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

7. Art thou not an Enemy to God? Born so, and Lived so? Take heed thou dost not dye so, for then there shall be no Peace, no making up the breach betwixt God and thy Soul. But now Christ is the blessed Peace-maker, and by the Blood of his Cross he will reconcile thee unto God, Col. 1.20, 21. God will never be reconciled to thee, but in, and through Christ, 2 Cor. 5.18, 19.

8. Art thou not spiritually Dead? Hast thou not lost the holy Image of God, which was thy Beauty? Though thou art Dead, he can quicken thee, and give thee the Life of Grace and Glory, 1 Joh. 5.12.

Now if this be thy condition, and Christ can, and is ready, able, and willing, to help thee in every respect, how suitable is Christ to thee? And suitableness being a ground of Love, and a motive thereunto, what an Argument is here to win thy Love? Oh say then, I am Lost, but Christ will save me; I am Ignorant, but Christ will teach me; I am Sick, and he will recover me; I am Indebted, and he will be a surety for me; I am Polluted, and he will cleanse me; I am a Captive, and he will redeem me; I am an Enemy to God, and he will reconcile me; I am Dead, and he will quicken me. Oh, I never found one so suitable for me; now, even now, he shall be loved by me. Oh this is the most excellent Object for my Love, and I will no longer hold it from him.