Sermon on Romans 3:21-31, Belgic Confession, Article 20

We believe that God—

who is perfectly merciful
and also very just—

sent the Son to assume the nature
in which the disobedience had been committed,

in order to bear in it the punishment of sin
by his most bitter passion and death.

So God made known his justice toward his Son,

who was charged with our sin,

and he poured out his goodness and mercy on us,

who are guilty and worthy of damnation,

giving to us his Son to die,

by a most perfect love,

and raising him to life

for our justification,

in order that by him
we might have immortality
and eternal life.