Thomas Boston, Works, 2:563:
God is ready and willing to help us, and we should come to him in that confidence; Matt. 7:11, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” We should pour out our hearts into his bosom, in full confidence of his pity. Whom can a child expect help of, if not of a father? But no father has the bowels of compassion that God has towards his own. If the mother’s tenderness towards the child be ordinarily greater than that of the father’s, yet the Lord is still more; Isa. 49:15, 16, “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me.” And there is no such present help as he is.
God is ready and willing to help us, and we should come to him in that confidence; Matt. 7:11, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” We should pour out our hearts into his bosom, in full confidence of his pity. Whom can a child expect help of, if not of a father? But no father has the bowels of compassion that God has towards his own. If the mother’s tenderness towards the child be ordinarily greater than that of the father’s, yet the Lord is still more; Isa. 49:15, 16, “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me.” And there is no such present help as he is.