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

3. Christ loveth his Lovers with an unparalleled, matchless Love. Great was the Love of Jonathan and David; great is the Love of tender Parents to their Children, but Christs is greater than all. Joh. 15.13. Greater love hath no man than this, That a man lay down his life for his friends.

3. Christ loveth his Lovers with an unparallel'd, matchless Love. Great was the Love of Jonathan and David; great is the Love of tender Parents to their Children, but Christs is greater than all. Joh. 15.13. Greater love hath no man than this, That a man lay down his life for his friends.

4. Christ loveth his Lovers, with a constant, abiding Love, for it is eternal and unchangeable. The Love of Creatures is sickle, and wavering love, sometimes sades and fails, while they live, or dyeth with them when they dye; or when we dye, their Love to us doth also dye: At least, they love us not as in that relation, for Death hath nulled that relation. But the Love of Christ is without end; he doth Live for ever, and he will Love for ever, and neither our Love to him, nor his to us, doth dye when we do dye, but after Death we love him more than ever, and he doth manifest his Love to us more than ever. Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love—

4. Christ loveth his Lovers, with a constant, abiding Love, for it is eternal and unchangeable. The Love of Creatures is sickle, and waveringlove, sometimes sades and fails, while they live, or dyeth with them when they dye; or when we dye, their Love to us doth also dye: At least, they love us not as in that relation, for Death hath null'd that relation. But the Love of Christ is without end; he doth Live for ever, and he will Love for ever, and neither our Love to him, nor his to us, doth dye when we do dye, but after Death we love him more than ever, and he doth manifest his Love to us more than ever.