Belgic Confession · Chapter 9

The truth of the foregoing article of the trinity of persons in one God

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1. All this we know, as well from the testimonies of holy writ as from their operations, and chiefly by those we feel in ourselves. The testimonies of the holy scriptures, that teach us to believe this holy trinity, are written in many places of the old testament, which are not so necessary to enumerate, as to choose them out with discretion and judgment. In Genesis, chap. i. 26, 27, God saith: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, &c. So God created man in his own image, male and female created he them.^a And Gen. iii. 22. Behold, the man has become as one of us.^b From this saying, let us make man in our image, it appears that there are more persons than one in the Godhead: and when he saith, God created, signifies the unity. It is true he doth not say how many persons there are, but that, which appears to us somewhat obscure in the old testament, is very plain in the new.

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