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 ſcaffold for a throne; and I might add a third, I am changing the preſence of this numerous multitude on Tower-hill, for the innumerable company of ſaints and angels in heaven, the holy hill of Zion; and I am changing a guard of ſoldiers for a guard of angels, which will receive me, and carry me to Abraham's boſom. This ſcaffold is the beſt pulpit that ever I preached in; in my church-pulpit, God through his grace made me an inſtrument to bring others to heaven; but in this pulpit, he will bring me to heaven.—Afterwards, he ſaid, Though my blood be not the blood of nobles, yet it is chriſtian blood, Miniſters blood, yea more, it is alſo innocent blood. I magnify the riches of God's mercy and grace towards me, that I who was born in Wales, an obſcure country, and of obſcure parents, ſhould be ſingled out an honourable ſuffering. For the firſt fourteen years of my life, I never heard a ſermon preached; yet in the fifteenth year of my life, it pleaſed God to convert me. Bleſſed be God, who not only made me a chriſtian, but alſo a Miniſter, judging me faithful and putting me into the miniſtry, which is my glory. I had rather be a Preacher in a pulpit, than a Prince upon a throne; I had rather be an inſtrument to bring ſouls to heaven, than that all nations ſhould bring tribute to me.— Formerly (ſaid he) I have been under a ſpirit of bondage; yea, ſometimes I have had more fear in drawing out a tooth, than now I have for cutting off my head. When fear was upon me, death was not near; now, when death is near to me, my fear is evaniſhed.—I am comforted in this, though men kill me, they cannot damn me; tho' they thurſt me out of the world, yet can they not ſhut me out of heaven. When I have ſhed my blood, I expect the full declaration of the remiſſion of ſins through the blood of Jeſus Chriſt. I am going to my long-home,