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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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§ 31. 12. How frivolous is your reason from Gods being All in All? What do you think those words do mean? It's neither any Addition to God, nor any Exclusion of Christ: But Gods Governing Mankind as fully recovered according to the Law of his perfect Nature, and without any more Medicinal recovering Grace; and his filling them with the Grace and Joy of his inhabiting Complacence.
1. It cannot mean that God in Essence is nearer the Creature than before. For in him we Live and Move, and Be. He is All in All now as the God of Nature.
2. It cannot mean that God will be more the Cause of Grace or Glory, for Christs ceasing to be a Cause. For God is no less a Cause when he useth second Causes, than if he used none.
3. It can no more be an Exclusion of Christ from being a Cause of our heavenly Communion with God, than an Exclusion of all second Causes from their Office: And if all second Causes be excluded, and there be no Cause but God, there will be no Being but God, and this is but to reduce the World into God or Nothing; which you must not feign unproved.