John Owen explains that biblical 'mercy' means God is 'propitious' solely through Christ's work as the definitive propitiation for sin.
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A careful meditation on pardon as the foundation of the new covenant.
Hebrews 8:12 is treated as the great promise of the new covenant, with forgiveness set at the center as the grace on which the rest depends. Owen moves carefully through guilt, pardon, and the legal force of "I will remember no more," reading sin as an obligation to punishment…
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