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

Oh horrid shame! Love Deformity and not Beauty? Where are your eyes? Surely your love to sin is blind. O monstrous Lover! Love that which is worst of all, and not him that is best of all! Where is your reason? Have you lost the understanding of a man? Hath sin bereaved you of your wits? Then oh Madness and Folly! Are you so fond of sin, as to be damned for it? Are you so foolishly fond of this world, as for the love of it to be hated of God, and banished out of his Glorious Presence for ever? Is your Soul so clogged with flesh, and sunk so deep into it, that it can rise no higher in its love, than sensual, earthly, and fleshly delights and pleasures? Will this love be so sweet in the review, as you think it is in the present taste thereof? Is this so vile a thing, so base and sordid love, that sets you below ⟨p. 98⟩the rank of men, not to be reproved? For this are you not justly blamed?

Oh horrid shame! Love Deformity and not Beauty? Where are your eyes? Surely your love to sin is blind. O monstrous Lover! Love that which is worst of all, and not him that is best of all! Where is your reason? Have you lost the understanding of a man? Hath sin bereaved you of your wits? Then oh Madness and Folly! Are you so fond of sin, as to be damn'd for it? Are you so foolishly fond of this world, as for the love of it to be hated of God, and banished out of his Glorious Presence for ever? Is your Soul so clogg'd with flesh, and sunk so deep into it, that it can rise no higher in its love, than sensual, earthly, and fleshly delights and pleasures? Will this love be so sweet in the review, as you think it is in the present taste thereof? Is this so vile a thing, so base and sordid love, that sets you below ⟨p. 98⟩the rank of men, not to be reproved? For this are you not justly blamed?

Blamed! yea, and justly reckoned an Anathema, that hath such an incomparable Object as Christ propounded to him, and yet will nor love him? Whose Excellencies are set forth, and yet he seeth no Beauty in him? That when there is nothing in the world so suitable to a sinner, as Christ, and yet will you be so perverse as to imagine, and your heart maintain, that Riches are more suitable, and Pleasures are more suitable, and Christ and the things of Christ, the only inconvenient things for you? If you do not think so, why do you do so as you do, in denying him your love? Are you not to be blamed, that when yet you might have Christ; are not past a capacity, a possibility of having Christ, and all his benefits and good by him, that you do not turn your love unto him? Are you not to be blamed, when you thus do vilify that Blessed Lord that none can over-value? Will not you pass for a sinful wretch, among all wise and serious men, nay, with God and Angels, that you have a will for the world, and for the empty vanities of this life, but no will for Christ, for a full, and All-sufficient Christ? When you do prefer fading enjoyments of a transitory life, before a durable good in eternal life? Tell me, I beseech you, is not he deservedly a wretch, whom neither the Excellencies of Christ himself, nor all the benefits he might have by him, will move him to set his heart upon him? What do you think? What do you say? Have you done well or ill in not loving Christ? Well, you dare not say; Ill, you are loth to say; because