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

CHAP. XI. Twenty Motives, or Pleas, that Christ might have the Love of your Hearts.

I. CAN you find a more excellent object for your Love than Christ? If you search through the whole Creation of God, is there any like to Christ? Whatsoever you think, who dare say there is? Are Riches, Honours, Pleasures, Relations, which you have loved, comparable to Christ, whom you ought to love? If Good be only the object of Love, is not the best Good the best object? Can you love the lesser Good, and not the greater? Yea, the greatest of all? Is not all the Goodness in the Creature but as a drop to the Sea, as a Candle to the Sun, as a Sand to a Mountain, if compared to the Goodness there is in Christ? If David were worth ten thousand of others, 2 Sam. 18.3. is not Christ, Davids Lord, better than all the World? Read Cant. 2.3, & 5, 16. Prov. 3.14, 15. Phil. 3.8. Dost thou waver in thy thoughts, or hesitate about this? Tell me,

First, Is not Christ a Good most suitable for thee? Is Liberty so suitable to a Captive Man, or Bread to an Hungry Man, or Health to a Sick Man, or Ease to a Pained Man, as Christ is to a Sinful Man? For,

First, Is not Christ a Good most suitable for thee? Is Liberty so suitable to a Captive Man, or Bread to an Hungry Man, or Health to a Sick Man, or Ease to a Pained Man, as Christ is to a Sinsul Man? For,