12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.



Ver. 12. I will be merciful] I will be propitious through Christ, the propitiation for our sins, 1Jn_2:2.



To their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities] All kinds and degrees of sins, Exo_34:6-7 Mic_7:17. All sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven to the sons of men Mat_12:31. I was a blasphemer, saith Paul (that was a grievous sin against the first table), I was a persecutor (that was a great sin against the second table), yet I obtained mercy; why then should any one despair



Will I remember no more] Nihil oblivisci solet praeter iniurias, saith Cicero of Caesar. He was wont to forget nothing but shrewd turns. And of our Henry VI it is storied that he was of that happy memory that he never forgat anything but injury. (Daniel Contin. by Trussel.) Let us but remember our sins with grief, and God will forget them. Let us see them to confession, and we shall never see them to our confusion. He is a forgiving God, Neh_9:31. None like him for that, Mic_7:18. He doth it naturally, Exo_20:6; abundantly, Isa_55:7; constantly, Psa_130:4; Joh_1:27; Mal_3:6.