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

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 ⟨p. 130⟩particular, but all. He that Loves Christ sincerely, hates Sin as a man hates a Toad, not only as to the degree, but also as to the extent, all and every one. Psal. 119.104 I hate every false way.

1. Ʋniversal, 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 ⟨p. 130⟩particular, but all. He that Loves Christ sincerely, hates Sin as a man hates a Toad, not only as to the degree, but also as to the extent, all and every one. Psal. 119.104 I hate every false way.

2. Implacable: Anger might be pacified, but Hatred planted in the Nature is irreconcilable. Antipathy cannot be rooted out, nor turned into Love. A man might be angry at Sin that loves not Christ, but be friends again; might turn from it, and afterwards return unto it; but the hatred to Sin implanted in the new Creature is implacably bent against Sin, that the words might have some place here by way of allusion, relating the Love and Hatred of Amnon to Tamar. 2 Sam. 13.15. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, (Hebrew is, with great hatred greatly) so that the hatred wherewith he hated her, was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her; and Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. With like detestation will the Lover of Christ pack away his Sin; Arise, be gone, with greater hatred than before he loved it.