P>
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Fir&s;t, touching the matter for which he &s;uffer|ed.</P>
<P>Secondly, the cleering of him&s;elf.</P>
<P>And thirdly, The di&s;charging of him&s;elf of all kind of ranker or hatred again&s;t any; with &s;ome Exhortations to the people.</P>
<P>He per&s;i&s;ted in the &s;ame way as he was in dure|ing his Tryall, taking God to record, That he wrote no <HI>Letters,</HI> or gave direction for any to be written; Yet it was proved, and acknowledged by him&s;elf, That he did &s;ee <HI>Letters</HI> written, and was privy to their &s;ending away.</P>
<P>He likewi&s;e called God to Record, That he collected no money for the <HI>Scots</HI> de&s;ign; yet was there money collected and laid down before him, and afterwards &s;ent away: and if this kind of equivocating can cleer him of the guilt, let any indifferent man judge; yet he &s;aid there was not any one thing prooved again&s;t him which was capital.</P>
<P>He in&s;tanced many Scriptures, and com|pared him&s;elf by way of Innocency, to Ie|remiah, &s;aying, That he was as guiltle&s;&s;e as that Prophet who was charged (though in another ca&s;e) with Con&s;pirancy. He &s;aid it had been the lot of many of the Saints of God to be beheaded, and freely forgave all his pro&s;ecutors, &s;aying, That the wor&s;t he wi&s;ht to any of them, was, That their &s;oules might meet him in heaven.</P>
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Mr, <HI>Love</HI> al&s;o &s;aid that the Scaffold was the be&s;t Pulpit that ever he preached in, in all his life; for that from thence he &s;hould not de&s;cend but a&s;cend and mount up into heaven.</P>
<P>One thing more very ob&s;ervable is that although he denied compliancy with the Scots by writing or &s;upply of money; yet he confe&s;&s;ed that he had both written to Major Gen. <HI>Ma&s;sey,</HI> and &s;ent money to him.</P>
<P>He exhorts the people in a general way, to the &s;ervice of God, and &s;o concluded with this prayer. Mr. <HI>Love</HI> having ended his &s;peech or &s;er|mon, began his prayer &s;tanding at the rail thus.</P>
<P><Q>O Lord God I thy unwor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hy creature being at the la&s;t g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;p of breath do here humbly pro|&s;trate my &s;elf unto thee hoping in the merits of Je&s;us Chri&s;t my Saviou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d Redeemer that thou wilt have mercy on m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be&s;eech thee not onely for my &s;elf but for him that is to die with me, and I hope my prayers will prevail as our &s;aviour did for the theef upon the Cro&s;&s;e, and that thou wilt be &s;o mercifull to us, that we may both meet in thy eternal Kingdome I do here declare as a dying man that I have always been for magi&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">acy and government, and do humbly       be&s;eech thee that thou wilt not lay to the charge of this people their &s;lightning of the
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 98 -->Mini&s;try of the Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and trampling down his Mini&s;ters, I do freely from my &s;oul forgive all the world, as I de&s;ire God for Chri&s;ts his &s;ake to forgive me.</Q></P>
<P>Much more to this effect was uttered by him; and his prayer being ended, he imme|diately began t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> unbutton the collor of his Doublet, and turning about, came to the Sheriff, bowed very low to him, and &s;haking him by the hand, took his leave of him: He then laid his hand, upon the Executioner, &s;aying, Friend, I forgive thee. Then his Doublet being off, he put up his hair under his Cap, and at once &s;ettling him&s;elf down on the Block, he pre&s;ently (without rai&s;ing him&s;elf again) gave the &s;ignal, with which the Executioner &s;evered his head from his body at one blow.</P>
<P>His body was pre&s;ently taken up, and put into a Coffin ready prepared, and carried to his own hou&s;e: Mr. Dun the Chirurgian went with it, and afterwards &s;owed the Head to the body.</P>
<P>After th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s Mr. Gibbons was brought upon the Scaffold, he was about four or fi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve and twenty years of age, and he for|merly
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 99 -->had been &s;ervant to Mr. <HI>Hollis,</HI> he made a &s;peech to the people confe&s;&s;ing and &s;aying, that he had been mi&s;led by wicked councellors, and &s;eemed very pen|nitent and &s;orrowful that he had fal&s;ly be|trayed his tru&s;t; he made many &s;tops, the tears trickling down his c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eek<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, he made this confe&s;&s;ion of his henious crime and guilt, (as he &s;aid) to clear his con&s;cience, and to the end that the world might take notice thereof, and take warning, and that no a&s;per&s;ion fall on him&s;elf or or others after his death. He took notice of Mr. <HI>Loves</HI> being executed before him, and &s;aid, that he was confident he was with his Saviour, with whom he had &s;ure and con|fident hopes to be within few minuits: Yet towards the conclu&s;ion of his &s;peech, &s;ome words pa&s;&s;ed from him which &s;a|vored of ranckor, for which he was gent|ly admoni&s;hed by the Shreiff, and when had made an end of his &s;peech he made a &s;hort prayer, recommending his &s;oul into the hands of Je&s;us Chri&s;t and &s;o commit|ted him&s;elf to the block.</P>
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