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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

are imployed to defend the godly Brethren the Ladder goes through Satan's Territories and tho they can't come upon it yet they strive to throw us down if possible but know the Good Angels have as great power to defend us as the Evil Angels have to annoy us The Angels are our guard to deliver us to aid and assist us when assaulted by the Powers of Darkness and from the hurt and mischief which those Millions of wicked Spirits that swarm about us would do us The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him they are God's Hosts as Jacob calls them and a mighty Host they are the King of A●●●●● sent a great Host with Chariots and Horsemen and t●ey came by night and encompassed the City about And now Elisha ●s Servant cries out Alas my Master 〈…〉 shall we do 2 Kings 6.15 And he answered Fear not for they that are with us are more than 〈◊〉 that be a●ainst us verse 1● And El●s●a prayed and said Lord I pray thee open his eyes that 〈…〉 And the Lord opened the eyes 〈◊〉 the young man and he saw and behold the Mount●●n was 〈…〉 and Chario● of pre round 〈…〉 6. They no doubt suggest good thoughts into the minds of God's People Can any think that the evil Angels have more power to suggest evil thoughts into our minds than the good Angel● ha●e to suggest good thoughts We have not only the holy Spirit of God to do this but the good Ang●l● also 7. They are imploy'd to guide and lead us along on this Ladder that so we may not fa●● 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 8. God in governing the World and his People in it makes use of Angels they lead s●metimes 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 up●n 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 9. They are to keep the Godly in all their ways or rather in God's ways to keep our feet on the Ladder lest they Lip For he shall give his Angels tha●●e over thee to keep thee in all thy ways they shall bear thee up in their hands or sustain thee and uphold thee in all thy goings as we do a Child or weak person especially in times of danger as a Nurse bears the Child in her Arms. But take heed of going out of God's way lest you fall and the evil Angels have power over you as he had over a godly Man's daughter who going to a Play-house was possessed by the Devil and a godly Minister pleading with God said Lord why didst thou suff●r Satan to possess such a man's Chil● The Devil presently said in her as I remember the passage What did ●●e then upon my ground The good Angels Brethren have a charge only of us while in his way a Saint may step out of it tho not out of Christ yet out of his ways O take heed of that 10. Angels are imployed to comfort God's People Fear not Mary thou h●st sound favour with God Angels know us by name An Angel appeared to Da●iel and said O Daniel a Man greatly beloved understand the words I speak unto thee Angels know who are most beloved of Jesus Christ An Angel appeared to Cornel●us and said Thy Prayers and thy Alms are come up as a Memorial before God 11. They also as Mr. Greenhill observes are to look to the Souls of Believers that they fall not into the hands of Devils at death for they all go to Heaven through his Territories the Air For saith he if the Devil durst contend with Michael for the Body of Mo●e● much more f●r the Souls of the Saints Lazar●●'s Soul was carried by the Angels into Abraham's ●o●om before Men carried the Body to the Grave the Angels carried his Soul to Glory Moreover they are the Reaper● of the Harvest of the World and shall gather t●gether all the Elect at the last day they must blow the terrible Trumpet to raise the Dead at the last day 12. The Angels have work in the Church they attend the Assemblies of the Saints For th●s cause ought the Woman to have powe● o● her Head because of the Angels or to have her Head viz. her Fa●e covered the thing signified is here put for the sign she is under the power of her Husband signified by covering her Head Quest. But why must she be covered because of the Angels Ans. There are divers Opinions about this 1. Some think the Apostle means the evil Angels who watch to take advantage to tempt Men by the sight of some beautiful Object But certainly as our A●●o●●ors observe the Apostle would not have spoken of D●vils under this n●tion 2. Others think he means the Ministers or O●●●cers of the Church who are called Angels ●ut as Calvin observes the word Angel is never appropriated to Ministers without some addition as to the Angel of the Church of Ep●●st●● c. 3. Most understand by An●els here the good Angels they have a charge of our Churches as Peter Martyr observes as well as