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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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CHRIST ALONE THE Way to Heaven: OR, JACOB'S LADDER IMPROVED, &c. › Sermon 3
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13. Moreover, this new Nature which is wrought in them, causes them to have more noble, high, and sublime Ends and Aims, than all others have: 'Tis not their own honour, nor their own profit they seek, but it is the honour and glory of God they Aim at; God, who is at the Top of the Ladder,2 as the end of their Journey; (as is said before) God beloved i• their last end, it is to reach him,3 enjoy him for evermore, they mount up on high.
- 12 Cor, 4, 18,
- 2•sal, 73, 25,
- 3Isa, 40.31,
Fifthly, They are Elevated, or highly Advanced and Exalted, in that they have such a Sublime, Mystical, and intimate Union with God and Jesus Christ: He that is Joined to the Lord, is one Spirit. 1There is, saith a Reverend Writer, no stricter Union in the World, than that of ⟨p. 65⟩Christ and Believers; it is therefore compared to all sorts of Unions, Natural, and Political. He is the Head, they the Members; he is the Root, they the Branches; he the Husband, they the Wife: 'Tis so firm, so strong a Union intensively, that Christ and a Regenerate Man becomes one Spirit, as if there was but one Soul in two Bodies; what the Spirit doth in Christ, it doth also in a Believer, according to the capacity of his Soul; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One.