And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Come thou long expected Jesus
Born to set thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.
Israel’s strength and consolation,
Hope of all the earth Thou art;
Dear desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.
“Though our communion with Christ may be lessened, yet the union and the bond of conjunction is never dissolved.”
William Perkins, A Reformed Catholic.
@2LCF1677 I meant it in the way that Owen does in the quote I replied to the poll with. That it wasn’t because of anything in the human nature of Christ that God saw inherently meritorious, but by pure grace and wisdom that His humanity was chosen to be united to the divine nature.
@2LCF1677 Ah bummer I said by grace because I thought it was asking if it was by grace or nature that the humanity of Christ was united to the Word as the Son of God.
@2LCF1677 Christ that it was predestinated and chosen unto the grace of the hypostatical union, with the ministry and glory which depended thereon, but of the mere sovereign grace of God; how much less could a foresight of any thing in us be the cause why God should…