they had of the Jews Michael the Prince stood up for the Children of thy People The Angels take good notice of every person's behaviour in our Assemblies how they demean themselves with piety modesty and sobriety If any let their Eyes wander or rove ab●ut they observe them Hence 't is thought the Women should cover their Faces especially in Prayer because of the Observation the Angels make of them and others whilst in God's holy Worship in his Church Brethren like a● the Devils attend our Churches to hinder us in our profiting under the Word so the good Angels are there also to resist them and to further our profiting Satan as one observes is first and last at the meetings of God's People and he hath many ways to obstruct the Souls of Men from hearing with attention may be lu●●s them asleep or fills their minds with prejudice against the Preacher or against the Word he preaches or to confuse their thoughts causing them to think of their worldly Business perhaps of their Debts what they owe or what is owing to them or of Injuries sustained and how to seek revenge or else cause them to fix their Eyes upon one beautiful Object or another thereby to divert them from what they should mind But we may conclude the good Angels have as many ways to help us as the evil have

him and proceeding from him To p●each Christ the Life the life of our Souls not only having purchased Life for us but infuseth Life or a vital Principle into us and preserves that Life that he is the Bread of Life and the Water of Life That Christ is the hidden Manna that came down from Heaven which the natural Man knoweth not that by coming to him by believing on him or receiving of him we live and that by our Union with him he is ours and his Righteousness and all the Merits of his Blood even all his Riches both Grace and Glory becomes ours or we have an Interest in him and all he is and hath Thirteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach him to be our Bride-groom that espouseth us in Conjugal Affections in Knowledge in Faithfulness in Mercy and in loving Kindness for ever That he is our Physician that heals all our Diseases Our Shepherd to gather us or bring us home to his Fold that feeds leads protects and defends us To Preach Christ the only Head of the Church having absolute Power over his Body and graciously guiding and influencing it and every Member thereof To Preach Christ the only Foundation and chief Corner-stone upon whom the Church is built and every lively Stone is united to build our Salvation on him to Trust on him and to have all our Faith and Hope in him To Preach Christ is to Preach him the Sun of Righteousness like as the Sun in Glory he is the Anima Mundi the very Soul of the new World in respect of Light and Life as well as Heat and in respect of his fructifying and comforting Influence and by his expelling all our Darkness causing a lovely Spring and blessed Day in all such Souls on whom he riseth and shines To Preach Christ the Fountain to wash us as well as the Sun to enlighten us and our only Physician to heal us To Preach Christ in a Word is to Preach him to be every thing that God hath made him to be unto us even both Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Fourteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach him as I said to be the Antitype of all Types and the Substance of all Shadows 1. The second Adam publick Person and great Covenanting Head and blessed Representative of all his Elect out of whose Side his Spouse is taken 2. The true Noah and Heir of the World that builds the Ark and that saves all just Persons the true Preacher of Righteousness that sends the Dove and that repairs the lost World 3. The true Melchizedeck without Father and Mother made a Priest by an Oath that blesseth Abraham and all his true Seed 4. The true Abraham to whom all the Promises are made the Father of all the Faithful and th●t turns the Bon●-woman and her Son out of Doors and recovers the Captives 5. The true and Antitypical Isaac long promised before Born and brought forth out of a dry Root by the mighty Power of God and Word of Promise three dayes dead and yet as to his Deity dyed not and yet was Offered up for a Sacrifice by his Father 6. The true Jacob who as a Prince prevailed with God 7. Our Joseph who was Sold into the hands of the wic●ed Ishmaelites and who by his Abasement was raised to Honour and made Lord-Treasurer of all the Land who feeds all Famished and hunger-starved Sinners to whom all must go for Bread and before whom all his Brethren must bow 8. Our Moses that brings all the Children of Israel out of Spiritual Egypt and Bondage of Sin and Satan 9. The true Joshua that carries God's Israel into the Land of