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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

holy-Holy-Ghost for every sacred Person of the blessed Trinity shines forth in equal Glory in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of our Salvation by Jesus Christ. 1. The Glory of the Father is manifested in Election or in Chusing all that shall be Saved in Christ. 2. The Glory of the Son in Redemption or in dying to redeem them 3. The Glory of the Holy Spirit in Sanctification or in Renewing and Regenerating of them So many the Father Elected so many the Son Redeemed and so many the Spirit Sanctifies So in Justification Christ's Righteousness being called a Robe the three Persons are equally Glorified and Exalted 1. The Father prepar'd the Matter out of which the Robe of Righteousness is made viz. The Body of Christ. 2. The Son wrought it by his own active and passive Obedience 3. The holy-Holy-Ghost puts it upon us by working Faith in us And not only the Glory of God personally consider'd but also the Glory of all the divine Attributes or Perfections of the blessed God-head are Magnified and Exalted also hereby 1. The Glory of his infinite Love Mercy and Goodness which you have heard is the grand Motive that moved God the Father or put him upon this glorious Contrivance which is the rise spring and fountain of all our Happiness 2. Moreover the Glory of his infinite Wisdom Truth Justice Power and Holiness The Glory of his Justice God is Just he can as soon cease to be as cease to be Just. God declar'd if Man Sinn'd he should dye therefore either he must destroy Man to preserve his Truth and Justice and see his Law not violated and turned upside down and so conceal his Mercy or else find out a way to satisfy his Justice and preserve his Truth that his Love and Mercy may appear therefore his VVisdom found out a way for the Honour both of Justice and Mercy by laying our Sins upon his own Son as our Surety and to undergo that Wrath and Punishment which we must otherwise have undergone for ever Here is Brethren no changing the Sentence against Sin but of the Person our Sins and Punishment are transferred upon Jesus Christ and since it was infinite Justice our Sins had wronged an infinite Punishment must be Suffered which none but one that was God could bear nor satisfy for and now the full Payment or Satisfaction Christ made to divine Justice put a Bar or delivered h●m from the eternal duration of the Punishment for the cause why Sinners lye in Hell or in Prison for ever arises from their inability to satisfie or pay their Debts but from the worth and dignity of Christ's Person Justice is Satisfie● and he acquitted and discharged out of Prison and we in him Besides none but God could be a proper Judge what could be a suffici●nt Satisfaction to his vindictive Wrath and Justice but when God declares that in his Son he is well pleased and satisfied who shall say this could not be a proper and legal discharge for us Moreover this discovers Go●'s infinite Holiness and hatred of Sin more than if we had suffered for ever in his making his own Son a Sacrifice for our Sins and not sparing him when he stands in our Law-place Here as one observes was the Beauty of his Holiness as well as the exactness of his Justice with the vin●●cation of the Honour of his Law displaying the Purity of his Nature by sheathing his Sword with Indign●●●on in the Bowels of Sin while he pierced the Heart of his beloved Son The like I might speak of all God's other blessed Attributes his end was to magnifie them hereby as well as his Wisdom Love Mercy and Justice But to proceed Secondly His Design herein also was to magnify the Law and make it honourable the law looses none of it Sanction by Jesus Christ the law required Man to keep it Man to yield perfect Obedience to God therein and Man to dye and bear the Penalty for the breach of it But lo here is a Man nay one more then Man even God-Man the Son of God made Man made of a Woman made under the Law come on purpose to stand in our Law-place to honour this Law to yield active and perfect Obedience unto it and to dye for our breach thereof This is more than the Law could or did require the law hath more then it 's just Demand for by Christ's keeping of it and dying for our Sin● he hath meritted as well as satisfied he hath meritted those things of God which the Law could not have given us had we never broke it that could not have made us so near to God so great so glorious and so happy for ever as we are made by the merits and purchase of Jesus Christ. But more of that by and by Do we make void the law thro' Faith God forbid Yea we establish the law In that by Christ's Obedience to the Law or by his perfect active Obedience and Death apprehended by Faith we are Justified and the Law for ever silenced Christ having satisfied the Justice of God broke the Thunders of the Law and dissolved the frame of all its Anathema's He being made a Curse for us he hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law He hath abolished the Obligation of the Moral Law as to its Condemning Power and hath by his blood sealed another Covenant a New-Covenant a better Covenant the first hath been perfectly kept and the sentence of it hath been undergone and its killing power is taken away to all that are in Christ Jesus And thus see how the Law is magnified lifted up and made Honourable i. e. rather then that shall loose any of its Honour the Son of God will become Man and answer all its Demands in doing and suffering what we ought to have done and suffered and for our default must have endured for ever Thirdly God's design hereby also was to destroy the Works of the Devil in respect of Original Sin which was Satan's Work and of all actual Sins which are his cursed works also i. e. such works that he imploys all Men in and stirs them up to do until they are delivered out of his Kingdom For this purpose was the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil Who is the Author of all Sin and the Worker of all Iniquity and as God's design was to destroy Sin the work of the Devil so it was also hereby to destroy Satans Design likewise which was to rob God of the Glory of his own Work and Purpose in creating of Man he thought to have utterly ruined Mankind and laid him for ever as low as Hell but God by this means by this Spiritual Ladder shews his purpose is to raise hi● up to the highest Heavens This brings me to the last thing Proposed as Gods design hereby Fourthly Gods design hereby was to raise up poor fallen Man into a more happy and glorious State than he was

