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

1. The Conditions of the Gospel, and Covenant of Grace are neglected. The great Article, the Sum and Summary whereof is, I will be your God, and ye shall be my people, Heb. 8.10. I will love you, and you shall love me; my heart shall be towards you, and your heart shall be towards me: I will love none like you, and you shall love none like me. How is this done? Can you love him while you do not love him? Hath God and Christ your hearts, while the world and sin have your hearts? 2 Cor. ⟨p. 107⟩6.18. I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. That is, I will pity you as a father, and love you as a father doth his children, and much more; and ye shall love me as sons and daughters love their father, and much more. A son, and not love! a daughter, and not love! such sons and daughters are bitterness to their Parents; and so are ye to Christ.

2. In not loving Christ, the Threatenings of the Gospel are slighted, and set at nought by thee. It is dreadful to lie under the Curses of the Law; but it is more terrible to fall under the Curses of the Gospel. It might make thy heart to shake within thee, to have the Curse and not the Blessing of thy Maker; but it might make thy heart to sink within thee, to have the, Curse and not the Blessing of the Redeemer. What else doth he do in the words of the Text? What else is it but a Curse, to be judged, accounted, declared to be unworthy of Christ? Unworthy to be pardoned by him, and saved by him; that is, not fit to be saved by Christ, nor sit to be delivered from hell, or taken up to heaven. Mat. 10.37. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. Or wilt thou bless thy self tho thou hearest this Curse? Like the man,