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Article 20: The Justice and Mercy of God in Christ
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We believe that God--
   who is perfectly merciful
   and also very just--
sent his 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.

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