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

2. To gain your love to Christ, consider him in his relation to the Father, who yet gave him for you. All Beings have some relation to God, but none nearer to him than Christ; who is God's own Son, and that in a sense beyond all Angels that were the ⟨p. 186⟩Sons of God by creation, Job 38.7. Believers, by Adoption, John 1.12. Gal. 3.26. but Christ by eternal Generation, Psal. 2.7. Christ, God's only begotten Son, such an one he had but one, and yet this only one was given for you. O where is your love? Is not this enough to kindle it in your hearts? Christ was God's dear Son, his very Darling, his daily delight, Prov. 8.30. The Son of his love, Col. 1.13. And shall he not be the Object of yours? Behold the Son of his love was given, and came for the Children of Wrath. And is not he to be beloved upon that account, and for that very reason? Do men love the Sons of Princes, and will not you love the Son of God? Do you love your own Children, your own Sons and Daughters, and will you not love the Son of God? He did not say, Father, since I am thy Son, why should I suffer and die for thine Enemies? Father, I am thine only Son, and thou hast not another in Heaven or Earth, as I am; why then should I be crowned with Thorns, that Sinners might have a Crown of Glory? But this only Son did die for Rebels; the Son of God's Bosom, lay in the Bosom of the Earth. Dear Saviour! Thou art worthy of every man's bosom-love.

2. To gain your love to Christ, consider him in his relation to the Father, who yet gave him foryou. All Beings have some relation to God, but none nearer to him than Christ; who is God's own Son, and that in a sense beyond all Angels that were the ⟨p. 186⟩Sons of God by creation,