ANSW. 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.
QUEST. XLVII. _How did Christ humble himself in his conception and
birth?_
ANSW. Christ humbleth himself in his conception, 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 abasement.