Belgic Confession · Article X

That Jesus Christ is true and eternal God

Note. This is the older English translation from the 1793 Constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America. Later translations (for example the Christian Reformed Church's 1985 version) are in modern English and are copyrighted, so they are not used here. Scripture references appear in the text as the translation gives them.

We believe that Jesus Christ, according to his divine nature, is the only begotten Son of God begotten from eternity, not made nor created, (for then he should be a creature) but co-essential and co-eternal with the Father, the express image of his person, and the brightness of his glory, equal unto him in all things. Who is the Son of God, not only from the time that he assumed our nature, but from all eternity, as these testimonies, when compared together, teach us. Moses saith, that God created the world; and John saith, that all things were made by that word, which he calleth God: And the Apostle saith, that God made the worlds by his Son. Likewise, that God created all things by Jesus Christ.—Therefore it must needs follow, that he, who is called God, the Word, the Son and Jesus Christ, did exist at that time when all things were created by him. Therefore the prophet Micah saith, his goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. And the apostle; he hath neither beginning of days, nor end of life: He therefore is that true eternal, and almighty God, whom we invoke, worship, and serve.

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Source
The Belgic Confession
Translation
English translation printed in the Constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America (1793)
Published
1561; revised 1618–1619
Copyright
Public domain.
License
Public domain
Attribution
Public domain: published before 1931. Text taken from the proofread Wikisource transcription of that printing. Compared with a second English text on apuritansmind.com (a lightly modernized version of the same lineage): the two agree in substance and differ in wording, for example 'saith' against 'says'. Not yet proofread against a printed edition.

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