Exodus 20:5
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- #HC11 But is God not also merciful? God is indeed merciful, but He is also just. His justice requires that sin committed against the most high majesty of God also be punished with the most severe, that is, with everlasting, punishment o...
- #AOC11 Is not God therefore merciful? Yea, Verily he is merciful; but so, that he is also just: wherefore his Justice requireth that the same which is committed against the divine Majesty of God, should also be recompenced with extream, t...
- #HC12 Since, according to God’s righteous judgment we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, how can we escape this punishment and be again received into favour? God demands that His justice be satisfied. Therefore full payment must be made either by ourselves or by another.
- #BC21 Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell? The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called origin...