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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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Brethren, Christ is a Priest, and as a Priest he is the Antitype of Jacob's-Ladder; and as so considered, he is exalted on high; for in and by this Office he brings God and Man, Heaven and Earth together; I mean by that Atonement he hath made by his bloody Sacrifice; It pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himself, whether they be things on Earth, 1or things in Heaven. Heaven and Earth are not at a farther distance from each other, as Naturally we are unto God, in respect of our state and Spirits,2 such Enmity is in the hearts of all unrenewed Sinners against God; but saith the Apostle; But now in Christ Jesus ye that were afar off are made near by the Blood of Christ. 3The way is by his Death, by his Blood which was shed upon the Earth; here we were, and here is the Foot of the Ladder. God's Justice requires an infinite Satisfaction, and Christ being God, reached Heaven; i. e. the full demands of divine Justice: Such a Days-Man we needed, who layeth his hands upon both. By his being ⟨p. 43⟩a Priest in his o••ering up that one Sacrifice he reconciled God to us,4 and by his Spirit he reconciles us to God, by his applying and making the Atonement efficacious, or effectual to us,5 that in the dispensation of the fullness of time, he might gather together in one, all things in Christ.
Brethren, Christ is a Priest, and as a Priest he is the Antitype of Jacob's-Ladder; and as so considered, he is exalted on high; for in and by this Office he brings God and Man, Heaven and Earth together; I mean by that Attonement he hath made by his bloody Sacrifice; It pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himself, whether they be things on Earth, 1or things in Heaven. Heaven and Earth are not at a farther distance from each other, as Naturally we are unto God, in respect of our state and Spirits,