Love in the creature ever presupposeth some good, true or apparent in the thing loved, by which the affection of union is drawn.  But the love of God on the contrary, causeth all good to be produced in the creature.  He first loveth us in the free purpose of His Will, and thence worketh good for us and in us.  And hence come the unchangeableness of God’s love towards us, because it is founded in Himself, and in the stableness of the good pleasure of His own Will.  And although we may be comforted as we observe our love to Him; yet it is far greater comfort drawn from the consideration of His love to us; as being not only the ground of the other, but in Him also infinite, and unchangeable.  And, hereupon, it was that the sisters of Lazarus seeking help for their sick brother sent Christ word, not that he, who loved Him, but that “he whom He loved, was sick.”