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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

did in his Name 2. By his Power 3. To his Praise and Glory 4. Also in shewing all Knowledge Learning Parts Righteousness moral Vertues Gifts and all Duties of Religion are Nothing or avail Nothing to a Man out of Christ because it is his Righteousness his M●rits exclusive of all or any thing else that is the matter of our Justification before God 3. All the holy Angels likewise exalt Christ adore and magnify hi● Thirdly God ha●● exalted him from Earth to Heaven in respect of his Office in which als● he is the Antitype of Jacob's L●●de● wh●c● 〈◊〉 I have hinted at already yet I ●●all add 〈…〉 1. Christ is chosen of God a● I said to be the only Mediator between God and Man our Days-Man that lays his hands upon both and as Mediator he is a King Priest and Prophet First He is a Priest excelling the High-priests under the Law being the substance and Antitype of all those Priests he is both Priest Altar and Sacrifice they were made Priests by men he is made a Priest by God himself they without an Oath he by an Oath they had Infirmities he had none The Priest under the Law could not continue by reason of Death he abideth a Priest for ever They offered up Sacrifices that could not take away Sins but by his one Sacrifice all sins are done away for ever He bore the sins of his People indeed he entered into the holiest of all he appears before God indeed they only Typically He made Attonement indeed they but Typically and Ceremonially He Judgeth of Uncleanness indeed they but Typically he maketh true Judgment because he knows all mens Hearts He offers up unto God the true Incense he blesseth the People by conferring Grace and divine Habits to them and by turning them from their evil ways He beyond the Priests under the Law doth determine all yea the hardest Controversies he resolves all doubts between God and Man such as these following 1. How God is Just and yet Gracious or how an offended God can and doth justify guilty Sinners 2. In and by by him we see how Justice and Mercy meet together and Righteousness and Truth kiss each other The one exalting the highest Satisfaction on terms of pure and severe Justice and the other crying for infinite Mercy 3. He resolves this Question viz How an unrighteous and ungodly Man can be justified with God 4. How Sin can be Punished and yet Pardoned 5. How the Debt can be Paid and yet be freely forgiven Brethren Christ is a Priest and as a Priest he is the Antitype of Jacob's Ladder and as so considered he is exalted on high for in and by this Office he brings God and Man Heaven and Earth together I mean by that Attonement he hath made by his bloody Sacrifice It pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himself whether they be things on Earth or things in Heaven Heaven and Earth are not at a farther distance from each other as Naturally we are unto God in respect of our state and Spirits such Enmity is in the hearts of all unrenewed Sinners against God but saith the Apostle But now in Christ Jesus ye that were afar off are made near by the Blood of Christ. The way is by his Death by his Blood which was shed upon the Earth here we were and here is the Foot of the Ladder God's Justice requires an infinite Satisfaction and Christ being God reached Heaven i. e. the full demands of divine Justice Such a Days-Man we needed who layeth his hands upon both By his being a Priest in his o●●ering up that one Sacrifice he reconciled God to us and by his Spirit he reconciles us to God by his applying and making the Attonement efficacious or effectual to us that in the dispensation of the fulness of time he might gather together in one all things in Christ. This is done in him even in Christ alone none but he hath done it or could do it God by him who stands at the top of the Ladder comes down to us as well as we go up to God it is by Christ that God comes down to us in a way of Mercy Peace and Reconciliation and it is by Christ we go up to God in a way of Faith and dependance Beloved God and poor Sinners meet together on this Sacred Ladder or blessed Medium and contrivances of infinite Wisdom in Christ we who were Strangers and Enemies meet with a holy and just God with joy and comfort You that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your Minds by wicked Works hath he reconciled in the body of his Flesh through Death When we were Enemies we were reconciled unto God by the Death of his Son Now this is done by Christ as a Priest in dying But Secondly He is the Antitype of Jacob's Ladder as our High-Priest also by his Intercession now in Heaven 1. He interceeds with God for us in Heaven also 2. He interceeds by his Spirit in us By his Intercession in heaven he prevails with God for the Blessings of his Attonement and by his Spirits intercession in us all those Blessings are applyed and so made effectual to us By vertue of his Satisfaction God is brought near to us and thro Application of his Blood by his Spirit we are brought near unto God And thus is Christ the blessed Medium or Way by which Peace is made between Heaven and Earth or God and Sinners Moreover by this glorious Me●ium we have free access unto God which is the effects of Christ's Priestly Office It is on this Sacred Ladder we come with holy boldness to the Throne of Gra●e It is by the blood of Jesus through him by one Spirit we have both that is Jews and Gentiles access unto the Father Again he saith In whom we have boldness and access with Confidence through Faith of ●im Christ is the Way of our Union with God and also of our Com●union All that divine and blessed intercourse that passeth between God and us is in and by Jesus Christ Seeing then we have a great High-Pri●●t t●●t is passed into Heaven let us therefore come ●oldly to the Throne of Grace c. Again he sai●h Having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus Secondly Christ is exalted as he is a King and also as King he is the Antitype of Jacob's Ladder and in this respect wonderfully exalted Him hath God exalted at his Right-hand to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and remission of Sins Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Potentate It is by him Kings reign and Princes decree Judgment He pulls down one and sets up another as it pleaseth him 1. Christ my Brethren is the Father's Heir his First-born 2. He is also qualified with all Princely Wisdome

