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

Thirdly, Is not Christ the most durable Good? When thy Riches shall fail thee, thy Pleasures and Honours, and Friends, shall fail, Christ will never fail, Psal. 73.26.

Fourthly, Is not Christ a peculiar Good? Given by peculiar Love, only to a peculiar People, bringing with him peculiar Privileges? When all other things thou lovest, are common to the bad, as well as to the good? Though a Worldly man, whose Heart and Hands, and House, are full of the World, might say Riches are mine, yet he cannot truly say, Christ is mine. Let him have from thee peculiar Love, and he will be to thee a peculiar Good.

Fourthly, Is not Christ a peculiar Good? Given by peculiar Love, only to a peculiar People, bringing with him peculiar Priviledges? When all other things thou lovest, are common to the bad, as well as to the good? Though a Worldly man, whose Heart and Hands, and House, are full of the World, might say Riches are mine, yet he cannot truly say, Christ is mine. Let him have from thee peculiar Love, and he will be to thee a peculiar Good.

Fifthly, Is not Christ the most necessary Good? Dost thou need Food so much when thou art Hungry, or Liberty so much when thou art in Prison, or Salve when thou art Wounded, as Christ when thou hast sinned? Without other things thou mayest be happy, pardoned, reconciled, and for ever saved, but can any of these be thine without Christ? Christ is needful, while thou livest, for if thou beest in health, without him thy Soul is sick. If thou shouldst be sick, he will give the choicest, and the richest Cordial; when thou diest, he will secure thy departing Soul; and after Death, he will be thy Friend; when all shall leave thee at thy Grave, he will be thine for ever.