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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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5. This of looking upwards, may signify a Believer's Hope and Expectation: Their Hope is in Heaven, not in this Life; If our Hope be only in this Life, 1we are of all Men most miserable. As they are born from above, so they are travelling thither; their Faces are set heaven-ward, Heaven is their Inheritance. They seek an heavenly Country; men of the World have their eyes downwards. A man that looks downward that climbs up a Ladder, is in danger of falling; however, he must make a pause, or stand still, but a Believer must go on his way, he must not look back, nor stand still, but press forwards, as Paul did. He must not look back.
5. This of looking upwards, may signify a Believer's Hope and Expectation: Their Hope is in Heaven, not in this Life; If our Hope be only in this Life, 1we are of all Men most miserable. As they are born from above, so they are travelling thither; their Faces are set heaven-ward, Heaven is their Inheritance. They seek an heavenly Countrey; men of the World have their eyes downwards. A man that looks downward that climbs up a Ladder, is in danger of falling; however, he must make a pause, or stand still, but a Believer must go on his way, he must not look back, nor stand still, but press forwards, as Paul did. He must not look back.
Fourteenthly, A Ladder is a narrow way to go upon, and it is a difficult thing to travel all day upon it.