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

VII. Sincere love to Christ, is a mighty help against Apostasy. If a man be a Professor, and a Lover of the World, a Professor, and a Lover of Pleasure, of his own Ease, and Life, more than of Christ, when these come in danger, to keep them, he parts with Christ; but he that loveth Christ above all, will part with all, to cleave to Christ. Love to Christ, hath carried his people through great difficulties and dangers; out of love to Christ, they have contemned the Allurements, and laughed at the Affrightments of this World, have gone through Shame and Reproach, endured Stripes and Imprisonments, Bonds and Bondage, and Death it self. Rom. 8.35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (Whether it be understood Actively or Passively, of the love wherewith we love Christ, or the love whereby we are beloved by Christ, is not material, for concerning both we might ask) Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword? 37. Nay, in all these things ([Greek or Hebrew], we over-overcome) we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. 38. For I am persuaded, ⟨p. 207⟩that neither Death, nor Life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor things present, nor things to come. 39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. If any leave Christ, it is for want of love; for so far as love prevails, we shall, in greatest Troubles and Sufferings for him, cleave unto him.

VII. Sincere love to Christ, is a mighty help against Apostacy. If a man be a Professor, and a Lover of the World, a Professor, and a Lover of Pleasure, of his own Ease, and Life, more than of Christ, when these come in danger, to keep them, he parts with Christ; but he that loveth Christ above all, will part with all, to cleave to Christ. Love to Christ, hath carried his people through great difficulties and dangers; out of love to Christ, they have contemned the Allurements, and laughed at the Affrightments of this World, have gone through Shame and Reproach, endured Stripes and Imprisonments, Bonds and Bondage, and Death it self. Rom. 8.35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (Whether it be understood Actively or Passively, of the love wherewith we love Christ, or the love whereby we are beloved by Christ, is not material, for concerning both we might ask) Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword? 37. Nay, in all these things (, we over-overcome) we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. 38. For I am perswaded,