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

First, This Love supposeth the goodness of the Object, as all Love doth: For nothing can be loved, but what is really good, or at least appeareth so unto the Lover. This holy Love therefore being the choicest, chiefest Love, supposeth Christ to be the choicest, and the chiefest Good: That he is a good Saviour, a good Redeemer, a good Lord and Master; a Good excelling, transcending all inferior, sublunary good; Good! not only good, but best; best in himself, and ⟨p. 17⟩best for us. And because he must be loved with such a love, as that we be willing at his call to part with all other good for his sake; therefore he is looked upon, and loved as an universal Good; whereas Riches, Honours, Friends, and all things of this World are but particular good, no one thing good for all things: Meat and drink are good to satisfy your hunger and thirst, but not to clothe you; Clothes are good to cover you, but not to feed you, &c.

Frist, This Love supposeth the goodness of the Object, as all Love doth: For nothing can be loved, but what is really good, or at least appeareth so unto the Lover. This holy Love therefore being the choicest, chiefest Love, supposeth Christ to be the choicest, and the chiefest Good: That he is a good Saviour, a good Redeemer, a good Lord and Master; a Good excelling, transcending all inferior, sublunary good; Good! not only good, but best; best in himself, and ⟨p. 17⟩best for us. And because he must be loved with such a love, as that we be willing at his call to part with all other good for his sake; therefore he is looked upon, and loved as an universal Good; whereas Riches, Honours, Friends, and all things of this World are but particular good, no one thing good for all things: Meat and drink are good to satisfy your hunger and thirst, but not to clothe you; Clothes are good to cover you, but not to feed you, &c.

But the Soul whose love is fixed upon Christ, doth see and say, In poverty Christ will be my riches, in disgrace Christ will be my honour, in bonds and imprisonment Christ will be my liberty, in pain Christ will be my ease, in death Christ will be my life, in the loss of all things Christ will be better to me than the enjoyment of all these things. He that looks not upon Christ as an incomparable Object, doth not love him as he ought.