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

where is thy love to these Souls empty of Saving-love unto thy Lord? Where is thy sorrow for want of their Love? Where are thy Bowels of compassion, to them that have no pity to themselves, in that they will have no love to Christ? Dost not thou know MARANATHA, the Lord will come? And art thou not sure, that then they will be ANATHEMA, under a bitter and an eternal Curse: Dost thou see how the Devil turned mens hearts from their Lord-Creator, and how he keeps their love from their Lord-Redeemer, for which the Devil insults over them, and wilt not thou be grieved for them? Blessed Jesus! I am ready to blame them, because they love not thee, and I do blame my self for want of grief in me; for want of love to thee. Methinks that Godly Parents should mourn, because they have a Child, or Children, that love not Jesus Christ, and say, What! they love us, but not the Lord! What pleasure can we take in their love to us, when they have none to Christ? Methinks the Children that have love to Christ, should weep, and bitterly lament, ⟨image 6⟩to be loved by their Parents, with a greater love than they have for Christ; and the Wife that is a Lover of Christ, should be filled with sorrow, that hath one so near, that is so far from loving of the only Saviour, and say, Alas! alas! MARANATHA, and then my Child, my Father, Mother, Husband, will be ANATHEMA. Weep then, weep, weep abundantly, for any in your House, among your Relations, Friends, Acquaintance, and Neighbours, that are not Lovers of Christ. Oh that your Heads were Waters, and your Eyes Fountains of Tears, that ye may Weep Day and Night, for these that Love not the Lord Jesus. How can ye go with dry Eyes, without Tears trickling down your Cheeks, one hasting to overtake the other, when ye behold Non-Lovers of Christ, and consider next, ANATHEMA MARANATHA? Oh! that ye had in some Wilderness a Lodging place of Wayfaring-men, or some retired corner in your House, that ye may leave your worldly Business for a while, and go from them, to wash your Faces in your Tears, that your dear Relations love not that Lord ⟨image 6⟩of yours, that is dearer to you than they are, or all this World besides. Take on most bitterly, when ye think how by them your dearest Lord is undervalued, and their precious Souls are endangered, by their not loving of him, for they must be ANATHEMA when MARANATHA. Alas, poor Loveless Souls!