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

8. To be Anathema when Maran-atha, will be to be accursed without an appeal to any higher Court, or superior Judge, for such none is. If it were the last thing that Christ would do to them, yet if they could remove their Cause, and have an Hearing in another Court, and before another Judge, they might hope the Curse may be repealed, the Sentence whereby they are declared accursed, might be changed, and their sad condition altered for the better; but this cannot be, for all Judgment is committed to the Son, John 5.22. And all men must stand or fall, live or dye, be damned or saved, according to the Sentence that Christ shall pass upon them. 2 Cor. 5.10. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one might receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. And in the description of the Process of the day of Judgment, we find, without appeal to any other, the Execution shall certainly follow; and those whom Jesus shall pronounce blessed, shall go into Eternal Life; and those whom he shall declare accursed, shall go ⟨p. 66⟩into Everlasting Punishment. Mat. 25.43: Come ye blessed of my Father—. Vers. 41. Depart from me, ye cursed—. Vers. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.

8. To be Anathema when Maran-atha, will be to be accursed without an appeal to any higher Court, or superior Judge, for such none is. If it were the last thing that Christ would do to them, yet if they could remove their Cause, and have an Hearing in another Court, and before another Judge, they might hope the Curse may be repealed, the Sentence whereby they are declared accursed, might be changed, and their sad condition altered for the better; but this cannot be, for all Judgment is committed to the Son, John 5.22. And all men must stand or fall, live or dye, be damned or saved, according to the Sentence that Christ shall pass upon them.