Article 16
We believe that- all Adam's descendants having thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of Adam- God showed himself to be as he is: merciful and just. God is merciful in withdrawing and saving from this perdition t…
Article 17
We believe that our good God, by marvelous divine wisdom and goodness, seeing that Adam and Eve had plunged themselves in this manner into both physical and spiritual death and made themselves completely miserable, set o…
Article 18
So then we confess that God fulfilled the promise made to the early fathers and mothers by the mouth of the holy prophets when he sent the only and eternal Son of God into the world at the time appointed. The Son took th…
Article 19
We believe that by being thus conceived the person of the Son has been inseparably united and joined together with human nature, in such a way that there are not two Sons of God, nor two persons, but two natures united i…
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 a…
Article 21
We believe that Jesus Christ is a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek- made such by an oath- and that he presented himself in our name before his Father, to appease his Father's wrath with full sati…