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The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of…
The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of a future calling and reign of the Jews, and 1000 years before the conflagration and the asserters of the 1000 years kingdom after the conflagration : opening the promise of the new heaven and earth and the everlastingness of Christ's kingdom against their debasing it, who confine it to 1000 years ... : answering Mr. Tho. Beverley ... in his twelve principles and catechisms, &c. / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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Chapter 2: An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles, and his Catechism of the M…
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§ 22. 3. The Promises are made to Christ, that his Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom, and have no end: And therefore ceaseth not by the delivery mentioned. And though the Hebrew word commonly translated [for ever] oft signify but a long time, or many Generations; yet in the Texts intimated, there is no reason for such a limitation. If God say, that of his Kingdom there shall be no end, let the deniers prove their denial.
§ 22. 3. The Promises are made to Christ, that his Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom, and have no end: And therefore ceaseth not by the delivery mentioned. And though the Hebrew word commonly translated [for ever] oft signifie but a long time, or many Generations; yet in the Texts intimated, there is no reason for such a limitation. If God say, that of his Kingdom there shall be no end, let the deniers prove their denial.
§ 23. 4. Christ hath promised to make them that overcome, Pillars in his Temple, and they shall go out no more; which he could not perform if he go out himself, or lose his Kingly Power.
And he saith, That the Children of God and the Resurrection are equal to the Angels, and die no more: And sure he can make their state no more durable than his own. And it is called Life Eternal which we shall possess: And shall Christ have less than we?