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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirteenthly, He that climbs up a Ladder looks upwards as he goes; he does not turn his eyes down towards the Earth, for that is dangerous.
So he that sets out in the way to Heaven by Jesus Christ, must look up; his eye must be set on Heavenly things;1 While we look not at things that are seen, but at things that are not seen, &c.
1. This look my Brethren may refer to his Understanding; his Understanding is enlightened; it is opened to see the Nature and Excellency of Heavenly things: That the eyes of your Understanding being enlightened, 1that ye may know what is the ⟨p. 30⟩Hope of your Calling, and what is the Riches of the Glory of his Inheritance in the Saints. What the Eye is to the Body, that the Understanding is to the Soul.
1. This look my Brethren may refer to his Underderstanding; his Understanding is enlightened; it is open'd to see the Nature and Excellency of Heavenly things: That the eyes of your Ʋnderstanding being enlighthed, 1that ye may know what is the ⟨p. 30⟩