Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Humiliation is that base, and voluntary condition of Christ, God-man upon earth; whereby he debased himself, as touching both Natures, that he might both die, and by dying satisfy: as touching his Divine Nature, he debased himself, both by a voluntary subjection of his Person, and by a hiding of his glory, and majesty before men, for the time: as touching his Human Nature, both by taking unto him the Infirmity of our Nature; and secondly, by his most humble Obedience of Life, and Death.
Exaltation is the condition of Christ, God-man, whereby he was advanced into the glory and dignity, which was meet, or convenient for the person of a Mediator, and that according to both natures; according to the divine nature by relation, or by a divine manifestation of that majesty which he hid, during the time of his abasement; according to the human; partly, by the deposition of his servile condition, and partly by the receiving gifts, in body & in soul, concurring together unto the perfection and blessedness of his human nature, above all nature. ...
For more, see Lucas Trelcatius on Christ’s humiliation and exaltation.
Exaltation is the condition of Christ, God-man, whereby he was advanced into the glory and dignity, which was meet, or convenient for the person of a Mediator, and that according to both natures; according to the divine nature by relation, or by a divine manifestation of that majesty which he hid, during the time of his abasement; according to the human; partly, by the deposition of his servile condition, and partly by the receiving gifts, in body & in soul, concurring together unto the perfection and blessedness of his human nature, above all nature. ...
For more, see Lucas Trelcatius on Christ’s humiliation and exaltation.
