The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

8. And lastly, It is a sin utterly inconsistent with the presence of any ⟨p. 240⟩one grace in the soul; it being impossible, that any thing should prosper, where this weed hath once settled and rooted it self; yo• may as well expect to find branches without a Root, as the graces of the Spirit without love: Thus very briefly you have an account of the danger of being without love to Christ, from the nature of the sin.

8. And lastly, It is a sin utterly inconsistent with the presence of any ⟨p. 240⟩one grace in the soul; it being impossible, that any thing should prosper, where this weed hath once settled and rooted it self; yo• may as well expect to finde branches without a Root, as the graces of the Spirit without love: Thus very briefly you have an account of the danger of being without love to Christ, from the nature of the sin.

2. I argue it from the Terror of the Punishment: And certainly the Just God hath proportioned the evil of this, to the quality of that. Study well these few places of Scripture, Joh. 3.19. Mat. 21.41. Heb. 2.3. & 10.28, 29. & 12.25. Rev. 2. & 3. throughout. Oh the terrors of the Lord, that will one day be heaped upon the haters of his Son! See