LOVE. 115 succeeded him in the preacher's office, says,." he was always taken for an honest and a conscientious puritan.". His Wolts.-1. Directions for a Godly Life, especially for com- municating at the Lord's Table, 1628.-2. A Christian Amendment, a Sermonon New-years-day at St. Mary's Ch. in Ox. on 2 Cor. v. 17., 1633.-3. Dicta et facta Christi ex quatour Evangelistis collecta, et in ordine disposita, 1634.-4. Christian Wisdom, or the Excellency, &c. of true Wisdom, a Sermon on 1 Kingsx. 24., 1639.-5. A Sermon on Johnxviii. 3., 1640. CHRISTOPHER LOVE, A. M.-This person was the son ofMr. Christopher Love, born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire, in the year 1618,and educated at New-inn-hall, Oxford. He was the youngest child of his parents, and the son of their old age ; his mother, who was of a respectable family, was fifty years old when he was born. Though they never in- tended him for the ministry, theygave him a good education. From a child he was remarkablyfond of books; and though his parents were too indulgent to him, allowing him too great liberty for play and sinful recreations, he never neglected his learning. He felt greatly concerned forhis own improvement; therefore he devoted much of his time, both night and day, to his beloved studies. He was fifteen years of age before ever he heard a sermon. At this period, Mr. Erbery going to the town, he was induced through curiosity to hear him; and he, with some others, was greatly entertained with the novelty oiit. Although he went, as he used afterwards to observe, only to see a man in a pulpit ; yet, there God was pleased to meet with him, and, by that sermon, gave him such a sight of his sins and his undone condition, that he confessed he returned home, as he expressed it, " with a hell in his conscience." When he came to his father's house, being dead to all his former carnal pleasures and sinful pastimes, his father greatly wondered at the sudden change ; and, concluding him to be seized with some strange fit of melancholy, recommended him to asso- ciate and play with his old companions, but he refused. He could now take no pleasure in their company. His father sometimes advised him to go to gentlemen's houses, and attend his usual games ; but thevery thoughts of them were as daggers in his heart; therefore, he begged,to be excused. Mr. Love having fully relinquished the card-table, desired Wood's Athenge Oxon. vol. i. p. 72.-13iog. Briton. vol, vi. p. 4076.
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