Christopher Love 1/2 (8 of 18, Introduction and Overview of the Puritans) Who Were the Puritans? What Did They Teach? The Relevance of Puritanism For Christians Today by Dr. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)

Christopher Love 2/2 (9 of 18, Introduction and Overview of the Puritans) Who Were the Puritans? What Did They Teach? The Relevance of Puritanism For Christians Today by Dr. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)

"Let mortification be especially directed to strike at those sins that act your master sins - that are most prevalent and predominant in your heart, that yet you have most prayed against and are least able to resist, that strongly assault you and most easily beset you and are masters over you." - Christopher Love (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"If preaching of terror is legal preaching, then the law was more preached in the New Testament than ever it was under the Old. I make it appear thus: There are more terrible and dreadful doctrines scattered up and down in the New Testament than in the Old. It is a note of Chrysostom that in all the Old Testament the word damnation was never used, but it is used thirteen times in the New. And it is observable further that in the Old Testament, though the word hell is often used, yet it is most commonly used for the grave and not for the place of the damned. But in the New Testament, except in two places, hell is altogether taken for the place of the damned, Acts 2:27 and 31. Therefore it is clear to every eye that the gospel is more backed with terror, and with the doctrines of hell and damnation, than ever the law was. The preaching of the law has only "Anathema," but the gospel has "Maranatha" also. Therefore, all those who are of that seducing antinomian error that cry down pressing duty such as preaching the law greatly deceive themselves, for Christ Himself and the apostles and evangelists all preached more terror than any of the prophets ever did."

 - Christopher Love (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

Christopher Love was an famous Welsh Protestant preacher, Covenanted Presbyterian and faithful martyr of of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was murdered by Oliver Cromwell's henchmen in 1651 (Oliver Cromwell is sometimes referred to as the "Judas of the Solemn League Covenant" as he first swore the Solemn League and Covenant and then not only proceeded to break every point of that faithfully constructed covenant, but he also persecuted many of the Covenanters who remained faithful to this solemn, biblically-based covenant with God -- imprisoning some of the most faithful Presbyterian preachers in England at that time, most notably Thomas Watson). Thomas Manton preached Love's funeral sermon, in spite of the fact that Cromwell's soldiers had threatened to shoot him if he did so. Christopher Love was a superadded member of the Westminster Assembly, according to the The History of the Westminster Assembly by William Hetherington.