And 1 will love them no more

And I will love them no more.

By [Love] here is meant, the communication of outward good things, for that carnal hearts account to be the only love of God. Indeed if they may have but outward prosperity here in this world, they make that an argument of God's love to them. Well (says God) though you have had many such kind of arguments of my love, (such fruits of my love) yet I will love you no more, I will take away all those privileges and good things that you have enjoyed. There are privileges and good things that come from no other love but that which may be taken away. Oh! let not us be satisfied with those, let us be satisfied with nothing else but that which comes from everlasting love. You may have your outward estates, you may have comely bodies, health, strength, success in your labors, comings-in plentifully, yes, you may have church privileges, and yet all this not come from the everlasting love of God, that can never be taken away. These fruits of God's love may be taken from you, and God may say as concerning all these, I will love you no more. But there are fruits of love, the sanctifying graces of God's Spirit, the fruits of electing love, and God can never say of these, I will love you no more.