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

CHAP. VI. The Application of the Doctrine.

THE last thing propounded in the method of this Subject, is the Use and Application of it, to bring it down to our own hearts, to work this truth upon our Minds, Consciences and Affections. And now, O that God would help me, and Christ would help me, and the blessed Spirit of God and Christ would so help me, and give me lively words, a lively Heart, lively and inflamed Love to blessed Jesus, and your immortal precious Souls! that I might speak and apply this great Truth, as becomes a man that death believe, every one of you before God in this Congregation this day must be Anathema, when Maran-atha, if you live and die void of love to Jesus Christ! as becomes a man that doth believe you must be blessed or cursed, damned or saved for ever, as you are prevailed with, or not prevailed with, to give Christ your Hearts, and hearty love! as becomes a man that doth believe your Everlasting Stare is much concerned in this one point that now is before us! Alas! Methinks I do foresee the great multitudes that this Anathema will fall upon. Methinks I see the Lord a-coming, methinks I hear the Trumpet sounding, and the Voice calling to the Dead, Arise, and come to judgment; Come ye cursed Souls that have been in the Infernal Lake, and appear before my Bar; come ye ⟨p. 76⟩cursed Bodies, awake, arise, and stand before my Judgment-Seat; and let those cursed Souls be again united to those cursed Bodies, and now be both cursed together, and cursed for ever, and let both be inseparably linked together to endure this Curse to all eternity. Methinks I see them coming, but unwillingly; they come, but with fear, and trembling; with horror, and amazement.

THE last thing propounded in the method of this Subject, is the Ʋse and Application of it, to bring it down to our own hearts, to work this truth upon our Minds, Consciences and Affections. And now, O that God would help me, and Christ would help me, and the blessed Spirit of God and Christ would so help me, and give me lively words, a lively Heart, lively and inflamed Love to blessed Jesus, and your immortal precions Souls! that I might speak and apply this great Truth, as becomes a man that deth believe, every one of you before God in this Congregation this day must be Anathema, when Maran-atha, if you live and die void of love to Jesus Christ! as becomes a man that doth believe you must be blessed or cursed, damned or saved for ever, as you are prevailed with, or not prevailed with, to give Christ your Hearts, and hearty love! as becomes a man that doth believe your Everlasting Stare is much concerned in this one point that now is before us! Alas! Methinks I do foresee the great multitudes that this Anathema will fall upon. Methinks I see the Lord a-coming, methinks I hear the Trumpet sounding, and the Voice calling to the Dead, Arise, and come to judgment; Come ye cursed Souls that have been in the Infernal Lake, and appear before my Bar; come ye