John 3:16

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• #HC17 Why must He at the same time be true God? He must be true God so that by the power of His divine nature He might bear in His human nature the burden of God’s wrath, and might obtain for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
• #AOC17 Why must he also be very God? That he might by the Power of his Godhead sustain in his flesh the burthen of God’s wrath, and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
• #HC20 Are all men, then, saved by Christ just as they perished through Adam? No. Only those are saved who by a true faith are grafted into Christ and accept all His benefits.
• #WLC32 How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant? The grace of God is manifested in the second covenant, in that he freely provideth and offereth to sinners a Mediator, and life and salvation by him; and requiring faith as the condition to interest t...
• #AOC32 For what cause is Christ called the only begotten Son of God, when we also are the Sons of God? Because Christ alone is the eternal and natural Son of the eternal Father, and we are but Sons adopted of the Father by Grace for his sake.
• #HC33 Why is He called God’s only begotten Son, since we also are children of God? Because Christ alone is the eternal, natural Son of God. We, however, are children of God by adoption, through grace, for Christ’s sake.
• #HC37 What do you confess when you say that He suffered? During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race. Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sac...
• #WLC55 How doth Christ make intercession? Christ maketh intercession, by his appearing in our nature continually before the Father in heaven, in the merit of his obedience and sacrifice on earth, declaring his will to have it applied to all b...
• #AOC73 Seeing the Infants of Believers are in the Covenant of Grace with their Parents, as some say, why may not they be baptized under the Gospel, as well as Abrahams Infant Seed was circumcised under the Law? By the Infants of Believers being in the Covenant of Grace, it must either be meant of the Covenant of Grace absolutely considered, and if so, then there is no total and final Apostacy of any Infant s...
• #WLC153 What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law? That we may escape the wrath and curse of God due to us by reason of the transgression of the law, he requireth of us repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, and the diligent us...