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Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately…
Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately preached on Genesis XXVIII, XII : wherein the doctrine of free-grace is displayed through Jesus Christ : also discovering the nature, office, and ministration of the holy angels : to which is added one sermon on Rom. 8, 1 : with some short reflections on Mr. Samuel Clark's new book entitled Scripture justification / by Benjamin Keach.Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately preach'd on Genesis XXVIII, XII : wherein the doctrine of free-grace is display'd through Jesus Christ : also discovering the nature, office, and ministration of the holy angels : to which is added one sermon on Rom. 8, 1 : with some short reflections on Mr. Samuel Clark's new book intituled Scripture justification / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by Benja. Harris, 1698
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3. Bless God for Christ, for his devising of such a way to raise us up, who were sunk so low, and had no strength, no skill, no helper, none that could bring us to God, nor find out a way to save our Souls, but God himself only, therefore he saith, Deliver him from going down into the Pit, 1I have found a Ransom.
- 1Job. 23.24.Iob. 23.24.
1Reproof.] This may be also for Reprehension to divers sorts of Persons,
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1. To such that deny the D••ty, or God-head of Jesus Christ: If he be no more than a mere Man, the Ladder is too short to reach up to Heaven: He could not reach so high as to satisfy divine Justice, or to bring us to God, it being through the worth and dignity of his Person, who being an infinite Person, or God over all, there was an infinite Worth and Merit in his Sufferings and Obedience. True, he might have ⟨p. 27⟩saved himself, (being Perfect, never having Sinned, nor broke God's Law,) tho' he had been but a mere Man; but it is from his being God as well as Man. Substituted in our stead, and standing in our Law-place as our great Head and ponser, that gave such Worth and Merit for us by his Obedience, and suffering to the Law and Justice of God. Moreover, how else also could he have overcome Death, the Devil, and all our Enemies, and have raised himself from the Dead? Death would have kept him under it's Power, and he had never came out of the Grave to ascend so high as Heaven to raise us thither.