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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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§ 36. Here you do but confound mens minds with many things at the best unproved. 1. That Christ was an Eternal Man; (of which your Transubstantiation-Book hath more.) 2. That his Eternal Manhood is so distinct from his being the Son of Man, that he hath a twofold Manhood; one from Eternity, and one at his Incarnation. 3. That Christs Kingdom as the Son of Man, that is, in his Manhood which he had by Incarnation, endureth but a Thousand years.
4. That the Manhood of his Saints which they had by Generation, also ceaseth after the Thousand years. 5. Yet Christ ⟨p. 27⟩and they shall have material Bodies after, even in Christs eternal Body. 6. That this giving up of the Kingdom after a Thousand years, is the greatest Self-denial in the World, as if it were a loss or diminution of the Glory of Christ and Saints. 7. That when all the Saints are thus One in Christ with God, then God is All in All, as before the foundation of the World. 8. That this is the Unity meant in Joh. 17. 24. 9. That this is glorifying Christ with the Glory he had before the World began, Joh. 17. 5. And not that God would glorify him as the Son of Man, by advancing his Humane Nature, to its participation in the Glory which the Divine Nature had from Eternity. 10. Yet you tell me by word of mouth, that you believe the Individuation of the Saints in this united state. The Metaphor of [swallowing up in God] you may make true or false as you shall expound it, which till then signifieth nothing.
4. That the Manhood of his Saints which they had by Generation, also ceaseth after the Thousand years. 5. Yet Christ ⟨p. 27⟩and they shall have material Bodies after, even in Christs eternal Body. 6. That this giving up of the Kingdom after a Thousand years, is the greatest Self-denial in the World, as if it were a loss or diminution of the Glory of Christ and Saints. 7. That when all the Saints are thus One in Christ with God, then God is All in All, as before the foundation of the World. 8. That this is the Unity meant in