Promise 10. Our strong Samson that slew the devouring Lyon and who by death or dying destroyed our Enemies 11. The true David beloved of God and his only Anointed with whom the Covenant stands fast for ever 12. The true Solomon the Prince of Peace that excells all in Wisdom both Men and Angels that builds God's Temple and bears the Glory and that Marries the Aethiopian Woman the black and polluted Gentiles 13. The true Elisha that Cures all the Leperous Naamans and multiplieth the Widdows Oyl 14. The true Elijah that raiseth up the dead Child i. e. the dead Soul and that went to Heaven 15. Our Jonah that was cast into the Sea of God's Wrath to make a Calm that lay three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth 16. The true Antitypical Aaron as you heard before 17. The Mercy-Seat from whence God Communes with us 18. The Altar of Perfame that presents all our Persons and Prayers acceptable unto God the Father 19. The Antitype of the Slain and Scape-goat on whom all our Sins are laid and who bears them all away into an unknown Land 20. The true Antitypical Rock that was smitten in the Wilderness that we might have Water of Life to drink in this Wilderness until we come to the true Canaan 21. The true Passover that was Sacrificed for us 22. The true Sin-offering yea both Priest Altar and Sacrifice Lastly the Antitypical brasen Serpent that is lifted up to cure all that are Stung with Sin that fiery Serpent that look up to him by Faith Fifteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach all the Ordinances of Christ holy Precepts and Institutions Sixteenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach all the Promises of Christ and all in him and in him sure to all his Seed Not Yea and Nay but Yea and Amen to the Glory of God the Father Seventeenthly To Preach Christ is to Preach that fulness that is in Christ viz. 1. A Soul-fulness or spiritual Fulness a Soul enriching fulness a s●itable fulness and seasonable fulness a necessary fulness a Soul-satisfying fulness an eternal and everlasting fulness 2. A fulness of Merit and Satisfaction and of Righteousness 3. A fulness of Grace 4. A fulness of Light and a fulness of Sufficiency as Mediator of Power Wisdome Knowledge Love Mercy Pardon Peace Joy and Glory 5. A fulness of Efficiency Tho we are never so empty Christ can fill us tho never so poor he can inrich us tho never so weak he can strengthen us tho never so Ignorant he can give us knowle●ge tho never so guilty he can justifie us tho' never so naked he can cloathe us tho never so sa●● he can rejoyce our troubled Hearts In a word All fulness is in Christ In him dwelleth the fulness of the God-head Bodily Not part of the God-head the God-head the distinguished cannot be divided but the whole God-head dwelleth in the Son as in the Father and in the Holy Ghost Eighteenthly To Preach Christ to exalt him as the Father hath I fred him up and magnify'd him is to abase the Creature 't is to give all the glory of our Salvation to him and assume none of it to ourselves To Preach him only not

me behold me what is that but to believe in him lastly and sometimes for Consolation Now the Word here no doubt calls for Observation for Admiration for Faith and Dependance and also for Consolation Behold a Ladder set upon the Earth and the top of it reacheth to Heaven Of what a length is this Ladder Astronomers according to Reverend Greenhill observe 't is 160. Millions of Miles from Earth to Heaven A wonderful thing An amazing height so it is a wonderful thing to behold Christ Jesus the Way to Heaven Behold with Admiration be Astonished who could have thought of such a way to the Father to be Saved by a dying Jesus by a poor Man hanged on a Tree to be Justified by his Righteousness and by his Death to be delivered from Hell this is a marvelous thing Angels wonder beholding this Person Observe from hence DOCT. II. That the way which God hath found out to save lost Man namely Jesus Christ ought to be beheld with the greatest Care or utmost Diligence and with the greatest Admiration and Wonderment 1. I shall shew wherein in speaking to this Proposition the wonderfulness of this spiritual Ladder doth consist 2. How we should behold Jesus Christ. 