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

Fifthly, To know Jesus Christ whom the Father hath sent implieth the knowledge of these particulars.

1. That he is really and truly God, for how can he be a spiritual Saviour if he be not God? Is it not God only that can raise from the dead? Could mere man satisfy the justice of God, destroy the works of the devil? It's not my purpose here to confirm that main Article of Religion, I only inform you that he who truly knoweth Christ must know him to be God the only begotten of the Father, else he cannot know him as a Jesus, as a Saviour; Therefore howsoever Arians and Socinians talk much of Christ, dispute much of him, yea, mention him in their prayers and Petitions, yet they do not truly know ⟨p. 99⟩Christ, if the Apostle makes it so great a sin to deny Christ to be come in the flesh, to be man, that he saith, he is Antichrist that doth so, 1 Joh. 2.18. then it must needs be a greater sin to deny him to be God, for as he doth a man a greater wrong that denieth him a rational soul, then that denieth a mortal body to him, so he doth in a greater manner dishonour Christ that denieth him to be God then to be man: Shall Christ himself Phil. 2. think it no robbery to be equal with God, and will they make Christ guilty of such robbery? for he assumed to himself both the Title and reality of God.

1. That he is really and truly God, for how can he be a spiritual Saviour if he be not God? Is it not God only that can raise from the dead? Could meer man satisfie the justice of God, destroy the works of the devil? It's not my purpose here to confirm that main Article of Religion, I only inform you that he who truly knoweth Christ must know him to be God the only begotten of the Father, else he cannot know him as a Jesus, as a Saviour; Therefore howsoever Arians and Socinians talk much of Christ, dispute much of him, yea, mention him in their praiers and Petitions, yet they do not truly know