I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 8:12. God’s love for the fallen race is a peculiar manifestation of love—a love born of mercy; for human beings are all undeserving. Mercy implies the imperfection of the object toward which it is shown. It was because of sin that mercy was brought into active exercise. Sin is not the object of God’s love, but of His hatred. But He loves and pities the