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

Arg. 5. He that hath no love to Christ, hath no faith in Christ; he that hath no faith in Christ, is condemned; he that is condemned, is in a miserable cursed condition; therefore he that doth not love Christ, is so. Sound Faith, and sincere Love, are inseparable Graces. Those that are Non-Lovers of Christ, are Unbelievers, and Unbelievers are condemned men. Joh. 3.18. he that believeth on him, is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Oh pity your Children, your Parents, your Friends and Neighbours, that love not Christ; for being destitute of Love, they are void of that Faith that is a condition of Salvation; and being void of that, are condemned Persons.

Arg. 6. Those that have not sincere love to Christ, are in the same condition in which they were born; and you all say that is an accursed damnable condition; For by nature all are children of wrath, Eph. 2.3. and Children of wrath are cursed Children. Some are so ignorant, as to say, they have loved Christ ever since they were born, as if they were born with love in their hearts to Christ; whereas love to Christ is not in us by the First Birth, but by the Second; not by the Natural, but by the Spiritual Birth. Our State by Nature is a State of bitterness and bonds; as bitter as gall, Act. 8.23. And while you are in a State of Nature, the World hath your Love, and Sin hath your Love, therefore Christ is not the Object of it; for the World and Christ, Sin and Christ, ⟨p. 50⟩cannot at the same time, by the same man, be superlatively loved: It must then be granted that you were born without love to Christ; and being in the same condition in which you were born, you have lived hitherto without love to Christ; and add but a third, that you die without love to Christ, and then the next moment after death you will see, and say, your Condition is accursed.