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

SECT. VII. The Sixth Requisite of Love to Christ.

Sixthly, This Love to Christ takes in the Permanent Volition of the Will, the settled Inclination of the heart towards the Lord Jesus Christ. For what else is Love, but the Volition of the rational Appetite? Or the Will's Volition of Good, apprehended by the Understanding. Or the Will's choosing of him, and adhering to him. Aversation of the Will from Christ, is no better than hating of him: For as Volition and Complacency is Love, so Nolition and Displicency is hatred.

SIxthly, This Love to Christ takes in the Permanent Volition of the Will, the setled Inclination of the heart towards the Lord Jesus Christ. For what else is Love, but the Volition of the rational Appetite? Or the Will's Volition of Good, apprehended by the Understanding. Or the Will's chusing of him, and adhering to him. Aversation of the Will from Christ, is no better than hating of him: For as Volition and Complacency is Love, so Nolition and Displicency is hatred.

Can a man Love Christ, and yet not Will him? Can he love him, and yet not choose him? Can he love him, and the Will refuse him? Was Nilling ever accounted loving? or turning of the Heart from an Object, ever taken for the closing with it? or is it not a contradiction? will not, and love not, is all one. John 5.40. Ye will not come to me— 42. I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. What is the Object of the love of the Heart, is the Object of the choice of the Will: and such as is the choice of your Wills, such are ye: If thy Will choose the World before Christ, I dare boldly call thee a worldly man; or Pleasures before Christ, I dare confidently declare thee a voluptuous man; but if Christ before all other things, I may term thee a truly gracious man.