What he here means by the forbidden object of our love, must be gathered from his own explication, 1 John 2:16. The love itself forbidden, in reference thereto, is that excess thereof, whereby any adhere to terrene things, as their best good; wherewith, as he adds, any sincere love to God is inconsistent, as Matthew 6:24 Luke 14:3: a consideration so awful and tremendous, that it is not strange the precept it enforces should have so solemn and urgent an introduction.
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1 John 2:15
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.