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

6. To be Anathema when Maran-atha, will be to be cursed privatively; with the loss of God, of Christ, of Heaven, of the society of Saints and Angels, and of all the joys and happiness that God hath prepared for them that love him; shall then be openly cast out of God's Favour. You cast off ⟨p. 64⟩Christ, and that is your sin, and Christ will cast you off, and that will be your Curse. The love of your heart is not towards Christ, and that is your Sin; and God's Face and Favour shall not be towards you, and that will be your Curse. Can he be blessed that loseth God, that is our blessedness? Must not he be cursed that lies under the punishment of cursed Devils? Now you love not Christ, and yet you will be confident that you shall escape Hell, and obtain Heaven, and be blessed: But if you continue without Love to Christ, you will be shut out of Heaven; and where then? Do you know of any other place (whatever Papists dream) but Hell? and when out of Heaven, and in Hell, what a poor Blessedness will your groundless confidence bring you to.

7. To be Anathema when Maran-atha, will be to be finally accursed. While Christ doth tarry, if you are not in a good and blessed state one day, you might be another: Tho last Lord's-day you were in a miserable condition, yet this you may (and oh! that you might) be translated into a better: If not this, if you live till the next, you may be then; tho you should desire to get out of a cursed dangerous condition this day, before the next, for this day is yours, the next might be none of yours. But when Christ shall come, that will be the last day, and there shall not be a next: Therefore to be accursed that day, will be to be sent away with a Curse upon your Souls, without any succession of a Blessing.

When Christ was upon the earth, the last act he did relating to his Disciples, was an act of Love,