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An Exposition of the Affembly's Catechism.
12. I, even I am he that comforteth you ; who art thou, that thou ſhouldeſtbe afraid ot a manthat ſhall die, andofthe fon ifman, which ſhallbe made as graſs.
Queft. 27.W OfChrist's Humiliation.
Herein did Chriſt's humiliation confift ?
A. Christ's humiliation conſiſted in his be ingborn, andthat in a low condition, madeunder the law,undergoing themiferies ofthis life, the wrath ofGod, and the cursed death of the cross ; in being buried, and continuing under the power ofdeathfor a time.
Q.1. What doth Chriſt's humbling ofhimselfimport ?
A.His voluntarineſs in the deepest point of ſelf-denial ; Pfal. xl.7. Then faid I, Lo,Icome ; inthe volumeofthe book it is written of me.
Q. 2. Whatwas the first act of Chriſt's humiliation ?
A.His taking man's nature onhim, with all its finleſs infirmities ; Rom. viii. 3. Godſending his ownSon in the likeneſs of finful fieth, and for fin condemned fin inthe fleſh.
Q. 3. What is the ſecond part ofhis humiliation?
A. That mean, lifehe lived in this world,which obſcured hisdivineglory ; Mark vi. 3. Is not this the carpenter, the fon ofMary?
Q.4. Whatwas the first thing in Chriſt's life thathumbled him?
A. The povertyof it ; Mat. vii. 20. And Jeſus faith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the airhaveneſts ; buttheSon ofman hath notwhere to layhis head.
९. 5. What was the ſecondthing inhis life that humbled him?
A.Thetemptations ofSatan, towhichhewas ſubject ; Mat, iv. 1. Thenwas Jeſus led up ofthe Spirit into the wildernefs, tobe temptedof the devil, and that for our fakes. Heb. ii. 17 .
Wherefore in allthings it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. ver. 18. For in that he himself hath fuffered, beingtempted, he is able to fuccour them that are tempted.
Q. 6. What was the third thing inChriſt life that humbledhim?
A. His fubjection to the law; Gal. i. 4. But when the fulneſs ofthe time was come,God fent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Q7. What was the fourth thing in Chriſt's life that humbledhim?
A. The revilings and contradictions of finners ; Heb. xii.