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

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; Mat. 8.29. And behold they (the unclean Spirits) cried out, saying, ⟨p. 24⟩What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come to torment us before the time? As if they had said, There is no good that we look should come by thee to us; we expect no Salvation, no Deliverance from our Pain and Misery; Thou art a Saviour to men, but not to us; Thou wilt have nothing to do with us in a way of mercy, and we have nothing to do with Thee, by any hopes of Redemption through thy Mediatory Undertakings; men on Earth might have to do with Thee, and therefore have cause to love Thee, and thou art come into the World to have to do with them, to seek them, and to save them: they may have Thee for a Redeemer, and a Saviour, but so may not we: They are fallen, and by Thee might be restored; but we are fallen, and must lie where we fell, without hope, without a possibility of recovering; there is no doing betwixt Thee and us for Heaven and Salvation; no dealings betwixt Thee and us for Life and Happiness; none of thy Sufferings are to be for us; Thou art not come to offer us any terms of Mercy, or to make any Propositions of Peace betwixt God and us, and therefore our recovery is impossible; and therefore being fallen, do lie down in utter despair of any communication of the Benefits of thy Death and Sufferings unto us;

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 horrour? 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;