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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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in governing the whole Creation is very great, but his greatest Wisdom appears in the work of his Redemption, both in respect to the work it self, together with his design and purpose of God therein; well might it be said,1 Behold a Ladder, &c. Wonder! Oh the depths of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! 'Tis called the Riches of God's Wisdom, and the Wisdom of God in a Mystery; But Woe to such as contemn this Wisdom, slight this Wisdom, or assert there is nothing in it a Mystery above humane Reason, how for God thus to love Man, for God to bring his Glory out of the Ashes, wherein it seemed ⟨p. 74⟩buried, and to raise Man so high, that by Sin and the Devil was laid so low; to cause Light to shine out of the thickest Darkness, and to bring Heaven and Earth together again, is Wisdom to be admired! As reverend Charnock observes, It is accounted an admirable point of Wisdom among Men, to unite two Princes at variance, without invading either of their Rights, but entirely preserving them, and to link them together in Bonds of stronger Peace, than they were in before they fell out.
in governing the whole Creation is very great, but his greatest Wisdom appears in the work of his Redemption, both in respect to the work it self, together with his design and purpose of God therein; well might it be said,1 Behold a Ladder, &c. Wonder! Oh the depths of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! 'Tis called the Riches of God's Wisdom, and the Wisdom of God in a Mystery; But Woe to such as contemn this Wisdom, slight this Wisdom, or assert there is nothing in it a Mystery above humane Reason, how for God thus to love Man, for God to bring his Glory out of the Ashes, wherein it seem'd ⟨p. 74⟩buried, and to raise Man so high, that by Sin and the Devil was laid so low; to cause Light to shine out of the thickest Darkness, and to bring Heaven and Earth together again, is Wisdom to be admir'd! As reverend Charnock observes, It is accounted an admirable point of Wisdom among Men, to unite two Princes at variance, without invading either of their Rights, but intirely preserving them, and to link them together in Bonds of stronger Peace, than they were in before they fell out.