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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. A fullness of Efficiency. Tho we are never so empty, Christ can fill us; tho never so poor, he can enrich us; tho never so weak, he can strengthen us; tho never so Ignorant, he can give us knowledge, tho never so guilty, he can justify us; tho' never so naked, he can clothe us; tho never so sa•• he can rejoice our troubled Hearts: In a word,1 All fullness is in Christ: In him dwelleth the fullness of the God-head, Bodily: Not part of the God-head, (the God-head, the distinguished, cannot be divided) but the whole God-head dwelleth in the Son, as in the Father, and in the Holy Ghost.
5. A fulness of Efficiency. Tho we are never so empty, Christ can fill us; tho never so poor, he can inrich us; tho never so weak, he can strengthen us; tho never so Ignorant, he can give us knowle•ge, tho never so guilty, he can justifie us; tho' never so naked, he can cloathe us; tho never so sa•• he can rejoyce our troubled Hearts: In a word,1 All fulness is in Christ: In him dwelleth the fulness of the God-head, Bodily: Not part of the God-head, (the God-head, the distinguished, cannot be divided) but the whole God-head dwelleth in the Son, as in the Father, and in the Holy Ghost.
- 1Col. 2.9.
Eighteenthly, To Preach Christ, to exalt him, as the Father hath I freed him up▪ and magnified him, is to abase the Creature; 'tis to give all the glory of our Salvation to him, and assume none of it to ourselves. To Preach him only, not to Preach Moses, nor to take the Law from his Mouth, but from the Mouth of Christ, or as it is in Christ's hands; not to Preach Morality, as that which can justify and save us. Not to Preach the Light within all, to be our Saviour: For that is to Preach the Law written in the Heart of Man, it being the substance of that Law written in the Two Tables of Stone. Not to Preach the Decrees of general Councils, or National Synods. Nor to mix our inherent Righteousness, and sincere Obedience; no, nor our Faith with Christ's Righteousness.