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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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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, 1and do count them but Dung, that I may win Christ. (Syriac and others, Dog's Meat, refuse cast to Dogs) Thus do all that behold him, (in point of Justification) in comparison of Christ; esteem as nothing all good Works, good Duties flowing from a sanctified Heart; nay all inherit Holiness with Faith it self, in respect of any Trust, and Confidence therein: So much is the object of Faith valued by all that thus behold him.
6. It will draw the Souls of all that thus behold him, to him, and after him, and to follow him whithersoever he goes: When I am lifted up, I will draw all Men to me: When I am beheld on the Cross,