Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 4:8
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1 John4:8
8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God ; for God is love .
Yea, since Love is his very Nature, and that God is Love, those that love (upon the account and in the way above expre[illegible: 1 letter]t) are born of him, partake from him that excellent and most delectable Nature, know him by a transformative Knowledg: But they that love not, they are meer Strangers to him, and never had to do with him.
Marginal references: Chap. 2.4. & 3.6.; Vers. 16.
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