Lord’s Day 13, Chapter 3: Our Lord

In the Apostolic Confession, the confession that Jesus Christ is our Lord follows upon the declaration that He is the only begotten Son of God. And thissequence must not be broken or lost sight of in the explanation of the phrase nostrum Dominum, our Lord. The lordship of Jesus Christ over His Church as a whole, and over believers individually, is the lordship of the only begotten Son of God. It is true that in the way of sin and grace this lordship receives a new and deeper meaning. For the...