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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 4
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3. They all wait upon God, and behold his Face and Glory; they are round about his Throne; they all worship, and fall down before their blessed Lord, and attend on him as Servants of their most glorious and blessed Master, their most high and exalted Sovereign: I saw also the Lord sitting upon a […],1 high, and lifted up, and his Train fi•••d the Temple, verse 1. And above it stood the Seraphims: and one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Host•, &c. Called Scrap•ims, signifying fire, or burning: (1.) Denoting their Nature is bright and glorious, subtle and pure. (2.) Their Property; full of zeal, and fervent. (3.) Their Once, which here was to execute God's vengeance upon the Jews, and to burn them up, and consume them as dross.
3. They all wait upon God, and behold his Face and Glory; they are round about his Thr•ne; they all worship, and fall down before their blessed Lord, and attend on him as Servants of their most glorious and blessed Master, their most high and exalted Sovereign: I saw also the Lord sitting upon a 〈…〉,1 high, and lifted up, and his Train fi•••d the Templ•, verse 1. And above it stood the S•ra•hims: and one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Host•, &c. Called Scrap•ims, signifying fire, or burning: (1.) Denoting their Nature is bright and glorious, subtil and pure. (2.) Their Property; full of zeal, and fervent. (3.) Their Once, which here was to execute God's vengeance upon the Jews, and to burn them up, and consume th•m as dross.
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