Jonathan Edwards on the Love of God
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections 6
Love is an affection, but will any Christian say, men ought not to love God and Jesus Christ in a high degree?
Fear is cast out by the Spirit of God, no other way than by the prevailing of love; nor is it ever maintained by his Spirit but when love is asleep.
What chiefly makes a man, or any creature lovely, is his excellency; and so what chiefly renders God lovely, and must undoubtedly be the chief ground of true love, is his excellency.
The saint's affections begin with God; and self-love has a hand in these affections consequentially, and secondarily only.
The saints' love to God is the fruit of God's love to them, as it is the gift of that love.
The saints desire the sincere milk of the word, not so much to testify God's love to them, as that they may grow thereby in holiness.