“Let us love God, I say:
(1) By desiring, panting after, and diligently seeking the presence, possession, union, communion, and enjoyment of Him (Ps. 42:2; 63:1), so that we may be as it were cemented to Him (Ps. 63:8; 1 Cor. 6:17), just as He desires and seeks us (Ps. 119:176).
(2) By hanging all our good on Him (2 Cor. 8:5).
(3) By removing all the evil of sin from His sight (Isa. 1:16), that we may please Him (Rom. 12:1-2; 14:18), and that by His goodness He may remove every evil from us (Ps. 103:3).
(4) By resting in His infinite goodness, as in our sole and entire good (Ps. 16:5-6; 73:25-26), that thus we might not desire Him to be more good or less just, for in both we would deny His infinite goodness (Ex. 34:7).”
–Petrus Van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology: Faith in the Triune God, Volume 2, Trans. Todd Rester, Ed. Joel Beeke (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 2019), 2: 337.
