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

II. Do you love Christ, while you maintain the Love of Sin in your Heart? Can the love of Sin, and the love of Christ, dwell together in highest degrees? Can the affection of love in that manner be carried out to two contrary objects at the same time? And is there any thing in the World more contrary than Christ and Sin? Is there more opposition between Light and Darkness, extremely Sweet, and extremely Sour? Can you love your Health and Poison too to be in your Stomach? Can you love Christ, and yet love what he doth hate? Can you love Christ and delight in Sin, which took away the Life of your Lord? Could you carry that Knife continually in your Bosom with delight, that was the Instrument of Death unto your dearest Friend? You might as soon look down upon the Earth, and up unto the Heavens at the same instant, as thus love Sin and Christ together. Psal. 97.10. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil; and the hatred to Sin, that proves sincere Love to Christ, must be

II. Do you love Christ, while you maintain the Love of Sin in your Heart? Can the love of Sin, and the love of Christ, dwell together in highest degrees? Can the affection of love in that manner be carried out to two contrary objects at the same time? And is there any thing in the World more contrary than Christ and Sin? Is there more opposition between Light and Darkness, extreamly Sweet, and extreamly Sowre? Can you love your Health and Poyson too to be in your Stomach? Can you love Christ, and yet love what he doth hate? Can you love Christ and delight in Sin, which took away the Life of your Lord? Could you carry that Knife continually in your Bosom with delight, that was the Instrument of Death unto your dearest Friend? You might as soon look down upon the Earth, and up unto the Heavens at the same instant, as thus love Sin and Christ together. Psal. 97.10. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil; and the hatred to Sin, that proves sincere Love to Christ, must be

1. Universal, to the Darling Sin as well as others, to the Sin that hath been to you as your Right Hand, or Right Eye. Hatred is to the kind; he that hates a Toad: It is not this one, or that in