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

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.

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 Embassadors 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.

Oh the astonishing condescension of the holy God! That he will entreat! Oh the amazing stupidity and folly of the sinful Sinner, that he will not be entreated! Surely the infinite distance that ⟨p. 149⟩