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

The unreasonable Creatures have not the knowledge of God, and the senseless Creatures cannot feel the power of God; therefore these as they cannot be properly blessed, so nor accursed. But Man hath understanding to know God, and hath sense to feel the power of his Anger; therefore since among all God's visible Works, man is only the subject of proper blessings, and proper Curses; he will of all these be the most happy, or the most miserable: If he obtains the Blessings of God, the most happy; if he lie under the Curses of God, the ⟨p. 84⟩most miserable. Those that get the Blessing, shall dwell, and live, and reign with the blessed God, with blessed Jesus, and with his blessed Angels; but those that lie under the Curse, must be tormented with cursed Spirits, cursed men, with cursed Devils for ever. So then, except you love Christ, better you had never been rational Creatures; a Toad, a Dog, a Serpent, will not be in so bad a case as you will be: In a natural sense it is better be a Man than a Beast; but in a Theological sense, it is better to be a Beast than a Man that will never love the Lord Jesus Christ.

V. Sins of Omission expose men to the Wrath and Curse of God, and to Eternal Damnation, as well as Sins of Commission: For it is, for not loving of Christ that a man is declared to be Anathema. And when the Curse shall be openly and publicly pronounced, and by Christ be thundered out against men at the last day, the Reason given is Sins of Omission; Matth. 25.41. Then shall the king say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 42. For I was an hungry, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no arink: 43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not: sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.

V. Sins of Omission expose men to the Wrath and Curse of God, and to Eternal Damnation, as well as Sins of Commission: For it is, for not loving of Christ that a man is declared to be Anathema. And when the Curse shall be openly and publickly pronounced, and by Christ be thundered out against men at the last day, the Reason given is Sins of Omission;