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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
CHRIST ALONE THE Way to Heaven: OR, JACOB'S LADDER IMPROVED, &c. › Sermon 4
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7. They are employed to guide and lead us along on this Ladder, that so we may not fa••:1 He will send his Angel before thee, and […] hold (saith God) my Angel sh•• […]. Angel was to lead him all the way […] they lead us all the way to ••aven, even […] we step the last step of the Ladder.
7. They are imploy'd to guide and lead us along on this Ladder, that so we may not fa••:1 He will send his Angel before thee, and 〈…〉 hold (saith God) my Angel sh•• 〈…〉. Angel was to lead him all the way 〈…〉 they lead us all the way to ••aven, even 〈…〉 we step the last step of the Ladder.
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8. God, in governing the World, and his People in it, makes use of Angels; they lead sometimes a poor Soul, perhaps, into a godly Family, or […] the Company of a gracious Person; and so he, by that means, is converted, and his Feet set upon the Ladder, or brought to believe on Jesus Christ; or Persons are by their Ministration perhaps brought into a Meeting or an Assembly of God's People unexpectedly, which proves their Conversion: Or may be an Angel may smite a notorious Sin with Sickness, at God's Command, to awaken others with sudden Death.