Q.E.D.
Corollary .-- Love towards God cannot be turned into hate.
Note .-- It may be objected that, as we understand God as the cause of all things, we by that very fact regard God as the cause of pain.

But I make answer, that, in so far as we understand the causes of pain, it to that extent (V.iii.) ceases to be a passion, that is, it ceases to be pain (III.

lix.); therefore, in so far as we understand God to be the cause of pain, we to that extent feel pleasure.
PROP.XIX.

He, who loves God, cannot endeavour that God should love him in return.
Proof .-- For, if a man should so endeavour, he would desire (V.
xvii.

Coroll.) that God, whom he loves, should not be God, and consequently he would desire to feel pain (III.