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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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§ 24. 5. Christs Humane Nature will be perpetuated, and therefore so will his glorious Kingdom. No Text speaketh of his ceasing to be Man; but many contrary. And who should then presume to assert it? I know Smeckfeldius held, that Christ ceased to be Man as soon as he entered Heaven: But the Church called it a Heresy. As on Earth he was to be Man like us in flesh, so in Heaven where flesh and blood cannot enter; yet he will make our vile bodies like to his glorious body.
§ 24. 5. Christs Humane Nature will be perpetuated, and therefore so will his glorious Kingdom. No Text speaketh of his ceasing to be Man; but many contrary. And who should then presume to assert it? I know Smeckfeldius held, that Christ ceased to be Man as soon as he entred Heaven: But the Church called it a Heresie. As on Earth he was to be Man like us in flesh, so in Heaven where flesh and blood cannot enter; yet he will make our vile bodies like to his glorious body.
§ 25. 6. The state of Reward is an Advancement, and not a Diminution, as to us, so to Christ, Phil. 2. 9, 10. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in Heaven, and things on Earth, and things under the Earth, and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
§ 26. 7. Christ hath promised us that we shall be with him where he is, and prayed that we may there behold his glory; which is plainly to say, that when he hath been the ⟨p. 22⟩Mediator of Redemption, he will be the Mediator of Fruition; that is, that we shall see Gods Glory as shining to us in the glorified Humanity of Christ: For as we shall have Bodies in Heaven as well as Souls; so our Bodies will have a suitable Medium of Communion with God.