Heidelberg Catechism.
time and eternity, as He has declared: Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. 2, 17.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebr. 10, 31.
QUESTION 11.
Is then God not also merciful?
ANSWER.
God is indeed merciful, but He is likewise just; wherefore His justice requires that sin, which is committed against the most high majesty of God, be also punished with extreme, that is, with everlasting punishment both of body and soul.
The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exod. 34, 6. 7. Rom 2, 5, 6.
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