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

XVI. Is there any love so profitable as the love of Christ? Gain draweth Love; by the love of other things more than Christ, you will lose more than you gain. By such love, God, Christ, Heaven, and your own Soul, will be for ever lost; and should your gains of the World be proportionable to your love of the World, yea, and exceed it, to the gaining of the whole World to your self, which never man yet did, your gain would prove ⟨p. 173⟩your loss; and when you come to cast up your Account at Death, or Judgment, you will find your self cast much behind hand, because from Gods face and favour. Mat. 16.26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? But by the loving of Christ you shall have gain, that no man can value, no Wit can estimate, no Arithmetician, by all his Numbers and Figures, can compute; even pardon of innumerable Sins, the favour of an infinite God, deliverance from unconceivable Torments, possession of endless Life, and more than I, or any man, can describe or comprehend.

XVI. Is there any love so profitable as the love of Christ? Gain draweth Love; by the love of other things more than Christ, you will lose more than you gain. By such love, God, Christ, Heaven, and your own Soul, will be for ever lost; and should your gains of the World be proportionable to your love of the World, yea, and exceed it, to the gaining of the whole World to your self, which never man yet did, your gain would prove ⟨p. 173⟩your loss; and when you come to cast up your Accompt at Death, or Judgment, you will find your self cast much behind hand, because from Gods face and favour. Mat. 16.26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? But by the loving of Christ you shall have gain, that no man can value, no Wit can estimate, no Arithmetician, by all his Numbers and Figures, can compute; even pardon of innumerable Sins, the favour of an infinite God, deliverance from unconceiveable Torments, possession of endless Life, and more than I, or any man, can describe or comprehend.