3. Shew you why we should behold him 4. For what Sinners should behold Christ or look to him 5. Apply it To the first of these 1. To behold this spiritual Ladder in respect of the Cause or Motive that moved God to make or prepare it 2. In respect of the Wisdom of God that did prepare it 3. In respect of the Matter of which it is made or doth consist 4. In respect of the great and glorious Design of God in making or preparing of it First we may well admire this spiritual Ladder Jesus Christ in respect of th● Motive which moved God to prepare it which was his infinite Love Mercy and Goodness to Sinners to shew so great Compassi●n towards sinful and r●bellious Creatures who deserv●d instead of being raised up to Heaven to be immediately cast down to the lowest Hell What is Man that thou art mindful of him that thou shouldst magnif●● him and set thy heart upon him Sirs it was the love of God the Father I say that t●is way was prepared it sprang or proceeded from the greatness of his love God so loved the W●rld if it had not been the product of the Father's Lo●e it w●●l● not be to the praise of 〈◊〉 Grace the love of the F●ther in this case in Moving was as great as the 〈◊〉 in Consenting O how did his Bowels work and move in him O the miraculousness of divine goodness by the law we had broke we were guilty insolently taking up Arms against our Maker plunging ourselves into a Sea of divine Wrath and Vengeance guilty of Millions of Sins meritting Millions of Deaths yet has love would not let him rest until he had found out a way to raise us up from the lowest Hell to the highest Heaven And in making his Son his only begotten Son the way and that by Abasing of him making him so Poor that was so Rich so Low that was so High and Glorious so Cursed that was so Blessed yea Blessedness it self nay so miserable for a time to make our way to Heaven thro' the rending his Flesh and taring his Soul to pieces and pouring forth his most precious Blood and this for such who hated him and were cursed Traitors against him well might the holy Ghost say Behold a ladder behold a new and living way which he hath provided and consecrated thro' the Veil that is to say the Flesh of his own Son O my Brethren the way to enter into the Holiest is by the blood of Jesus Doth not God hereby shew greater Love and Grace than if he had saved lost Sinners on a way of simple Mercy without the Death of his own Son Therefore as one Observes God resolv●d to signalize his Love to us he would have it re●ch the highest Note and it could not be screw'd up to an higher Peg than to Sacrifice his Son for us with his own Hand it pleased the Lord to Praise him Be astonished both Men and Angels Now may our Meditations swim in this boundless bottomless bankless Ocean of the Fathers Love God spared not his own Son Brethren the Love of the Father was the Motive that moved him to contrive this way to Heaven yea and the fullest the freest and the most amazing Love that ever was shewed free to us but expensive to him it cost him the Blood of his Son more costly than the making of Millions of Worlds he lay in his Bosom and there was none besides him from Eternity to put up a request it was the Result of his own Bowels before the being of any Creature 't was the effect of his Power Tho' our Justification Sanctification and eternal Blessedness be the Fruits and Merits of Christ's Death yet whatsoever is Meritted for us by Christ it is all the Fruits of God's Love Christ did not merit the Fathers Love nor did he merit the Office of being a Mediator no this sprung only from the Love of God to us Christ did not I say dye to procure the Fathers Love tho' thereby he makes us more lovely unto him by washing us from our natural Filthiness and by the fruits of his Death thro' the Spirit by stamping his Image upon our Souls Brethren God could not shew gre●ter Love to us as Abraham could not to God than by the Offering up his own Son Isaac whom he so d●arly loved Secondly Admire this Sacred Ladder in respect of the Wisdom of God in contriving of this way to Heaven As it exceeds the Art and Wisdom of Men to make a Ladder to reach up to Heaven so it far surpasseth the Wisdom of Men or Angels to contrive such a way to Heaven that God may be glorified in all his Attributes to the highest Perfections and yet we Saved Sin Punished and yet the Sinner Justified Besides God had lost the glory of his work in making of Man and this World for his sake and Satan would have insulted over him had he not contrived a way to restore him It would have been to the Disparagement of his Wisdom who pronounced all the Works he had made to be Good and when he had made Man very Good to see himself so soon disappointed and his work marr'd I mean the noblest part thereof all other Creatures being made for Man's use and so for lower and baser and more unworthy ends Brethren Christ the way not in vain called the Wisdom of God because in him God displays the highest acts of his divine Wisdom the holy Angels are amaz●d at this Wisdom they pry into this depth this profound mystery of God manifested in the Flesh. There is a wonderful Mystery in our way to Heaven by Jesus Christ as well as in the Fellowship of this Mystery or in the