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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 32. [Greek or Hebrew] being plural cannot mean that God will End all things, and so be Nothing in any thing, but Himself: All things in All signifieth the Existence of those All things. And shall not Christ and his Kingdom then Exist? Not in its Paradise or Heavenly State?
§ 32. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 being plural cannot mean that God will End all things, and so be Nothing in any thing, but Himself: All things in All signifieth the Existence of those All things. And shall not Christ and his Kingdom then Exist? Not in its Paradise or Heavenly State?
§ 33. Can it possibly mean any more than Of Him, and Through Him, and To Him are All Things? And so they are now, Rom. 11. 36. Or that he is Above All, and through All, and in us All: And so he is now, Eph. 4. 6. And that he worketh All in All: And so he doth still, 1 Cor. 12. 6. And that he filleth All in All: And so he doth still, Eph. 1. 23. Even Christ is said to Be All in All, Col. 3. 11. And shall he cease to be so. He is appointed Heir of All things, he upholdeth All things by the Word of his Power. For whom are All things, and by whom are All things? Heb. 1. 1, 3. & 2. 10. And why must he be deposed? By him are all things, 1 Cor. 8. 6. God gathereth All things in One in Christ,