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

X. Not love Christ! Dost thou not herein bear the Image of the Devil, and look more like a Devil than a man. Hath the Devil no love to Christ? Nor hast thou. Oh what a thing is this, that a man on earth should love Christ no more than the Devils in Hell? And is the likeness of the Devil thy Glory? Is his Image thy Beauty? And Conformity to Satan thy Dignity? Or canst thou be saved more than the Devil himself, if thou lovest Christ no more than he? Oh when the Accusation at the last day shall be brought against thee, This man hated Christ like a Devil: Did he so? Away with him now unto the Devils. And that mans heart was no more towards Christ than the Devils. No? Then let that Man and Devils go together, and be Damned together.

XI. Not love Christ! Dost thou not carry thy self worse towards Christ than the Devils do? And is not thy not loving of Christ worse in thee than it is in Devils? because the greater love and kindness that Christ hath shown to thee than ever he did to Devils, and the more he hath done for thee than he hath for them, the worse is want of love to Christ in thee than in them. Did Christ dye for Devils as he hath for thee? Did he bear the punishment of their Sin, as he hath for thine? Did he ever make Salvation possible to them, as he hath to thee? Did he ever offer pardon to them, as he hath to thee? Or did he ever solicit them for their love, as he hath done with thee for thine? Might not Devils say, we have ⟨p. 115⟩not that cause nor reasons to love Christ as Men have? And might not we suppose, if the Devils in Hell were set in the same circumstances as Men on Earth, that some of the Devils might love him, when some men will not? However, when we consider the Texts that speak of fallen Angels, and how they are irrecoverably cast into blackness and darkness, and of fallen men who are saveable, it is sufficient foundation for this conclusion, That want of love to Christ is worse in men than it is in Devils. Concerning Gods just dealing with Sinning Angels, we read, 2 Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment. And Epistle of