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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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§ 35. I suppose you will say that Christ and his Saints shall not die, nor be deposed, but have such a Glory in which God shall be All in All.
Ans. Very good; who denieth that God is or will be All in All? But the doubt is, whether Christ shall be ever the less Christ, or King? Or the Church ever the less his Kingdom at the End of a Thousand years? I forget not your distinction of Christ as Man, and as the Son of Man. You confess that Christ shall be Man for ever, but not as the Son of Man: That is, as Dr. More, and you, and John Turner say, He is an Eternal Man, or Life, and hath say you, and Dr. M. an Eternal Body, Flesh and Blood, from whence you plead for Transubstantiation.
Ans. Very good; who denyeth that God is or will be All in All? But the doubt is, whether Christ shall be ever the less Christ, or King? Or the Church ever the less his Kingdom at the End of a Thousand years? I forget not your distinction of Christ as Man, and as the Son of Man. You confess that Christ shall be Man for ever, but not as the Son of Man: That is, as Dr. More, and you, and John Turner say, He is an Eternal Man, or Life, and hath say you, and Dr. M. an Eternal Body, Flesh and Blood, from whence you plead for Transubstantiation.
Ans. You could scarce speak to a Man that hath been more tempted to follow you in such intimations, as embolden Reason to be too presumptuous; and I confess that the insinuated Opinions of Peter Sterry, Dr. More, and J. Turner, and you, do strongly flatter emboldened Reason: But I take ⟨p. 25⟩it but for a Temptation, while Scripture is against it, as well as the judgment of the Universal Church.