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

O that I might have such success with Souls this Day! for the Lord my Master, hath sent me bound with the obligation of a Woe, to seek the love ⟨p. 145⟩and consent of lost Souls, to become the Spouse of his Son Jesus, with this relief, That if Sinners be not willing, nor will accept the motion, I shall be released from the Woe. I have made preparation, (though less and weaker than such a weighty matter doth require) and have Prayed that the Lord God would send me good speed this day. And now I am standing by the Well of the Water of Life, and some of the City are come to draw Water out of the Well of Salvation; and upon enquiry made, I find they are the Children of the Kindred of Jesus, who forasmuch as the Children were partakers of flesh and blood, himself also took part of the same, to whom my message is so important, that I can willingly forbear to eat till I have told my errand; and therefore in your Audience desire to speak on, saying, I am the Lords Servant, who is not made great, or blessed by any other, for he is great and blessed above all, and over all for ever: the earth, and all that therein is, is his; the Sea, and all therein is his; the Heavens, and all therein, is also his: And he hath a Son, one only Son Jesus, and he hath given him all that he hath, even all power in Heaven, and in Earth, and hath set him at his own right hand, far above all Principalities and Powers, and Might, and Dominion, and every Name that is named, not only in this World, but that which is to come, and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be Head over all things; the Judge of all the World. And this great Lord hath sent me to ask and beg your Hearts and Love, in order to an indissoluble Marriage to his own only Son; and now if ye will deal truly with my Master, tell me, if not, tell me. ⟨p. 146⟩Oh now who saith the thing is of the Lord, and proceedeth from his grace and mercy, we cannot gainsay, we will not refuse this Message. And when you are asked who will have this Jesus? Who will love this Jesus? methinks one should say, I will; another should say, and I will. One and Another! What! no more? Methinks every one should say I will; that there should not be another, that should say, but I will not. Let who will, but I will not. No? Why? Because no better a Servant is sent to gain thy consent? Or doth manage this great affair with no more zeal and skill?