Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
(An excerpt from a letter by Christopher Love,
to his wife, on the morning of his execution)
My most gracious beloved,
I am now going from a prison to a palace!
I have finished my work. I am now to receive
my wages. I am going to heaven! Rejoice in my
joy. The joy of the Lord is my strength. O, let it
be yours also! Dear wife, farewell! I will call
you wife no more! I shall see your face no more!
Yet I am not much troubled; for now I am going
to meet the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to whom I shall be eternally married!
Your dying, yet most affectionate friend until death,
Christopher Love,
August 22, 1651, the day of my glorification!
to his wife, on the morning of his execution)
My most gracious beloved,
I am now going from a prison to a palace!
I have finished my work. I am now to receive
my wages. I am going to heaven! Rejoice in my
joy. The joy of the Lord is my strength. O, let it
be yours also! Dear wife, farewell! I will call
you wife no more! I shall see your face no more!
Yet I am not much troubled; for now I am going
to meet the Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to whom I shall be eternally married!
Your dying, yet most affectionate friend until death,
Christopher Love,
August 22, 1651, the day of my glorification!