Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I am currently reading Don Kistler's (pictured above) biography of Christopher Love; in the following extract, Mr. Kistler explains why this Puritan only sang the Psalms in worship:
Christopher Love was a Covenanter. One of the things that makes them unique is their commitment to exclusive psalmody, and their strict keeping of the Sabbath. In other words, Covenanters will sing only the divinely-inspired psalms of Scripture in their worship services, and they sing them without musical accompaniment. Since God wrote the psalms, they reason, why sing hymns written by fallible men?
D. Kistler, A Spectacle Unto God: The Life and Death of Christopher Love, p. 90