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

3. Is it not great folly to love that which can never satisfy you, and not him that would satisfy your Souls for ever? Did these things ye love, ever fill your desires? Did they ever give you full content? How should they? When God hath made your Souls capable of the enjoyment of an infinite good, how can that which is finite fill them? It is only an infinite good, and not finite, that can satisfy your Souls, though they be finite; all the Creatures cannot fill one. For the Will of Man, though it be subjectively finite, yet it is objectively infinite; that is, (for to be easy and plain in such a place as this, and in such matters as these, before you, is best, because for you most profitable and edifying) though the Will in it self, and in its own Nature, because a Creature, is finite, and limited, yet it is capable of making choice of God, for its chiefest Good, ⟨p. 163⟩that is infinite and unlimited. And God hath put into the hearts of Men, desires after good that is eternal, for they desire to be eternally happy; but God hath not put this eternal goodness in any, in all the things of this World, for they are all transitory. Therefore when ye look for satisfaction in the Creatures that ye love, or in the loving of them, ye look for that which God never put into them, and nothing can give more than it hath, and nothing hath more than God hath given it, therefore to look for more from it, than God by making it, hath put into it, may yield you vexation enough, but no satisfaction at all. Eccles. 5.10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This is also vanity.

3. Is it not great folly to love that which can never satisfie you, and not him that would satisfie your Souls for ever? Did these things ye love, ever fill your desires? Did they ever give you full content? How should they? When God hath made your Souls capable of the enjoyment of an infinite good, how can that which is finite fill them? It is only an infinite good, and not finite, that can satisfie your Souls, though they be finite; all the Creatures cannot fill one. For the Will of Man, though it be subjectively finite, yet it is objectively infinite; that is, (for to be easie and plain in such a place as this, and in such matters as these, before you, is best, because for you most profitable and edifying) though the Will in it self, and in its own Nature, because a Creature, is finite, and limited, yet it is capable of making choice of God, for its chiefest Good,