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Belgic Confession, Article 20

That God hath manifested his justice and mercy in Christ.

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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Belgic Confession. Reformed Dutch Church Constitution, G. W. Mentz & Son, Philadelphia, 1840. Reformed Dutch Church Constitution, G. W. Mentz & Son, Philadelphia, 1840

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