Since God is perfect of Himself, who lacks in no good thing, we should above all else, love Him as the perfect Good.
Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis: The Practice of Godliness – Volume 1, trans. Elmer Hohle, ed. Rachel Melvin (1719; 2nd edn, Malone TX: Repristination Press, 2013), 1.1, p. 39.