88. Let us call to mind how kindly our Lord
hath dealt with us, in that He taught us not only faith but manners
also. For, having taken His place in the form of man, He was
subject to Joseph and Mary. S. Luke ii. 51. Was He
less than all mankind, then, because He was subject? The part of
dutifulness is one, that of sovereignty is another, but dutifulness
doth not exclude sovereignty. Wherein, then, was He subject to
the Father’s law? In His body, surely, wherein He was
subject to His mother.