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About Divine Love: A Treatise Containing Five Degrees, Five Marks, and Five Aids of the Love of God, Annoted with Loads of Examination Questions

“The measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”

In an age of shallow spirituality and easy religion, Pierre du Moulin’s Divine Love stands as a towering challenge to comfortable Christianity. This 17th-century masterpiece refuses to let us confuse warm feelings about God with genuine love for Him. With surgical precision, Du Moulin exposes the deceptions we practice on ourselves—claiming to love God while living for the world, professing devotion while harboring secret sins, speaking piously while acting carnally. But he does more than diagnose; he prescribes a cure. Through five ascending degrees of love, five authenticating marks, and five practical aids, Du Moulin charts a path from nominal faith to transformative devotion—from loving God for His gifts to loving Him for His glory alone.

This book will:
• Challenge you to examine whether your love for God is real or imagined
• Guide you step-by-step toward deeper intimacy with Christ
• Equip you with practical means to kindle holy passion in your heart
• Transform how you view suffering, relationships, prayer, and Scripture
• Set you on a lifelong journey toward perfect union with God

Translated into contemporary English while preserving its theological depth and devotional fire, Divine Love speaks with fresh urgency to all who long to move beyond religious performance to authentic love for God.

Your soul was made for this love. This book will show you the way.
PIERRE DU MOULIN (1568-1658) was a French Reformed pastor, theologian, and professor whose writings influenced Protestant thought across Europe and the New World. A powerful preacher and prolific
author, he served the Reformed churches for over fifty years during one of Christianity’s most turbulent eras.

ETERNAL BLISS has dedicated years to translating classic Christian works into accessible modern English, making the church’s great spiritual treasures available to contemporary readers.

A PRAYER OF RESPONSE IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK
Before you close this book, pray this prayer—but only if you mean it:
“Search me, O God, and know my heart. I have deceived myself about my love for You. I have claimed devotion while living for myself. I have said I treasured You while treasuring the world. I have called You Lord while refusing Your lordship.
I confess that I am not where I claimed to be on the ladder of love. My affections are disordered. My life does not match my words. I have failed every test this book has given.
But You are the God who kindles love in cold hearts. You give what You command. You make the unwilling willing and the weak strong. Do in me what I cannot do in myself.
Give me a love for You that surpasses my love for comfort, approval, pleasure, and even life itself. Make me hate my sin more than I love my excuses. Give me friends who will wound me with truth. Help me see the world as it truly is—vain, passing, and utterly unable to satisfy.
Teach me to pray with the passion I bring to my earthly pursuits. Make Your Word sweeter to me than my sweetest pleasure. Give me a zeal for Your glory that burns hotter than my concern for my reputation.
I choose today to ascend higher on this ladder of love. I will not remain where I am. I will take the next step, and the next, until I stand before You and love You perfectly in Your presence.
This I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, who loved me enough to die for me and now lives to make me holy. Amen.”

“As the Father loved me, so have I loved you. Remain in my love.” — John 15:9

SAMPLE OF QUESTIONS FOUND IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

THE FOURTH DEGREE: Hating Yourself for God’s Sake
45. What sin do you keep excusing in yourself? What behavior, attitude, or habit are you tolerating that you know grieves God? Why haven’t you killed it yet?
46. Du Moulin says we must “hate our own nature” and make “mortal war” against our desires. Does this describe your fight against sin, or have you negotiated a truce with your flesh?
47. Read Romans 7:24, where Paul cries, “Wretched man that I am!” When was the last time sin made you feel wretched? Or have you grown comfortable with it?
48. What desire of your flesh are you currently indulging that you claim to be powerless over? Be specific. Is God really unable to give you victory, or are you unwilling to pay the cost of obedience?
49. Du Moulin says cutting off sinful desires is like cutting off a hand or plucking out an eye. What sin would you rather keep than lose, even if keeping it costs you intimacy with Christ?
50. Are you jealous of worldly people? When you see unbelievers prospering in sin, do you envy them, or do you pity them as prisoners who don’t know they’re chained?
51. Complete this sentence: “I would give up __________ for Christ, but I will not give up __________.” What’s in that second blank? That’s your Isaac. Will you sacrifice it, or will you fail the test?
52. Do you view your body as a “moving prison” from which you long to escape to be with Christ? Or are you so comfortable in this world that death terrifies you?
53. The martyrs endured torture because “the interior heat of God’s love overcame the heat of the flame.” Would your love for God sustain you through persecution, or would you recant to save your life?
54. What does your fight against sin look like? Do you have “a long and hard combat” with specific strategies and accountability, or do you just vaguely wish you were better?
55. Du Moulin describes the battle between flesh and spirit, between old desires and new life. Can you identify this war raging in you right now? Or has one side won by surrender?

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