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

3. Art thou not Sick, and full of Spiritual Diseases? Abounding with Soul Distempers? Even sick to Death? Nigh unto eternal Death? He will be thy Physician, who is so able and so skilful, that never any yet, that he undertook to Cure, Died under his Hands; for rather than thou shouldst dye of thy Disease, he will make thee a Potion of his own Blood, which if thou Drinkest, thou shalt certainly recover. Therefore he came to be a Soul. Physician, and gave this as a reason why he did converse with Publicans and Sinners, That he might cure them, Mat. 9.12.

4. Art thou not indebted? Owest thou not Millions to God? Hast thou a Mite to pay? If God demand satisfaction from thee, will it not prove thy Damnation? If Justice pursue thee, Death Arrest ⟨p. 153⟩thee, will not Devils seize thy Soul, and hale it to the Prison of Hell, from whence thou shalt not be delivered, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing, which will never be? This Christ, if thou wilt but love him, will be thy Bail, become thy Surety, and make payment of thy Debt, and give thee a Discharge.

5. Art thou not polluted and unclean? Hath not the Leprosy of Sin overspread thy Understanding, Will, Conscience, Memory, and all thine Affections? So that thou art defiled all over, liest wallowing in thy Blood, art cast out to the loathing of thy person; and canst thou, in this filthy case, enter into the holy Kingdom of God? If thou wilt give him thy Love, he will take away thy filthy Rags, and give thee change of Raiment, Zac. 3.1, 2, 3