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

Communication of it it is called the manifold Wisdom of God To the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God The Angels who are said to ascend and descend up this Ladder are not a little astonished with the whole Oeconomy of Man's Redemption or with this way of raising us to the highest Glory from hence Paul speaking of our Redemption thro Christs blood saith Wherein God hath abounded towards us in all Wisdom and Prudence Brethren God hath abounded in all Wisdom towards us in contriving of this way for us to come to himself and his Prudence in ordering and disposing the means consonant thereto Wisdom saith one in drawing the Platform and Prudence in Digging thro all Impediments and making even the seeming Obstacles serve as Steps to the Execution of it Brethren God hath discovered greater Wisdom in restoring man by Jesus Christ then in his Creating of him God's Wisdom howbeit shines in the works of Creation and in his works of Providence in governing the whole Creation is very great but his greatest Wisdom appears in the work of his Redemption both in respect to the work it self together with his design and purpose of God therein well might it be said Behold a Ladder c. Wonder Oh the depths of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! 'T is called the Riches of God's Wisdom and the Wisdom of God in a Mystery But Woe to such as contemn this Wisdom slight this Wisdom or assert there is nothing in it a Mystery above humane Reason how for God thus to love Man for God to bring his Glory out of the Ashes wherein it seem'd buried and to raise Man so high that by Sin and the Devil was laid so low to cause Light to shine out of the thickest Darkness and to bring Heaven and Earth together again is Wisdom to be admir'd As reverend Charnock observes It is accounted an admirable point of Wisdom among Men to unite two Princes at variance without invading either of their Rights but intirely preserving them and to link them together in Bonds of stronger Peace than they were in before they fell out By Jesus Christ Brethren God's Right is preserved he loseth nothing of his own Glory of his own Honour but it is more enlarged and manifested than if Man had never fallen and Man is restored to a better and more lasting State of Happiness Thirdly The way to Heaven by Jacob's Ladder ought to be beheld with the greatest Admiration in respect of the Matter of which it is made all Ladders as well as all other things consist of matter and form But O what is the Matter with which this divine Ladder is made I answer it is the Son of God made Man even he that made the Woman made of a Woman is not this wonderful to see the Ancient of Days become a Babe of a Day Old is it not a marvellous thing To see him that was in the form of God and that thought it not Robbery to be equal with God to be in the form of a Servant and to lye in a Man●er● To see him that made the Creature to be trod underfoot of the Creature and hel● in scorn and contempt and dishonoured to raise such as we so the highest honour Is it not an amazing thing to see Jesus made a Curse to raise Sinners from under the Curse to eternal Bl●●●edness We account that a marvellous thing that is New a thing that none ever did nor could do the like For the Lord hath created a new thi●● in the Earth a Woman shall compass a Man A Child Created not Begotten but Created in the Virgin 's Womb by the Lord is not that a marvellous thing and above the Reason or Understanding of men though of the deepest Judgment Wisdom and Knowledge that ever lived upon the Earth But su●h is the Incarnation of Christ and the Hypostatical Union of the Two Natures in that One Person no man by reason can Comprehend h●w th●s could be My ●●●thren this is a mysterious Ladder and made of a ●●●derful Materials Is it not an amazing thing that God should give his own Son a Sacrifice for Rebels such that hated him and that God should purchase the Church with his own Blood Is it not a marvellous thing that the King upon the Throne should lay aside his Robes and dye for c●rsed Traytors and contemptible Beggers Is not that a wonderful thing which Non-plusses all the Wisdom of Men and Angels Is it not a wonderful thing that God and Man or the divine and humane Nature should be so united to be but one Person and is it not strange and wonderful that vile Sinners should be made Righteous by the Righteousness of another and that sinful Man should be cloathed with a more glorious Robe than any of the holy Angels of Heaven have Is it not a marvellous thing that Death should be overcome and destroyed by Death and that a Man should Dye and yet be capable to raise himself from the Dead Behold this Ladder is it not made of beaten Gold Is it not a costly Ladder of more Worth than ten thousand Worlds What are Pearls or Diamonds to this Pearl What precious Stones may be compared to this precious tryed Stone This Ladder is made of one precious Stone yet so made that there is firm and sure Footing in it for all that venture thereon to carry them to Heaven Fourthly It should be beheld with Admiration in respect of the Design of it O my Brethren never was a Ladder made on so high so sublime and on so great and so glorious a Design as this is 1. For to manifest the Glory of God or to advance his own Honour in the sight and view of all his elect ones 2. To magnify the Law 3. To destroy the work and design of the Devil 4. And to raise up poor fallen man into a most happy and glorious State and Condition for ever Certainly to behold such a Ladder that is set upon the Earth and the top of it reacheth up to Heaven it must needs denote some wonderful and glorious Design and End of the blessed God It shews that hereby God would have Jacob know and all his true Seed that man's happiness doth not consist in any earthly Blessings it is not below but above yea that it lyes only in hi● self and that we must observe the way know well the way he hath prepared for us to attain to that true Happiness and that it is to be had in Union and Communion with himself But to proceed First The Design of God the Father in the contriving this way this glorious and wonderful Medium or this spiritual and mystical Ladder is to magnify and advance his own Glory in respect of his own Person and the Glory of his Son and the Glory of the