Question 36

What fruit reapest thou, by the holie conception and byrth of Christ?

That he is our Mediatour, and by his innocencie and perfect holines, doth couer my sinnes wherein I am conceiued, and keepeth them from comming in the sight of^a God.^b

The vse.

First hereby our faith is greatly confirmed, that he that was made man: is also the Sonne of God: for how shoulde al things not be very true, whatsoeuer he reporteth vnto vs of God, seeing he hath reueiled nothing to vs of God, but what himselfe sawe and knewe? Againe, our hope is also helped, in that he was so made man, that hee also made man God, and vs the sonnes of God, and euen his brethren, wherewith we may comfort our selues vnder the crosse, & in afflictions. Last of all, our mutual loue one toward an other is hereby inflamed: for there is no so evident token of loue, as that the Creator of all things was made for vs a creature, our lord, our brother, the Sonne of God became the Sonne of man: who woulde not then, to the vttermost of his power follow that our mediatour Iesus Christ, that is, his meeknes and kind disposition, who when as there was nothing higher then he, did for our sake cast him felfe so low, that of his own accord he tooke on him the shape of a seruant (that is, our flesh) and that subiect to al infirmities, even to the death of the Crosse.