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

V. Christ will manifest himself unto his Lovers: He will discover his Love, and that in the worst condition ye can be in. While ye are in Prosperity, many may manifest much Love unto you, but when ⟨p. 205⟩ye are afflicted, distressed, and stand most in need of their Help and Love, will with-hold it from you. Job 19.13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count• me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16. I called my servant, but he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. 17. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 19. All my inward friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are turned against me: But Christ that dwells in the Hearts of his Lovers, is to them a Bosom friend, that he makes the time of their greatest Troubles and Distresses, to be the time of the discoveries and manifestations of his love. Isa. 63.9. In all their afflictions he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. And if he withdraw, and for a time conceal his love, it is to make them more earnest in seeking after him, and for fuller discoveries of his love to them afterwards, Cant. 3.1, 2, 3.

V. Christ will manifest himself unto his Lovers: He will discover his Love, and that in the worst condition ye can be in. While ye are in Prosperity, many may manifest much Love unto you, but when ⟨p. 205⟩ye are afflicted, distressed, and stand most in need of their Help and Love, will with-hold it from you. Job 19.13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16. I called my servant, but he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. 17. My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the childrens sake of mine own body. 19. All my inward friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are turned against me: But Christ that dwells in the Hearts of his Lovers, is to them a Bosom friend, that he makes the time of their greatest Troubles and Distresses, to be the time of the discoveries and manifestations of his love.