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An Exposition of the Assembly's Catechism.
12. I, even I am he that comforteth you ; who art thou, that thou shouldestbe afraid ot a man that shall die, and of the son ifman, which shall be made as grass.
Quest. 27.W Of Christ's Humiliation.
Herein did Christ's humiliation consist ?
A. Christ's humiliation consisted in his be ingborn, and that in a low condition, made under the law,undergoing themiferies of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross ; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.
Q.1. What doth Christ's humbling ofhimselfimport ?
A.His voluntariness in the deepest point of self-denial ; Psal. xl.7. Then said I, Lo,I come ; in the volume of the book it is written of me.
Q. 2. What was the first act of Christ's humiliation ?
A.His taking man's nature on him, with all its finless infirmities ; Rom. viii. 3. God sending his ownS on in the likeness of sinful fieth, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh.
Q. 3. What is the second part of his humiliation?
A. That mean, life he lived in this world,which obscured hisdivineglory ; Mark vi. 3. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?
Q.4. What was the first thing in Christ's life that humbled him?
A. The poverty of it ; Mat. vii. 20. And Jesus faith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the airhavenests ; but the Son of man hath notwhere to lay his head.
९. 5. What was the secondthing in his life that humbled him?
A.The temptations of Sat an, towhichhewas subject ; Mat, iv. 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil, and that for our fakes. Heb. ii. 17 .
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. ver. 18. For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to fuccour them that are tempted.
Q. 6. What was the third thing in Christ life that humbled him?
A. His fubjection to the law; Gal. i. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come,God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Q7. What was the fourth thing in Christ's life that humbled him?
A. The revilings and contradictions of sinners ; Heb. xii.