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

If you love the World never so much, can the World do so much for you? If you love your Honours, your Pleasures, your Relations, never so much, can they bless you as Christ will bless you? Nay, the more you love them, the more miserable the love of them will make you. Should I call you to love the World, you would do it; or your Pleasures, Self, or Sin, you would do it. Nay, when I (or any more skilful than I am) have called to you, to wean your Love from these, yet still in love you cleave unto them.

What! Is Christ the only unlovely object in your Eyes? Can you find Love for any thing but Christ? ⟨p. 148⟩What is it in Christ that doth displease you? What do you see in him that is offensive to you? Either love him, or give a reason why you will not.

Do you blame me for my Importunity? I thought since I began this Use, you did refuse, because I was not urgent enough with you. You will not love, except you be entreated; if that were it, that you love to be entreated to Love, and would love Christ, after much entreating, I would study Night and Day to think how I might entreat you, and what Arguments to use, to prevail, and obtain your love for Christ.

Do you blame me for my Importunity? I thought since I began this Use, you did refuse, because I was not urgent enough with you. You will not love, except you be entreated; if that were it, that you love to be entreated to Love, and would love Christ, after much intreating, I would study Night and Day to think how I might entreat you, and what Arguments to use, to prevail, and obtain your love for Christ.