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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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When Paul tells us that Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, I must in Charity suppose that by Flesh and Blood Eternal, Dr. More and others, mean (not properly but Catachristically) the Natura Mentalis, or the Intellectual Nature, which they suppose to be the same in Christ, Angels and Men.
It is not improbable that the highest of Creatures, is in order of Nature, a prior effect of the Divine production before the lower.
Whether this shall be called an Emanation or a Creation you are not agreed. Nor whether this prime Created Nature, be Universal Life, and Universal Matter, and so be the Soul and Body of the World, considered as before modal Mutations; or whether it be only some nobler sort of Spirit and Matter that is made before the more ignoble, and perhaps maketh the rest.
Whether this shall be called an Emanation or a Creation you are not agreed. Nor whether this prime Created Nature, be Vniversal Life, and Vniversal Matter, and so be the Soul and Body of the World, considered as before modal Mutations; or whether it be only some nobler sort of Spirit and Matter that is made before the more ignoble, and perhaps maketh the rest.