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The Larger Catechiſm. 13 porting them under all their Temptations and ſuf- ferings, reſtraining and overcoming all their Ene- mies, and powerfully ordering all things for his own Glory p, and their Good q; and alſo in taking Vengeance on the reſt, who know not God, and obey not the Goſpel r. f Acts xv. 14, 15, 16. lv. 4. 5. Gen. xlix. to. Pſal cx. 3. & Eph. iv. 11, 12. 1 Cor. xii. 28. h 18. xxxiit. 22. i Mat. xvii. 17, 18, 1 Cor. v. 4. 5. k 47 v.31. 1 Ret. xxii, 12 & ii, 10. m Rev, ii. 19 n. lſ. lxiii. 9.0 I Cor. xv. 25. Pſal. cx. throughout. p Rom. xiv 10, 11. 9 Rom. viii. 28. r 2 Theſſ.i. 8, 9. Pſal. ii. 8,9. Q. What was the Eſtate of Chriſt's Humiliation ? A. The Eſtate of Chriſt's Humiliation was that low Condition, wherein he, for our Sakes, emptying himſelf of his Glory, took upon him the Form of a Servant, in his Conception and Birth, Life, Death, and after his Death, until his Reſurrection ſ. T Phil. ii. 6, 7, 8, Luke i 31. 2 Cor. viii. 9. Act s ii. 24. Q. How did Chriſt humble himſelf in his Concepti- on and Birth? A. Chriſt bumbled himſelf in his Conception and Birth, in that being from all Eternity, the Son of God, in the Boſom of the Father, he was pleaſed, in the Fulneſs of Time, to become the Son of Man, made of a Woman of low Eſtate, and to be born of her with divers Circumſtances of more than ordi- nary Abaſement t. t John i, 14, 18, Gal. iv. 4. Luke 11, 7. Q. How did Chriſt humble himſelf in his Life? A. Chriſt humbled himſelf in his Life, by ſubjec- ting himſelf to the Law v, which he perfectly ful- filled w: and by conflicting with the Indignities of the World x, Temptations of Satan y, and Infirmi- ties