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

2. To know Jesus Christ is to acknowledge him man as well as God, for this was his name given him by the Angel, when he was born, so that he only knoweth Christ who acknowledgeth him both God and man, as the Scripture sometimes calls him the only begotten Son of God, so sometimes the Son of man, and many places in Scripture speak of both his natures, Rom. 9.5. who concerning the flesh, was of the Seed of Abraham, and yet he is God for evermore, concerning the flesh, that is spoken oppositely to his divine nature, so that to deny the humane nature of Christ, though we should affirm he was God, yet this is not to know Christ, Therefore the Marcionists and some Anabaptists who said he had not a true real body, that he was only in the appearance of a man, They do not know Christ.

2. To know Jesus Christ is to acknowledge him man as well as God, for this was his name given him by the Angel, when he was born, so that he only knoweth Christ who acknowledgeth him both God and man, as the Scripture sometimes cals him the only begotten Son of God, so sometimes the Son of man, and many places in Scripture speak of both his natures, Rom. 9.5. who concerning the flesh, was of the Seed of Abraham, and yet he is God for evermore, concerning the flesh, that is spoken oppositely to his divine nature, so that to deny the humane nature of Christ, though we should affirm he was God, yet this is not to know Christ, Therefore the Marcionists and some Anabaptists who said he had not a true reall body, that he was only in the appearance of a man, They do not know Christ.

3. To know Jesus Christ implieth also that we have some understanding of his Offices; Of his anointing with all sufficiency and fullness, to be a Mediator for us; He that saith he knows Christ, and doth not acknowledge him anointed by God, with all fullness to be a Mediator for us, saith, he knoweth not what; Now the ignorance of Christs Office, and his fullness therein doth wonderfully abound in Popery; The devil in former times opposed the natures of Christ, when he could no longer succeed that way, then he opposeth the Offices of Christ, all those doctrines of merits, indulgences, and satisfactions do oppose the Offices of Christ, for if Christ be the Messiah, if he be the full Mediator, to what purpose are all these? Although therefore in Popery there is the true doctrine retained about Christs Natures, he is acknowledged to be God and man, yet in respect of his Offices there is a total burying of him in silence: Angels and Saints merits and indulgences have even almost put out the very Name of Christ amongst them, so then all acknowledging that Christ is not enough, it must be a Scripture-confessing of him; We must give him his full due, not make him half a Mediator, half a Saviour, and join' our selves or others in this great work.