Lord’s Day 21, Chapter 6: The Forgiveness of Sins (2) / Chapter 1: Our House in Heaven (1)

6. The Forgiveness of Sins (continued) In God, this act of mercy, whereby He ordained His Son to be the head of the Church, so that He represented them in the hour of judgment, and might bear their sins and iniquities, is eternal. For in God's eternal counsel, Christ is the firstborn of every creature, and that, too, as the head of His Church, and as the firstborn from the dead. And, therefore, there is, there eternally is, forgiveness with God, and there is no condemnation, there never was,...