CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Fourthly, Hence, in that Christ doth thus determinately pray for every individual believer; It's a plain Argument that he is God, as well as man: For how could those things be as present to him, which yet were many years to come, if he was not God, Act. 15.18. Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world. Thus Christ being God as well as man, to him was known the state and condition of every believer, not only before he was born, but before the world had a being: Therefore from hence it may be properly ⟨p. 534⟩gathered, that even to the humane nature of Christ was revealed the number of those persons, whose salvation he was to procure: So that Christ as man, as well as God, knew who they were that should believe in him. It's true, Omniscience could not be communicated to the humane nature, as the Orthodox maintain against the Lutherans, neither was the knowledge of all things revealed to it, but as the Son of man, he knew not the day of Judgement when it should determinately be; and the nescience of this was not any sin in him, yet the revelation of this to his humane nature, viz. who they were that he should die for, seemeth to be more necessary, even as Divines say, The humane nature of Christ, shall by revelation from the Divine at the day of Judgement, know all the thoughts and secrets of mans heart, that so he may be the great Judge of the world in both his Natures, howsoever here is a clear argument, that Christ is God as well as man, and that his Godhead concurreth to the work of our Redemption.

Fourthly, Hence, in that Christ doth thus determinately pray for every individual believer; It's a plain Argument that he is God, as well as man: For how could those things be as present to him, which yet were many years to come, if he was not God, Act. 15.18. Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world. Thus Christ being God as well as man, to him was known the state and condition of every believer, not only before he was born, but before the world had a being: Therefore from hence it may be properly ⟨p. 534⟩gathered, that even to the humane nature of Christ was revealed the number of those persons, whose salvation he was to procure: So that Christ as man, as well as God, knew who they were that should believe in him. It's true, Omnisciency could not be communicated to the humane nature, as the Orthodox maintain against the Lutherans, neither was the knowledge of all things revealed to it, but as the Sonne of man, he knew not the day of Judgement when it should determinately be; and the nescience of this was not any sin in him, yet the revelation of this to his humane nature, viz. who they were that he should die for, seemeth to be more necessary, even as Divines say, The humane nature of Christ, shall by revelation from the Divine at the day of Judgement, know all the thoughts and secrets of mans heart, that so he may be the great Judge of the world in both his Natures, howsoever here is a clear argument, that Christ is God as well as man, and that his Godhead concurreth to the work of our Redemption.