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

I. Clearly understand, and be throughly convinced of thy lost Estate, and miserable Condition, for Conviction, sight, and sense of Sin, and of ⟨p. 177⟩our lost Estate thereby, usually goes before the setting of the Heart and Love upon Jesus Christ; though God doth not deal with all Sinners, in all circumstances, alike, in working and begetting in them consent and love unto his Son, in divers persons the measure of Conviction is different, as in the Natural Birth, some are born after more pangs and throws than others are, so in the Spiritual Birth (in which the Love is turned unto, and set upon Christ, the day of this Birth being the day of Espousals) some God dealeth with more gently, with some more roughly. Some he melts like Wax, and some he hews like knotty Wood; some he carrieth by the Gates of Hell, to the Door of Heaven; and some he brings to Christ, and leads to Heaven with lesser Terrors.

I. CLearly understand, and be throughly convinced of thy lost Estate, and miserable Condition, for Conviction, sight, and sense of Sin, and of ⟨p. 177⟩our lost Estate thereby, usually goes before the setting of the Heart and Love upon Jesus Christ; though God doth not deal with all Sinners, in all circumstances, alike, in working and begetting in them consent and love unto his Son, in divers persons the measure of Conviction is different, as in the Natural Birth, some are born after more pangs and throws than others are, so in the Spiritual Birth (in which the Love is turned unto, and set upon Christ, the day of this Birth being the day of Espousals) some God dealeth with more gently, with some more roughly. Some he melts like Wax, and some he hews like knotty Wood; some he carrieth by the Gates of Hell, to the Door of Heaven; and some he brings to Christ, and leads to Heaven with lesser Terrors.

To gain your love to Christ, he expressly threatens Damnation that is so great, it cannot be fully expressed, and lets the Sinner know, that Consent and Love he must, or be Damned he must. He doth let in such light into the Mind, that the Soul doth see there is is no way to escape the darkness of Hell, than by consenting to Christ that came from Heaven; and Christ presseth hard upon the Conscience of the Sinner, whom he Wooeth for his Love, saying, Poor Sinner! What dost thou mean? To be Damned rather than to have me for thy Saviour? To go to Hell with thy Lusts, than to Heaven with me the Lord? What wilt thou do? Shall I have thy Love or No? Wilt thou at last consent, or wilt thou still refuse? I tell thee plainly, if I and thou part, Hell and thou must meet. I have been Wooing long, and Waiting long, but now it is come to a parting, or a closing point,