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

I. Not love Christ! What is this, but a crossing of the end of God in making thee a man? In setting thee above the beasts of the field? In giving thee a more noble and more excellent soul, than he hath given to the unreasonable creatures? Hath not God given thee a soul capable of knowing Jesus Christ? And what shouldst thou know him for, if not to love him? Hath not God given thee a will to go forth in its actings upon the most sweet and suitable Objects? And what is that but Christ? Hath he not put such an affection as Love into thy heart? And dost thou think in thy Conscience, it was that thou mightest love the world, and not his Son? Thy self, and not his Son; but ⟨p. 100⟩thy self in opposition to his Son? Thy sin, and not his Son? Canst thou imagine that God made thee a man, and not a beast, that thou mightest love him no more than beasts can love him? Then it had been enough if God had made thee a beast, and not a man. Or dost thou repent that God hath given thee the Nature, the Reason, and the Love of a man, that thou wilt not place it upon himself, for which end he made thee a man? If thou dost repent that thou art a man, and not a beast, then choose the Love and Pleasures of a beast, and refuse the Love and Pleasures of a man, and that as a man thou art capable of. If not, why dost thou not answer the end of thy creation?

I. Not love Christ! What is this, but a crossing of the end of God in making thee a man? In setting thee above the beasts of the field? In giving thee a more noble and more excellent soul, than he hath given to the unreasonable creatures? Hath not God given thee a soul capable of knowing Jesus Christ? And what shouldst thou know him for, if not to love him? Hath not God given thee a will to go forth in its actings upon the most sweet and suitable Objects? And what is that but Christ? Hath he not put such an affection as Love into thy heart? And dost thou think in thy Conscience, it was that thou mightest love the world, and not his Son? Thy self, and not his Son; but ⟨p. 100⟩thy self in opposition to his Son? Thy sin, and not his Son? Canst thou imagine that God made thee a man, and not a beast, that thou mightest love him no more than beasts can love him? Then it had been enough if God had made thee a beast, and not a man. Or dost thou repent that God hath given thee the Nature, the Reason, and the Love of a man, that thou wilt not place it upon himself, for which end he made thee a man? If thou dost repent that thou art a man, and not a beast, then chuse the Love and Pleasures of a beast, and refuse the Love and Pleasures of a man, and that as a man thou art capable of. If not, why dost thou not answer the end of thy creation?