favor of God toward the guilty sinner, removing the guilt of his past sins and relieving him of deserved punishment. “Mercy” is the self-moved, spontaneous compassion of God for the miserable and distressed, freeing the sinner from the consequent misery of his sins. The believer stands in constant need of the continued experience of both. “Grace is multiplied for God’s children in a constant shower of undeserved gifts (John 1:16, ‘grace for grace’), and so mercy continues in ever new deliverance