BC Article XX: That God hath manifested his justice and…

That God hath manifested his justice and mercy in Christ

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 God, who is perfectly merciful and just, sent his Son to assume that nature, in which the disobedience was committed, to make satisfaction in the same, and to bear the punishment of sin by his most bitter passion and death. God therefore manifested his justice against his Son when he laid our iniquities upon him and poured forth his mercy and goodness on us, who were guilty and worthy of damnation, out of mere and perfect love, giving his Son unto death for us and raising him for our justification, that through Him we might obtain immortality and life eternal.

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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
Original URL: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Belgic_Confession
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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