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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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But still it is unresolved whether the prime Created Nature, be a Soul to the Incarnate Body, or Christ took both Soul and Body of Man, besides the first Mental Nature. Apollinarius was for the Godhead being instead of a Soul.
Now you come and tell us that
[The Eternal Word in Humane Nature hath a Kingdom throughout Eternity, but not as the Son of Man, but as the Eternal Word: The Glory in which Christ is seen with his Saints, being the Glory which he had with the Father before the World began: Of the same Nature wherein he is now at the right Hand of God till he appears: ⟨p. 26⟩And the Union in that Eternal State is by God to God, by the Word to the Father; so the Son as Man is subject, and God All in All. Catech. p. 21. It seems by the high expressions of God, who is purest Spirit, being All in All, and by the Lake of the Second Death, and even the New Heaven and New Earth after the Thousand years flying away, there is no bodily or material nature continued, no not of the Sons glorious body, who is then subject, nor of the Saints. Ans. Scripture having declared no such thing, no such thing can be supposed, but that Christ and his Saints shall be in bodies. So high expressions can fit no state but of God All in All; even as he was before the foundation of the World All in All, and to which state our Lords words so much refer, Joh. 17. When all the Saints are thus One with God in Christ, then he is thus All in All, as before the World began. Though this Kingdom of Christ be so holy, so heavenly, so pure, so much of God in it—yet because it is the Kingdom of the Man Christ Jesus, and of his Saints in a Visible Created Glory, and not the highest Union to God All in All, Christ gives this last declaration of the Name, that is, of the Nature and Glory of God; He freely delivereth up this his Kingdom, and the Son as in Humane Nature suffers most willingly that Glory of himself, and of his Saints, to be swallowed up by God All in All, and unites them with himself to the Father, as he is the Eternal Word, and so they are with him for ever, beholding the Glory which he had with the Father before the World was, which is the highest instance of Self-denial of all Created Glory, and giving up all to God All in All that could be given,