Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 5:1

WHosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him.

This is not meant of a meer professed, or of a slight and superficial, but of a lively, efficacious, unitive, Soul-transforming, and obediential Faith in Iesus as the Christ, which is elsewhere made the Effect of the regenerating Power and Grace of God, Iohn 1.12, 13. And as nothing can be more connatural to such an Heaven-born Faith, than the loving of him that hath [illegible: 1 span] nothing can be more certainly consequent [illegible: 1 span] the loving of them too, who are begotten also of the same Father, viz. with a correspondent Love to the more excellent Characters and Image of God upon them, than are upon other Men.

Marginal references: Chap. 2.22, 23. & 4.2, 15.