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

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.

But why should you look for such long entreaties? Do you know who it is that doth entreat you? Is it I, or God himself by me? I pray you view one Text, and then let him that doth entreat you, wait no longer for your answer, and for shame put him not to entreat you longer. What place is that? It is 2 Cor. 5.20. Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled to God. What say you now? I from God, and God by me beseech you. A Minister of God stands among you in Christs stead, to beg, entreat, beseech that from you, which if Christ stood in this place this day, he would Preach unto you, and desire, and command from you, that ye would be reconciled unto God; after the enmity to him, you would love him. God, Christ, by his Servant, doth beseech, entreat, pray you to love him.