Admirably fitted are the discoveries of the divine goodness, and the gifts of divine love, to attract us to God, and to cherish the most assured hopes of all that is good in itself, and adapted to our condition. Animated by this, we may come to the throne of grace with holy and steady confidence. We are apt to view God as rather unwilling than otherwise, to communicate the blessings of his covenant; and to consider what is bestowed as drawn from him by the interposition of Christ: But the whole of the mediatorial works of the Saviour is the fruit, and not the cause of his love. The opposite view must destroy all confidence, and infuse a spirit of jealousy and suspicion. Scriptural apprehensions of his character lead us to him as one cheerfully disposed, yea delighted, to do us good.

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