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

VII. Not love Christ! is not this damnable contemning and despising of him? Is it not a setting him at nought? it is spoken of Christ, Psal. 22 6. A reproach of men, and despised of the people. And Isa. 53.3. He is despised and rejected of men.— He was despised, and we esteemed him not. The Septuagint translate the word by [Greek or Hebrew], which is used of Christ ⟨p. 111⟩in the New Testament, Luke 23.11. And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him—. Act. 4.11. This was the stone which was set at nought by you builders—. What we greatly love, we highly value: what we love not at all, we value not at all, and that we do despise. And is it not sin enough to despise the People of God, but wilt thou also despise the Son of God? not enough to despise the Word and Ways of God, but wilt thou add this to it, to despise the only begotten Son of God? Not to love, and to despise, is all one; Matth. 6.24. No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Is this no evil in thine eyes? Is Christ that is honoured by the Father, contemned by thee? Is he the joy of Angels, the delight of Saints, and is he thus set at nought by thee? Is he the Pearl of great price, and dost thou look upon him to be nullius pretii, of no worth? Is he the chiefest of ten thousands, and dost thou thus disdain and vilify him, as if he were the meanest of ten thousands? Canst thou value thy Riches, and love them, and not Christ? Canst thou value thy Relations, and love them, and not Christ? Behold, in comparison of Riches, Children, Life, thou despisest Christ, when thou shouldst despise these in comparison of Christ. He that despiseth the word, shall be destroyed, Prov. 13.13. He that despiseth his neighbour, s•• neth;