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

Though one that is sincere in his love to Christ might not love Christ more than some other persons love him, yet he loves Christ more than he loves ⟨p. 132⟩other persons or things. But do you love Christ more than you love other things, and yet,

1. Your thoughts are habitually set, and actually run out upon other things more than upon Christ? Can you think on the World with delight, but not on Christ? And love to have a thousand thoughts on other things for one you have of Christ? It is a pleasure to you to think on your Pleasures, your Profits, your Children, but a burden to you to think of Christ, and keep your thoughts upon him. Are not the thoughts much upon the object of love; Psal. 139.17. When I awake, I am still with thee. But if you cannot sleep in the Night, your Head is full of the thoughts of the World, because your Heart is full of the love of the World. Is it not a sign the World, and not Christ, is loved as your Treasure? for where the treasure is, there the heart will be also, Mat. 6.20, 21.

2. Do you love Christ more than other things, when your labour is more for other things than for Christ? Did you ever take that pains, that care, to get an Interest in Christ, as you have done for the Riches of this Life? If you had, might you not have had him, whereas now you are without him? You Sweat for the World; you are Cold in your Praying for Christ; you lay out your strength in working for the World; you are slothful in endeavouring after Christ; you are lively upon the Exchange; quick in your Counting-House; with might and main you act in your Shop, but dull in your Closet upon your Knees, if you at any time are there so employed. Is this your love to Christ more than to other things? Or,