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

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, Deut. 29.19. And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, tho I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. So thou; Tho I do love the world, and sin, and self, more than Christ, I shall have Peace, and Pardon, and Eternal Life. ⟨p. 108⟩Shalt thou so? How wilt thou come by it? From whom wilt thou have it? Will God spare such a man? Shall not his Anger smoke against him? And the Fire of his Indignation burn him up till he be consumed? Or burn him, tho by burning he shall never be consumed. If it were a man, thou mightest say, Let him curse, Psal. 109.28. But wilt thou say of God, of Christ, Let him curse, who cares? Let him curse, who fears his Curse? Thou careless sinner! God will make thee care, and if thou dost not fear, God will make thee feel the weight of his Anger; and when thou shalt feel what now thou dost not fear, thou shalt not make so light a matter of it.

2. In not loving Christ, the Threatnings 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.