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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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1Fifthly, For what, or to receive what, should we behold Jesus Christ.
- 1For what we […].For what we 〈…〉.
1. For Reconciliation and Peace with God: All thi••s are of God, 1who reconciled us unto himself […], 2To […], that God was in ⟨p. 85⟩Christ, reconciling the World to himself, not imputing their Trespasses unto them; This is the meriter•ous cause of our Reconciliation: God in Christ, or by his Blood, is Satisfied, and Reconciled; and all that would have peace with God, must Believe, 3or look to Christ, to receive the Atonement: Christ hath received an actual discharge for Sinners from his Father, and you must come to him for it, and receive the Benefit and Evidence of it to your own Consciences: All that the Father hath given me, 4shall come unto me; and whosoever cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out. There is an infallible Connection betwixt Faith and eternal Life; and betwixt Election and the Collection of special Grace;5 and as Election is first, special Vocation will follow; and as many as were ordained to eternal Life, believed. For the Father's gift of the Soul to Christ, and of Grace to believe in him, is no doubt here meant by his giving them to his Son.