increase my joy and satisfaction in him? 1. Are love for God and self-love compatible, as Christian hedonists teach?“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” Baxter admits there is a real danger that self-love will deceive the believer: “Be always suspicious,” he wrote, “of carnal self-love, and watch against it—for that is the burrow or fortress of sin.”[6] Yet he recognized in Scripture a kind of self-love that is consistent with loving God. “Yet it is not a sin to love God