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

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 ⟨p. 99⟩by so saying you will condemn your self. What then? Condemn your self, because you have not loved him; and love him now, that you might not be condemned by God, and cursed by Christ, for not loving him at all.

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 vilifie 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