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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 › APPLICATION.
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3. It will cause you to behold great Beauty and excellencies in him: To you that believe, 1he is precious: Yea, doubtless, I count all things loss for the excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord. 2You will say then, that he is the chiefest among ten Thousands, and altogether Lovely.
- 1Pet. 2.7. Phil. 3.•.•.
- 2C••t. 5.10 16,
4. It will change you into his own Image; this look is of a Soul-transforming Nature; but we all, 1beholding as in a glass the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image, from glory, to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
5. This beholding of Christ, will cause you to contemn all things here below, and to account them as nothing, nay worse than nothing in comparison of him; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,