Matthew Poole and continuators on John 14:21

21 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me : and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest my self to him .

Our Lord here doth repeat what he had before said, ver. 15 declaring that there is no infallibile indication of our love to Christ, but obedience, which is here exprest under two Notions. 1. Having Christs commandments and keeping them, they must both concur to make a true indication of our love to Christ: It is possible that men may have Christs Commandments in their Ears, in their Notion, in their mouths, and yet not keep them; they may hear them, they may know and remember them, they may talk of them, yet they may not keep them; for keeping them denotes universal, diligent, and industrious, steady, and constant obedience to them; and this alone will speak our love to Christ:

And if any man thus declareth his love to Christ, Christ declareth, that both he and his father, will take pleas[illegible: 2 letters]e and delight in him to do him good:

and he shall not live onely under the real benefits of his love to him, but under the sensible manifestations of it. Here is no mention of the Spirits coming with the Father and the Son, because the Son dwelleth in us by the Spirit.

Marginal references: 1 John 2.5. and 5.3.