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

3. The greatest of all they called Samatha; so called from Shem, a name which they put for Nomen Tetragrammaton, or Jehovah, and Atha, comes: Others derive it from Sham, There, and Mitha, Death; as if they should say, There and then shall be death to the Non-Lovers of Christ. The Syrians call it Maran-atha; by which form added to the two former, the excommunicated person as desperate and forlorn, without all hope of pardon or restitution, was left to the hands of the Lord, to receive from him an heavy doom at his coming; implying, that they summoned the Excommunicated before the dreadful Tribunal at the last coming of the Son of God. They say this sort of Excommunication the people of God used against the Amalekites.

3. The greatest of all they called Samatha; so called from Sem, a name which they put for Nomen Tetragrammaton, or Jehova, and Atha, comes: Others derive it from Sham, There, and Mitha, Death; as if they should say, There and then shall be death to the Non-Lovers of Christ. The Syrians call it Maran-atha; by which form added to the two former, the excommunicated person as desperate and forlorn, without all hope of pardon or restitution, was left to the hands of the Lord, to receive from him an heavy doom at his coming; implying, that they summoned the Excommunicated before the dreadful Tribunal at the last coming of the Son of God. They say this sort of Excommunication the people of God used against the Amal•kites.

And with this highest degree of Excommunication, shall all the Non-Lovers of Christ, at his coming be excluded, and stand excommunicated from the favourable Presence of the Glorious God, and of Christ the Gracious only Saviour, from the Company of all the Holy Angels, and Society of the Blessed Saints, from the Holy Place above, and from all the Joys and Happiness thereof.