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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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If you say that they lived in God as pure Spirits without Bodies, what then did the Prime Matter, which some of you call the third Hypostasis in the Trinity? We see that God put Souls into Bodies in this World: And can you prove that he never did so before from all Eternity?
And when you have said, that Christ and Saints shall be swallowed up in God, and have no more Kingdom as Sons of men, but be in God as before the World began, do you mean that they shall continue so to all Eternity, and never revolve into Bodies more? When God hath showed us that he hath delighted in embodied Souls these five thousand six hundred ninety years, will you feign that he never did so before, nor ever will do so again?
And when you have said, that Christ and Saints shall be swallowed up in God, and have no more Kingdom as Sons of men, but be in God as before the World began, do you mean that they shall continue so to all Eternity, and never revolve into Bodies more? When God hath shewed us that he hath delighted in embodied Souls these five thousand six hundred ninety years, will you feign that he never did so before, nor ever will do so again?
§ 41. I conclude, 1. That there is no rational issue of your Doctrine to be expected, but a Pythagorean, or Platonic Revolution or Transmigration of Souls, from one Universal Soul into many particulars, as the Sea floweth into Springs, and they into Rivers, and they into the Sea again, and so round: Or as one Sun illuminating the Air, lighteth many Candles, (by a burning-glass or by flames,) being individuated only by the oily matter, but not divided from the common Element of Fire.
§ 41. I conclude, 1. That there is no rational issue of your Doctrine to be expected, but a Pythagorean, or Platonick Revolution or Transmigration of Souls, from one Universal Soul into many particulars, as the Sea floweth into Springs, and they into Rivers, and they into the Sea again, and so round: Or as one Sun illuminating the Air, lighteth many Candles, (by a burning-glass or by flames,) being individuated only by the oily matter, but not divided from the common Element of Fire.