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

But if our Love is predominantly placed upon any thing below Christ, all the Powers of the Soul are debased; the Reason of man is degraded in contriving the getting of such ignoble and sordid enjoyments as his highest end; the Will is debased in choosing of them, and the Memory in being stuffed with the remembrance of them, forgetting God ⟨p. 74⟩and Christ, and better things; so that a man is more a brute than a man, without sincere Love to Christ.

But if our Love is predominantly placed upon any thing below Christ, all the Powers of the Soul are debased; the Reason of man is degraded in contriving the getting of such ignoble and fordid enjoyments as his highest end; the Will is debased in chusing of them, and the Memory in being stuffed with the remembrance of them, forgetting God ⟨p. 74⟩and Christ, and better things; so that a man is more a brute than a man, without sincere Love to Christ.

7. Love is the end of all other Graces, and in which they terminate their Operations. Our knowledge of Christ endeth in our loving of Christ, our believing on him, hoping in him, trusting to him, like so many streams, at last run into the Love of Christ.

8. Love is the Everlasting Grace that shall abide and be in use and exercise, when the actings of other Graces shall cease. There are some Graces suitable especially to our state of imperfection in this world. To live by Faith, to Repent, and Mourn for sin, to live in hope of the glory that is to be revealed, to wait till we be possessed of the Mansions that are above, to desire all the good that is promised to us, but not yet conferred upon us.