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

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⟩there is betwixt God and Man, might fill us with wonder that God should become a Suitor to man for his love, when there is not so much distance between Man and Nothing, as there is between God and Man; and yet he is pleased to stoop so low, to urge us to consent to him, that we might be advanced as high as Heaven, who else must be plunged into the depths of Hell.

Oh the astonishing condescention of the holy God! That he will i•treat! Oh the amazing stupidity and folly of the sinful Sinner, that he will not be entreated! Surely the infinite distance that ⟨p. 149⟩there is betwixt God and Man, might fill us with wonder that God should become a Suiter to man for his love, when there is not so much distance between Man and Nothing, as there is between God and Man; and yet he is pleased to stoop so low, to urge us to consent to him, that we might be advanced as high as Heaven, who else must be plunged into the depths of Hell.

On what is this? that the Creator should seek to be loved by the Creature! The Lord to be loved by the Servant! The King of Saints to the Subjects of Sin, that he might have our Heart and Love! Whereas if we did consider, that our strictest Service to him, would be our largest Liberty, our having of him our only Happiness, our missing of him our greatest Misery, we should know it were our Interest to prostrate our selves at his Feet, to lye at his Door, with Prayers and Tears, with Cries and Calls, with Grief and Groans; to make it our daily Suit to him, that he would love us, and give us an Heart to love him.

On what is this? that the Creator should seek to be loved by the Creature! The Lord to be loved by the Servant! The King of Saints to the Subjects of Sin, that he might have our Heart and Love! Whereas if we did consider, that our stritest Service to him, would be our largest Liberty, our having of him our only Happiness, our missing of him our greatest Misery, we should know it were our Interest to prostrate our selves at his Feet, to lye at his Door, with Prayers and Tears, with Cries and Calls, with Grief and Groans; to make it our daily Suit to him, that he would love us, and give us an Heart to love him.