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

SECT. I. The Introduction.

HOW! Not love the Lord! Hellish Sin. How! Not love Jesus! Stupendous Wickedness. What! Not love Christ! Monstrous Impiety. Not love him that is both Lord, and Jesus, and Christ! What name might we call him by? A Man or a Beast? A Man or a Devil? That doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you confess him to be Lord, and Jesus, and Christ, and love Sin, and not Him? Love the ⟨p. 2⟩World, and not Him? Love Relations, and not Him? This may be the Astonishment of the Heavens, the Amazement of the Earth, the Wonder of Angels, the Joy of Devils, the Burden of the Creation of God. The Earth doth groan to bear them; the Sun is grieved to give light unto them; the Air laments its putrefaction, to be sucked into such filthy bodies, wherein are more filthy souls, because void of the Love of Christ: Yea, all this world looks more like Hell than Heaven, because of the swarms of men therein, that have no sincere Love to Jesus Christ. Let all among you this day, that are not Sensual Beasts, or Incarnate Devils, that have the Understanding and Hearts of men, stand and wonder, that tho Devils will not love the Lord Jesus Christ, that a Man should deny him his Love. Good Lord! What a thing is this! What cursed Wickedness is this! What wonder that thou dost behold such a fight as this, a Man without love unto thy Son, and suffer him to continue to be a man; or dost not make him a sick man, a poor man, a tormented, pained man on earth, or a Damned man in Hell! But tho thou bearest with such a man, is he not a wretched, miserable man, tho he be a rich and prospering man? Oh what Punishment waiteth for him? How do Devils hope for his Death, that they might drag him down to that Hellish Crew; where there is not one Lover of Christ amongst them all? But what is he? What shall he be that Loves not Christ? What? Anathema, Maran-atha. What is that? The Explication will tell you.