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

Flesh then he was made Man more plainly to distinguish the two Natures in Christ to assert the truth of his Humane Nature to let us know that Christ assumed his Humane Nature in common not the particular Nature of any it is not said he was changed into Flesh but by his assuming it he was made Flesh or He the Word Took upon him the See● of Abraham even the same common Nature of all the Elect. Brethren Jesus Christ is perfect God and perfect Man in one Person therefore his Person may truly be said to reach from Earth to Heaven Pray Observe Jacob saw the Foot of the Ladder to stand upon the Earth The Foot went not lower than the Earth this might signify Christ should take upon him the Seed of Abraham or the Nature of Man not the Nature of Angels it was to raise to Heaven the Inhabitants of the Earth not the infernal Spirits or Devils of Hell Had the foot of the Ladder only reached to the Air or come down into the middle Centre of the Earth it might have seemed doubtful whether st was prepared for Fallen Angels or for fallen Mankind to get up to Heaven but the foot of it standing on the Earth denotes no doubt the same thing which the Apostle speaks Verily he took not hold on the Nature of Angels but of the Seed of Abraham he taketh hold First It was requisite He should be MAN and so have his Foot upon the Earth 1. 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 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 Simpathize with us or have a feeling of our Infirmities it must be such a Nature of Man that was cloathed with Infirmities which we have or are atttended with since the Fall because he came to raise fallen Man Now our Infirmities are of two sorts 1st Penal and Painful 2ly Sinful and Culpable Infirmities It was the first of these Christ did take he had a Nature that could Hunger and Thir●● 〈◊〉 be Weary and suffer Pain and Misery both 〈◊〉 and Body as we are liable to We have 〈…〉 Priest which cannot be touched with ●●e feeling of ●●r Infirmities but was in all points Tempted like as we are yet without Sin This shews he was really Man or had a true Humane tho not a Sinful Nature It behoved him to be made like unto ●is Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God to make Reconciliation for the Sins of the People For in that he himself hath suffered being Tempted he is able to succour them that are Tempted Secondly It was necessary also that he should be GOD. 1. That he might reach Heaven I mean the full demands of God's Justice by way of Satisfaction A mere Man could not satisfy infinite Justice or make up that Wrong our Sins ha● done to God but seeing both the Natures in Christ make but one Person when Christ dyed he that was truly God dyed Hence it is said God purchased the Church with his own Blood Which was an infinite Satisfaction to divine Justice had we all lain in Hell for ever we could not have paid one Farthing of that Debt we owed to God and because we could not Satisfy therefore must have Suffered for ever 2. That he might sustain in his Body the Wrath of God and severe Punishment due to us for our Sins for none but he that was God could bear so great a Burden and heavy Wrath as all the Sins of the Elect were and did incur Suppose the Sins but of one Person and he be none of the greatest Sinners neither yet if charged upon him would they not sink him down to Hell Oh! what Power what Strength then save the Strength of an infinite Person could bear as well as satisfy for all the Sins of so many Thousand Persons even the whole number of God's Elect. 3. He must be God that he might be able to overcome all our Enemies not only for us but also in us and preserve us from the greatest Evils and bestow upon us the greatest Good He must lay his Hands upon both viz. He must bring God down to us and carry us up to God I mean reconcile God to Man and Man to God which he could not do unless he be God blessed for evermore how could he know our Hearts our Wan● our Necessities except he was the Eternal Go● How also could he Quicken us and raise us from 〈◊〉 Dead and destroy the Power of Satan in o● Souls and take away that cursed Enmity which naturally is in our Hearts against God Now thus we may clearly perceive that the Spiritual Ladder is long enough to reach from Earth to Heaven Fourthly As a Ladder must be long enough 〈◊〉 reach to the thing or place desired so also must be broad or wide enough if there are mo●● than one to go up even many Persons it must 〈◊〉 wide enough for them all Even so this Ladder this way is broad enoug● for so many that are appointed or ordained to g● to Heaven or to be Saved Brethren Christ is a 〈◊〉 Way or Medium to carry all the Elect to Heaven Not One but All. 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 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 c. He took not the Nature of Angels b●● the Seed of Abraham Tho● it was the common Nature 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

