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This is the great fundamental promise of the covenant of grace, pardon of sin.
Thence learn, That free and underserved grace, in the pardon of sin, is the original spring and foundation of all covenant-mercies and blessings.
Observe farther, How copiously the Spirit of God sets forth the benefits of pardoning grace, I will forgive and forget; I will be merciful, and remember no more; pardoning mercy is full as well as free.
Observe, lastly, The aggravating names here given to sin, it is called unrighteousness, because nothing can be more unequal and unjust, than for man to sin against God his Creator, his ruler and benefactor; and iniquity, or a transgression of the law, and erring and swerving from the rule of holiness, which we are to walk by.
Learn hence, 1. That the aggravations of sin are great and many, which the consciences of convinced sinners ought to have regard unto.
Learn, 2. That we can never understand aright the glory and excellency of pardoning mercy, unless we are convinced of the greatness and vileness of our sins is these several aggravations of them.
Learn, 3. That the covenant of grace fully assures us, that there are riches of grace, and abundance of pardoning mercy in God, which disposes him, for Christ's sake, to be merciful to penitent sinners' unrighteousness, and to remember their transgressions no more, how many and heinous soever they have been.