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

3. Love to Christ is the surest: Love to other things is often turned into hatred: Love to day, and hate to morrow; but this remaineth firm. The Object is the surest Object, neither Men, nor Death, nor Devils, can take away the Object of this Love. It is surest in the Habit and Principle, the Power of God, the Prayer of Christ; the promise of both secure the preservation of it. It is surest in the Act, for if we be careful our selves, no Men, nor Devils, can hinder our acting of this Love; they might keep us from hearing of his Word, but not from loving of his Person.

4. Love to Christ is the Noblest Love. Love to Pleasures, to the World, to Sin, is base polluted Love, this most sublime and raised; it hath the noblest, and the highest Object, it carrieth the Soul in his Thoughts and Meditations after him into the highest Heavens, and hath complacency in the highest Degree, and shall have for ever the highest Reward.

5. Love to Christ is the longest: Love that shall never end. Sirs, ere long, you will have done loving this World, even ye that love it most, and have your hearts most set upon it. Ye that now have your hearts full of Earth, when ye shall have your mouths full too, and your Corps lye rotting in the Earth, you shall have done loving of it: Death, that ends your life in the World; shall end ⟨p. 160⟩your love to the World, which Grace never did. Ye shall also have done, ere long, loving your Relations; ye shall have done loving Father and Mother, Brother and Sister, and Husband, and Wife and Children, as now in that relation, but the gracious Soul, the Lover of Christ, shall never have done loving of Christ: It is sweet to have it, but this doth make it more sweet, to think he shall always have it. Have it in Life, have it at Death, and have it after Death. O blessed Love, that shall never be lost, but ever last.