Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming

Fourthly, Love includes a sight of the communicability of that good that is discerned to be so suitable to the person that should love it: possibility of participation is necessary to the begetting or raising of the Affection; for while we see a Good, though every way suitable, yet if it be impossible to be obtained, we can have no hope of it, but ⟨p. 23⟩sink under despondency and despair; and though Love respects its Object without the circumstances of hard or easy to be obtained, but simply as good; yet that which is good in it self, but impossible to us, is not a good to us, because a good not to be possessed by us; and such a Good cannot be loved with such a Love as we ought to have to Christ, who is to be loved by us as good, and our good, or as attainable by us; for good as incommunicable to us so considered, may beget vexation, anguish and horror, but not complacency, which yet Philosophers make the formal reason of Love.

FOurthly, Love includes a sight of the communicability of that good that is discerned to be so suitable to the person that should love it: possibility of participation is necessary to the begetting or raising of the Affection; for while we see a Good, though every way suitable, yet if it be impossible to be obtained, we can have no hope of it, but ⟨p. 23⟩sink under despondency and despair; and though Love respects its Object without the circumstances of hard or easie to be obtained, but simply as good; yet that which is good in it self, but impossible to us, is not a good to us, because a good not to be possessed by us; and such a Good cannot be loved with such a Love as we ought to have to Christ, who is to be loved by us as good, and our good, or as attainable by us; for good as incommunicable to us so considered, may beget vexation, anguish and horrour, but not complacency, which yet Philosophers make the formal reason of Love.

1. And this I judge might be one reason, why there is no love in Devils to Christ, nor can be. Why? are not Devils under unexpressible horror? and would not deliverance be esteemed by them as a good suitable to them? Do they not know that there is no Saviour but Christ? why then do they hate him? why? the Benefits of Christ are not communicable to them. The Sufferings of Christ, tho sufficient to have redeemed all the Devils in Hell, yet were not ordained by God, nor endured by Christ for any such end, or with any such intention; Christ did not dye to make Salvation or Happiness possible for Devils, or finally-unbelieving-impenitent Sinners. Therefore, though they know Christ to be good, and freedom from misery would be suitable to them; yet this Good being incommunicable to them, they neither have, nor can have sincere love unto him. Hence it is they hate Christ with an implacable hatred, and oppose his Kingdom and Interest with the strongest opposition;