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

II. This doth teach us the evil nature of Sin, and what a cursed thing it is, as being the meritorious cause of all the Curses that befall any of the Creatures of God. If Sin had been kept out of the World, curses had never come into it: But Sin made way for the Curse, and brought it in; the commission of sin was the introduction of the Curse. Gen. 3.14. And the Lord said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. 17. Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Sin and the Curse are so linked together, that Christ only that can take away the Sin, can remove the Curse. Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. If Curses be heavy, Sin cannot be light; and if the Curses be great that are due to Sin, Sin that procures them cannot be so small a matter as the most make of it.

II. This doth teach us the evil nature of Sin, and what a cursed thing it is, as being the meritorious cause of all the Curses that befall any of the Creatures of God. If Sin had been kept out of the World, curses had never come into it: But Sin made way for the Curse, and brought it in; the commission of sin was the introduction of the Curse. Gen. 3.14. And the Lord said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattel, and above every beast of the field. 17. Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Sin and the Curse are so linked together, that Christ only that can take away the Sin, can remove the Curse. Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. If Curses be heavy, Sin cannot be light; and if the Curses be great that are due to Sin, Sin that procures them cannot be so small a matter as the most make of it.