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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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§ 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.
2. And that all this is but to confound men partly with falsehoods, and partly with uncertainties; when the plain Doctrine of Christ is a more quieting way. God hath kept ⟨p. 29⟩us so dark about the Beginning or Prae-existence, and the manner of his producing Souls, yea and of the manner of their operation in their separated state, that to be confident beyond his Scripture-Revelation, is but to be ignorant of our Ignorance, and to venture to take Gods name in vain.
2. And that all this is but to confound men partly with falshoods, and partly with uncertainties; when the plain Doctrine of Christ is a more quieting way. God hath kept ⟨p. 29⟩us so dark about the Beginning or Prae-existence, and the manner of his producing Souls, yea and of the manner of their operation in their separated state, that to be confident beyond his Scripture-Revelation, is but to be ignorant of our Ignorance, and to venture to take Gods name in vain.