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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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5. They hearken to God's Commands, and do his Will with all imaginable cheerfulness, love, delight, alacrity, and swiftness: Hence said to have the face of an Eagle, the swiftest of Fowls; and also to have Wings.1 Tertullian saith every Spirit is winged; they can fly in a moment into any part of the World, and that swiftly. And yet Mr. Greenhill saith, as Astronomers observe, That from the Centre of the Earth (which is Three thousand to the Surface) up to the Sun, is above Four Millions of Miles; to the Firmament, where the fixed Stars are, above Fourscore Millions of Miles; and from thence to the place of the blessed Saints and Angels, are more Millions than from the Earth to the Firmament; so that, according to their Account, it must be many Millions of Miles from Heaven to Earth. O then, what was the height or length of this Ladder in my Text! the Foot stood upon the Earth, and the To• re••hed to Heaven! And O what is the swiftness of an Angel that can come from Heaven to the Earth in a moment. Reverend Green•ill notes, That a •ullet •ut of a Musket flies swiftly; i. e. it h•ts the L•rd or Mark before the Report is ⟨p. 99⟩heard, and will fly 180 Miles in one hour, according to its motion: The Sun moves swifter, 160000 Miles in one hour: The fixed Stars about the Equinoctial 42 Millions each hour; and yet, saith he, the Motion of an Angel is swifter, being a Spirit, and passing through the Air without opposition:2 No Creature in Heaven and Earth moves faster than an Angel. Thus Greenhill.
5. They hearken to God's Commands, and do his Will with all imaginable chearfulness, love, delight, al•crity, and swiftness: Hence said to have the face of an Eagle, the swiftest of Fowls; and also to have Wings.