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

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,

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 sloathful 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 imployed. Is this your love to Christ more than to other things? Or,

3. When your care is more to keep other things than that Christ, you conceit you love? Let Christ go to keep your outward Possessions, and yet say you love Christ more; who do you think will believe what you say? Will not a man that loveth his Child more than his Gold, and all his Goods, if his House were on Fire, lose all to save his Child? So would you for Christ, if you loved him more than all.