If we remember it, God will forget it. For sin confessed becomes less, but not confessed worse. But his father did not act thus. It is a great good to acknowledge our sins, and to bear them in mind continually. Nothing so effectually cures a fault, as a continual remembrance of it.
Nothing makes a man so slow to wickedness.
Assuredly he is worthy of compassion and kindness who has sinned. Let us say it not with the tongue only, but also with the mind. Confess these things before God. If thou keep thy sins continually in remembrance, thou wilt never bear in mind the wrongs of thy neighbor. Let us then write them in our minds.