or quite lose the sight of it and 〈◊〉 step he takes the further he goes from 〈…〉 and the higher he comes to Heaven and hath a clearer Sight of that So he who by Faith and Communion with God gets up up●n this spiritual Ladder Jesus Christ hath a clear Prospect of the Glory 〈◊〉 Heaven Moses by Faith saw him that is invisible Faith presented to his view the Angel of the Covenant and God Reconciled in him viz. the Lord Jesus Christ. Carnal or Earthly Persons are at such a great distance from Heaven that they cannot discern the Glory of it they have no Sight no Eyes to see afar off but the Earth and Earthly things appearing to the Carnal sight being always in their view they are exceedingly Affected therewith But Believers who are dwellers above and who daily make a further Prog●ession H●a●e● 〈…〉 the Earth and Earthly this ●s as 〈…〉 ●●●ry step they take they go f●rt●e● 〈…〉 from Earth in their Love and 〈…〉 and Contemplations Our conversatio● 〈…〉 ●●●ven Others mind Earthly things 〈…〉 the Earth and therefore speak of 〈…〉 but Believers are said to dwell in Hea●●● 〈…〉 grand Enemy of the Saints is said to open 〈◊〉 Mouth to blaspheme against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and all that dwell in Heaven that is in the Church of God Militant they shall dwell on ●igh● they are out of those confused Hurries and Noises Dangers and Perplexities others who dwell below are attended with● They are born from above have heavenly Hearts heavenly Principles heavenly Desires heavenly Ends and Aims and heavenly Lives they have Communion with the God of Heaven heavenly things are their Delight they s●a● so high above that they are Ravished with that sight which they have of Heaven There are some other things that I might speak of as held forth by this glorious Type of Christ or which might be improved for our Instruction from hence but I shall leave them until the next time and close now with a brief word of Application VSE 1. By way of Admiration See what a wonderful person Jesus Christ is Behold the Son of Man or this spiritual Ladder that reacheth from Earth to Heaven behold it with Admiration Who would have thought of such away to Heaven Who but infinite Wisdom could have found out such a way to the Father What Work-man but the eternal God could make such a Ladder The Father is said to be above it or on the top of it to denote this way he Prepared and only by this way we must go to him if ever we come to Heaven Christ is God and Man in One Person Heaven and Earth meet together in him he brings God to us and carries us up to God God is reconciled to us in him and we are reconciled to God by him 2. Be exhorted to get up on this Ladder If ever you think to see the Father he is above it as the end of our Journey as our Hope and Reward he calls upon you Sinners to Adventure up this Ladder to believe in his Son He is above it to direct you uphold you and encourage you therefore fear not nay he is above it declaring himself in Covenant with all that come to him by Jesus Christ and to be their God I am the Lord God of Abraham c. This he spake to Jacob as standing above it or on the top of this Ladder 3. Bless God for Christ for his devising of such a way to raise us up who were sunk so low and had no strength no skill no helper none that could bring us to God nor find out a way to save our Souls but God himself only therefore he saith Deliver him from going down into the Pit I have found a Ransom Reproof This may be also for Reprehension to divers sorts of Persons 1. To such that deny the D●●ty or God-head of Jesus Christ If he be no more than a meer Man the Ladder is too short to reach up to Heaven He could not reach so high as to satisfy divine Justice or to bring us to God it being through the worth and dignity of his Person who being an infinite Person or God over all there was an infinite Worth and Merit in his Sufferings and Obedience True he might have saved himself being Perfect never having Sinned nor broke God's Law tho' he had been but a meer Man but it is from his being God as well as Man Substituted in our stead and standing in our Law-place as our great Head and ●ponser ●● that gave such Worth and Merit for us by his Obedience and suffering to the Law and Justice of God Moreover how else also could he have overcome Death the Devil and all our Enemies and have raised himself from the Dead Death would have kept him under it's Power and he had never came out of the Grave to ascend so high as Heaven to raise us thither 2. It Reprehends all such also who seek by any other way or means to go to Heaven We have new Babel-builders or Work-mongers that think to climb up to Heaven by their own Works by their own Faith and sincere Obedience And others by the Light within which is but a branch of the First-covenant or law of God writ in the Heart and if there had been a Law that could have given Life or raised us up to Heaven verily Righteousness had been by the Law But then as the Apostle saith Christ is dead in vain Examin Try your selves by what you have heard whether you have ascended on this Ladder yea or nay 1. Were you ever brought to the Foot of Christ Did you ever see your lost Condition in the first Adam and that there is no other way to be Saved but by the Lord Jesus 2. Are you at the lowest part of the Ladder and there rest or are you got up towards the top thereof There is no resting no stay to be made when you first ascend or first believe in Christ or on any attainment of Grace but you must mount up or ascend up higher from Faith to Faith have you stept up on the Roand of Obedience have you took Christ's yoke upon you this seems too hard a step for some to take are you got above the Earth in your Affections doth the Earth and the things thereof grow less and less every day in your sight as in a natural respect it doth to him that soars very high or climbs upon a Ladder to the very Clouds Are you willing to leave Earth to leave this World to go to Heaven Paul longed to be dissolved and to be with Christ He pressed towards the mark Do you dwell in Communion with God ●las many love to be below they like those lower Regions best See how it is with you but no more at this time SERMON II. GENESIS xxviij xij xiij And behold