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

Who is there among you all, but hath innate Desires to escape the Curse of the Great God? or can you desire to be accursed by him? Who is among you that hath not innate desires to be happy and blessed for ever? or can you fling away, or shake off ⟨p. 82⟩all desires of being blessed? you might as soon cast off the Nature of men. A Profane Esau cried out for a Blessing, Gen. 27.34. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 36. — And he said, hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Who is there among you all, but hath innate Desires to escape the Curse of the Great God? or can you desire to be accursed by him? Who is among you that hath not innate desires to be happy and blessed for ever? or can you fling away, or shake off ⟨p. 82⟩all desires of being blessed? you might as soon cast off the Nature of men. A Prophane Esau cried out for a Blessing, Gen. 27.34. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 36. — And he said, hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Oh then say, Be gone, O cursed Sin! be gone; I will banish thee out of my heart: for thou art not only contrary to the Nature of the blessed God, nor only contrary to Innocent Nature, but even also to my Humane Nature, though corrupted. Thou art not only opposite to a Principle of Grace implanted in the New Creature, but to the Principles which God in mercy hath left in my Corrupt Nature, that cursed Sin might be opposed, striven against, and for ever abandoned by me. I would be blessed, but thou wilt make me cursed; I would avoid the Curse, but thou wilt bring it upon me. If I cannot be a wilful Sinner, but I must be a cursed Creature, I would rather cease to be such a Sinner, than to remain for ever such a cursed Creature. If I cannot have the blessing of God, and my Sins too, I had better be without my own Sins, than be without God's Blessing.