If God to man a promise make

If God to man a promise make,
Our hearts may well be still,
His truth and justice are at stake
And must his word fulfil:
With humble faith’s simplicity
The means to God we leave;
Deceiv’d himself He cannot be,
He cannot us deceive.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Yet he promised that he would give it to him, and to his seed, when as yet he had no child.’—[Acts 7,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 202.
Publishing: Public Domain