view of the case. No, we may trust him if he has promised; but is the promise, after all, the real ground of our confidence? Does not our confidence in the promise arise from our knowledge of Him from whose lips it has come? God is true, and God is love, must ever be the basis of our trust. It is a blessed thing to have so many of his gracious words; but what are these if separated from himself? Take them as so many legal deeds which we could enforce by law, and they are barren as well as cold. Take