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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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4. Nay, we should behold this Ladder, i.e. Jesus Christ, exclusive of Faith it self, either as an habit,1 or act, or in respect of its being any Condition, or Cause, procuring our Justification;2 or as touching the effects, or fruits of it, or any ways else whatsoever, save only as an Instrument by which we apprehend or receive Jesus Christ:3 For it is not Faith which Justifieth us, but the Object which it apprehends and takes hold of;4 it was not the eye that beheld the brazen Serpent in the Wilderness that healed those that were stung, but the Brazen Serpent, that was beheld or looked unto.
4. Nay, we should behold this Ladder, i.e. Jesus Christ, exclusive of Faith it self, either as an habit,1 or act, or in respect of its being any Condition, or Cause, procuring our Justification;2 or as touching the effects, or fruits of it, or any ways else whatsoever, save only as an Instrument by which we apprehend or receive Jesus Christ:3 For it is not Faith which Justifieth us, but the Object which it apprehends and takes hold of;4 it was not the eye that beheld the brazen Serpent in the Wilderness that healed those that were stung, but the Brazen Serpent, that was beheld or lookt unto.
- 1Eph. 2.8, 9.
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