Article 20That God hath manifested his justice and mercy in Christ
Reformed Dutch Church English, 1840
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1840 Reformed Dutch Church translation. Source: Wikisource scan transcription.
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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.