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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 1
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11. That he might in our Nature perform that perfect Obedience to the holy Law of God, which was required of Mankind; for no Righteousness short of that can Justify us, or carry us to Heaven.
- 1Why Christ is MAN.
2. He must be Man, that he might be capable to Suffer and Dye for Mankind; God considered simply in himself, could not dye.
3. Because the Justice of God required the same Nature which Sinned, to suffer even the same Nature that broke the Law, to dye, and to bear the Wrath of God.
4. He must be Man, that so he might Sympathize with us, or have a feeling of our Infirmities; it must be such a Nature of Man that was clothed with Infirmities, which we have, or are attended with since the Fall, because he came to raise fallen Man: Now our Infirmities are of two sorts.