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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 47. How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
A. Christ humbled 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 fullness 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 ordinary abasementt.
A. Christ humbled 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 ordinary abasementt.
Q. 48. How did Christ humble himself in his life?