If God] Or, Seeing God. For he doth not doubt whether God loveth us or no, but infers from Gods love to us, that we ought to love others. See the like phrase, 1 Pet. 4. 18. so loved us] If he, being so great, so freely loved us, vile, wretched, unworthy and ungratefull persons, as not onely to give his creatures to us, but also his Son to death for us, we ought to love others, that differ not so much from us, though they deserve it not of us. See on v. 10. They may do us good hereafter, we cannot to God.