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

Arg. 8. Robbers and Thieves are accursed; Non-Lovers of Christ are Robbers and Thieves. For whose are you? God's, or your own? Whose by right are your Hearts? the World's, or Christ's? Who should have your Love as due, to whom doth it belong, to the World, or Vanity; to Self, or to Christ? that which you purchase, do not you call your own? that which you pay dear for, is it not your own? and would it not be robbery in another, without your Consent, to keep it from you? Hath not Christ bought you with a price given for you, more than you are worth? He made your Hearts to love him, and when you defaced them, and sinned away the love of God, did not Christ buy you? hath not he paid dear to have your Love? might you set your Love upon what you please? might you place it upon what Object you list? for are not you, Body and Soul, Christ's by purchase? 1 Cor. 6.19. What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20. For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Is it not a robbing of Christ, to deny him his own? and is not he that is a Robber of God, and Christ, a cursed Wretch? If thou shouldest rob thy Father, or Mother, or a Stranger, wouldst thou not be accounted a vile Transgressor? how comes it to pass, that thou robbest God, and Christ, and makes no matter of it? ⟨p. 52⟩but God doth. Mal. 3.8. Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me: But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? in tithes and offerings. 9. Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. They are said to rob God in Tithes and Offerings; and you, in your Hearts and Affections. And what is the taking away of Tithes, to the taking away of the Heart, and love thereof: and yet God cursed them with a Curse, that is, certainly accursed them; how then wilt thou escape? God might charge thee, that thou hast played the Thief with him, and hast stolen away thy Love from him; and hast gone and pawned it for a little Silver, or a filthy Lust; and yet hast no mind, nor serious thought for to get it redeemed, or fetched out of pawn.

Arg. 8. Robbers and Thieves are accursed; Non-Lovers of Christ are Robbers and Thieves. For whose are you? God's, or your own? Whose by right are your Hearts? the World's, or Christ's? Who should have your Love as due, to whom doth it belong, to the World, or Vanity; to Self, or to Christ? that which you purchase, do not you call your own? that which you pay dear for, is it not your own? and would it not be robbery in another, without your Consent, to keep it from you? Hath not Christ bought you with a price given for you, more than you are worth? He made your Hearts to love him, and when you defaced them, and sinned away the love of God, did not Christ buy you? hath not he paid dear to have your Love? might you set your Love upon what you please? might you place it upon what Object you list? for are not you, Body and Soul, Christ's by purchase?