John Nevay, The Nature, Properties, Blessings, and Saving Graces, of the Covenant of Grace, Opened and Applied, in LII Sermons, on 2 Samuel xxiii. 5 (Glasgow, 1748), p. 205

It appeareth that Forgiveness of Sin is and must be a covenanted Mercy, from these Reasons, 1st. The Covenant is a Covenant of Mercy, and it is the Flower of Mercy: God in the Covenant is the Father of Mercies, 2 Cor. i.…