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

IV. Is it not great folly to love other things and not Christ? For love ye will. There is such an affection as Love in all your Hearts, and something it will be set upon in this World, what ever it be with Damned Souls in the next. Now if Christ have it not, the World will: If Christ hath it not, Sin will. And do ye act as Rational Creatures, as Men endued with Reason, to deny your Love to Christ, and give it to the World, and Sin? Set one over against the other, and then tell me,

IV. Is it not great folly to love other things and not Christ? For love ye will. There is such an affection as Love in all your Hearts, and something it will be set upon in this World, what e're it be with Damned Souls in the next. Now if Christ have it not, the World will: If Christ hath it not, Sin will. And do ye act as Rational Creatures, as Men endued with Reason, to deny your Love to Christ, and give it to the World, and Sin? Set one over against the other, and then tell me,

1. Is it not great folly to love that which is worse than your selves, and not that which is infinitely better? Do ye think your Silver and your Gold is better than your selves, as much as ye love it? That your Houses, and your Lands, as bad as ye are, are better than your selves? But ye are not yet so good, nor yet so bad, but I hope ye will say, and acknowledge, that Christ is better.

1. Is it not great folly to love that which is worse than your selves, and not that which is infinitely better? Do ye think your Silver and your Gold is better than your selves, as much as ye love it? That your Houses, and your Lands, as bad as ye are, are better than your selves? But ye are not yet so good, nor yet so bad, but I hope ye will say, and ackdowledge, that Christ is better.