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

I. Love to Christ is an evidence of the sincerity of your Hearts, and of the truth of your Conversion. He that loves the World, is a worldly man; and he that loves his Pleasure most, is a voluptuous man; and he that loves Christ with a predominant Love, is a gracious, upright man. Cant. 1.4. The upright love thee. Such love to the second Adam is not sound in any man that is still growing upon the old stock of the first Adam. This love to Christ was not born with us, but wrought in us when we were born again. This new Love only is in the new Creature: Love to Christ is an evidence of your ⟨p. 200⟩Interest in Christ. Such predominant Love to the Lord Jesus, so Spiritual, was never found in any Heart, that is only carnal: The Proof therefore of this predominant Affection, will be a demonstration of your Spiritual Renovation. Christ sifting Peter concerning his sincerity after his Fall, when sifted by Satan, enquires after his Love to him, John 21.15, 16, 17. Rom. 8.28.

I. Love to Christ is an evidence of the sincerity of your Hearts, and of the truth of your Conversion. He that loves the World, is a world•y man; and he that loves his Pleasure most, is a voluptuous man; and he that loves Christ with a predominant Love, is a gracious, upright man. Cant. 1.4. The upright love thee. Such love to the second Adam is not sound in any man that is still growing upon the old stock of the first Adam. This love to Christ was not born with us, but wrought in us when we were born again. This new Love only is in the new Creature: Love to Christ is an evidence of your ⟨p. 200⟩Interest in Christ. Such predominant Love to the Lord Jesus, so Spiritual, was never found in any Heart, that is only carnal: The Proof therefore of this predominant Affection, will be a demonstration of your Spiritual Renovation. Christ sifting Peter concerning his sincerity after his Fall, when sifted by Satan, enquires after his Love to him,