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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 1
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1. In that he took not into Union with his Divine Nature, the Single Person of any, but th• common Nature of all that Sinned, who shal• be Saved.1 Take here what a worthy Write Notes: If Christ had only taken the Person […] a Man, then there must have been two Persons […] Christ, a Person Assuming, and a Person Assumed, yea, then that only Person which Christ Assumed, should have been advanced, and Saved, […] should have Saved that Person, and no other, […] he had Assumed the Person of a Man; with us the Soul and Body united make a Person, but in Christ the Soul and Body were so united as to have their subsistence, not of themselves, (as in us) but in the God-head: No sooner was the Soul united to the Body, but both Soul and Body had subsistence i• the second Person in the Trinity. So not the Assuming of a Person, but the Nature of Man, common to all,2 &c. He took not the Nature of Angels, b•• the Seed of Abraham: Tho• it was the common Nature ⟨p. 17⟩of all Men, or of all the Sons and Daughter• of Adam, which he took, yet the Holy Ghost calls it the Seed of Abraham, intimating that the design, and purpose of God was, that Christ should die for no more than were comprehended in the Election of Grace; Christ is not a common head to all Adam's Seed; no, but only of them that the Father gave to him.
1. In that he took not into Union with his Divine Nature, the Single Person of any, but th• common Nature of all that Sinned, who shal• be Saved.1 Take here what a worthy Write Notes: If Christ had only taken the Person 〈…〉 a Man, then there must have been two Persons Christ, a Person Assuming, and a Person Assumed, yea, then that only Person which Christ Assumed, should have been advanced, and Saved, should have Saved that Person, and no other, he had Assumed the Person of a Man; with us the Soul and Body united make a Person, but in Christ the Soul and Body were so united as to have their subsistance, not of themselves, (as in us) but in the God-head: No sooner was the Soul united to the Body, but both Soul and Body had subsistance i the second Person in the Trinity. So not the Assuming of a Person, but the Nature of Man, common to all,