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

Why did the Son of God become the Son of Man? Why did he shed his Blood, lay down his Life? Why did he suffer, sweat, bleed, and dye? Why did he bear our Punishment, satisfy Divine Justice, endure the Wrath of God, the Rage of Men and Devils, but to bring man back again to God, from whom he had departed? And that the ⟨p. 102⟩stream of man's affections might be turned again into its right Channel?

Why did the Son of God become the Son of Man? Why did he shed his Blood, lay down his Life? Why did he suffer, sweat, bleed, and dye? Why did he bear our Punishment, satisfie Divine Justice, endure the Wrath of God, the Rage of Men and Devils, but to bring man back again to God, from whom he had departed? And that the ⟨p. 102⟩stream of man's affections might be turned again into its right Channel?

Couldst thou not have loved the World, and Self, if Christ had never dyed? Couldst thou not have loved thy Pleasures and thy Sins, if Christ had never died? And having died, wilt thou love no better? Hath he come from Heaven to gain thy Love, and shall he not have it? Hath he given himself a Ransom to deliver thee from thy Captivity, and paid thy Debt, for which thou shouldst have gone to the Prison of Hell, to gain thy Love, and shall he not have it? Hath he given his Life for thine, his Soul for thine, in dying when thou shouldst have dyed, and all this to gain thy Love, and shall he not have it?

What thinkest thou? Was Christ weary of the Bosom of his Father? Was it more honourable for him to dwell in flesh on earth, than with the Father of Spirits in Heaven? Was it not infinite Condescension, for his Deity to be veiled with the rags of our Humanity? Or was Christ prodigal of his Blood, or weary of his Life; or did he love and choose such cruel Scourgings, such Contempt and Scorn, such a cursed, shameful, painful Death for themselves? Surely all this was for some great and noble end; which end thou doest, as much as in thee lies, by thy not loving him, frustrate, and render unattainable; for if all men should deny him their Love, as thou dost, where would be the Reconciliation betwixt God and man, Remission of Sins, or Salvation of Souls, which Christ died to procure? Will God be reconciled to that man that doth not love him? Or can that man that loves not him be reconciled unto God? Or doth not Reconciliation