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

XI. Can you hope for Salvation by him, without sincere affection to him? Or who bids you hope for any such thing? Can you have the face to expect such great things by, through, and from Christ, as Pardon of all your Sins, deliverance from Hell, the happiness of Heaven, and yet not love him? Do you hope for eternal Life by Christ? I know you do; might not Christ then expect love from you, when you expect Life by Christ? As you would have Life by Christ, let Christ have Love from you, or else your expectation of Life will be disappointed, and end in Death without end.

XII. Dare you dye without love to Christ? Dare you, can you, leave this World with a quiet mind, if you love not Christ? No, surely, except you dye as Blind as you were Born. What think you when you come to be Sick, and when you come to Dye, will it not be a cut to thy Heart, to think I have lived twenty, forty, years, but I never loved Christ? Now must I go to appear before him whom I never loved. Why not love him while you live in health, as well as wish you had loved him when health is gone, and sickness come? When Life is going as fast as Death is coming?

XIII. Is not your Love Christs due? Do you ⟨p. 170⟩not owe it to him? Is it not due to him by virtue of Creation? Did not he give your Being to you? By virtue of Redemption, when you were worse than nothing, did not he lay down his Soul, his Life, his Blood, as a Price for your Ransom? By virtue of Preservation, hath not Christ kept you out of the Grave, and Hell, unto this day? Justice would have hewn thee down, and Wrath would have damned thee long ago, and who hath procured a Reprieval for thee but Christ? That thou art on this side the Torments of the Damned, not past Praying, and Hearing, and Hoping, is all through Christs procuring for thee longer time. By virtue of Provision, which Christ maketh for thee, thou wouldst not have had a Rag to thy Back, nor a Morsel for thy Mouth, nor Sleep in thy Eyes, if Christ had not bought, and by Purchase procured for thee what thou hast. Thy love is due to Christ by virtue of Command, whereby thou art obliged and bound to give it to him, and shalt be accounted a Transgressor, and a great one too, if thou dost with-hold it from him.