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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	instrument_n	justification_n	2,903	5	9.7467	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47437	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing K53; ESTC R24422	80,847	121

in before he fell Every Believer is made hereby a Son or Daughter of God born of God adopted by the Free-grace of God and made an Heir of God nay married to the Son of God and cloathed with the Righteousness of God or with 〈◊〉 Righteousness who is God and from this State can never fall So mu●h as to the First thing proposed i. e In what respects this Ladder Jesus Christ should be b●held Secondly I shall shew you how or in what respect we should behold Jesus Christ. First Exclusively or by way of opposition to all other Objects or Things We should behold Jesus Christ as our only Saviour exclusive of all other Ways Object or Means of obtaining eternal Life whatsoever 1. Exclusively or in Opposition to the Law and the Righteousness any can obtain by their own personal Obedience thereunto we ought to behold Jesus Christ Some in the Apostles time expected Justification by their own Obedience to the moral and ceremonial Law but Israel that followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of R●ghteousness vers 31. Wherefore because they sought it not by Faith but as it were by the works of the Law for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone vers 32. They being ignorant of Gods Righteousness and going about to establish their own Righteousness have not submitted themselves to the Righteousness of God That is by their personal and own inherent Righteousness 2. Exclusive of all our Works or Righteousness done by us or wrought in us as part ●f the matter of our Justification before God or as any procuring Cause or Condition of our Justification and eternal Life For since all Boasting is excluded all Works done by us and Righteousness wrought in us are excluded but all Boasting is excluded c. Where is boasting then it is excluded by what Law of Works nay but by the Law of Faith 3. Exclusive of any other Sacrifice for Sin or Mediators The Papists look to their own vain Sacrifices Offerings and Pennance an● seek to other Mediators also to the detracting from the worth and satisfactory Sacrifice of Christ once for all but as there is but one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus so there is but one Propiciatory Sacrifice which he offered up upon the Cross. 4. Nay we should behold this Ladder i.e. Jesus Christ exclusive of Faith it self either as an habit or act or in respect of its being any Condition or Cause procuring our Justification or as touching the effects or fruits of it or any ways else whatsoever save only as an Instrument by which we apprehend or receive Jesus Christ For it is not Faith which Justifieth us but the Object which it apprehends and takes hold of it was not the eye that beheld the brazen Serpent in the Wilderness that healed those that were stung but the Brazen Serpent that was beheld or lookt unto Secondly We must behold Jesus Christ by an eye of Faith or believe in him venture our Souls upon him Thus it is to behold him 1. To believe there is no Salvation but by and thro' Jesus Christ alone Neither is there Salvation in any other for there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we must be saved No other Saviour for Soul or Body for Pardon or Peace 2. To believe tho' there is no Salvation in any other or in nothing else yet that there is Salvation in Christ for all that come unto him or savingly believe in him Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting Life And indeed to this end is Christ lifted up as a Ladder the top of which reaches to Heaven As the Brazen Serpent was lifted up that the vilest Sinners who behold him by an eye of Faith might be saved 3. To believe in Christ or thus to behold him is to lay the whole stress of our Salvation upon him and upon his Atonement upon his Righteousness or upon the Merits of his Blood alone 4. To behold Christ is to believe that he hath made our Peace with God that God is satisfied and well pleased in him that divine Wrath is appeased in him and that he Dyed for you or in your stead 5. To behold Christ is to apply his Blood and plead his Atonement against all Accusations that may be brought against you 1 When Satan lays the greatness of our Sins before us and aggravates them upon our Consciences it is then our Duty to repell his Assaults and Implead him by Pleading that Christ's Blood hath fully attoned and satisfied for all our Sins both those Sins we committed before Called and for all our Sins committed after we are Called 2. When our Consciences acc●se us 't is our Duty and Priviledge to Plead the Blood of Christ and look up to him who is our Advocate at the Father's Right-h●nd 3. When Men accuse us for our Faults and Failings we must behold Jesus Christ and believe the Sufficiency of his Righteousness and the Vertue and Merits of his Blood Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect it is God that Justifies Who is he that Condemneth it is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the Right-hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who can Implead su●h or put in any Accusation against them whom God actually Acquits Justifies and pronounceth Righteous The Apostle saith our late ●nnotators say that such one may throw down the Gauntle● and challenge all the World let Conscience Carnal Reason Law Sin Hell and Devils bring forth a●● they can say it will not be sufficientto Condemnation Thirdly To behold Jesus Christ by Faith is to go directly to him as your Saviour and Adv●cate let your sins be what they will knowing that he is able to save you and that he hath b●rn all the punishment due that your sins deserved and this without thinking of bringing any thing with you to Commend you to him He requires no previous Qualifications of us Sinners must look to Christ come to Christ in their Sins beholding their loathsome Filth and abominable Guilt feeling and finding that their Wounds bleed and are corrupt and not to think to Wash themselves from their Sins by Repentance and Tears of Sorrow for Sin that they may Believe but come to him to be Washed Believe in him that they may be Justified and Healed Faith will produce Repentance They shall look to him whom they pierced and they shall mourn as a Man mourns for his only Son and be in bitterness as a Man is in bitterness for his First-born Fourthly We should behold Christ as a Sure way to the Father This Ladder will bring us to God who is at the Top of it or above it and as this only is the Way so it is a Sure way No Man cometh to the Father but by me By Christ we