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

XIV. Want of love to Christ! Is it not the Mother of many horrid transgressions, and the Nurse, Maintainer, and Fomenter of them? Love to Christ shuts the door of the heart against the temptations of Satan, the enticements of Sinners, and the allurements of the World; but the want of it sets it open unto all. Love to Christ would be a Dam to the stream of Sin, but the want of it is the plucking up the Floodgates thereof, that Sin might run out of the heart into the life with a swift current. Is not ⟨p. 118⟩the absence of love to Christ the cause of many commissions of Evil? Would it not bridle thy Tongue, restrain thine Hands, shut thy Eyes, stop thy Ears, and keep all these from being defiled with sinful actings upon sinful objects? Is it not the cause of the omission of good? Of praying, hearing, meditation, holy discourse? What goeth before, and what followeth after the want of love to Christ, as flowing and proceeding from it, maketh it a sin exceeding sinful.

XIV. Want of love to Christ! Is it not the Mother of many horrid transgressions, and the Nurse, Maintainer, and Fomenter of them? Love to Christ shuts the door of the heart against the temptations of Satan, the inticements of Sinners, and the allurements of the World; but the want of it sets it open unto all. Love to Christ would be a Dam to the stream of Sin, but the want of it is the plucking up the Floodgates thereof, that Sin might run out of the heart into the life with a swift current. Is not ⟨p. 118⟩the absence of love to Christ the cause of many commissions of Evil? Would it not bridle thy Tongue, restrain thine Hands, shut thy Eyes, stop thy Ears, and keep all these from being defiled with finful actings upon sinful objects? Is it not the cause of the omission of good? Of praying, hearing, meditation, holy discourse? What goeth before, and what followeth after the want of love to Christ, as flowing and proceeding from it, maketh it a sin exceeding sinful.