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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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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.
But we know that God breathed into Man that breath of Life, and so made him a Living Soul, and said, Increase and multiply; and that the Spirit goeth to God that gave it, and we shall be with Christ in Paradise, and that he will receive our departing Spirits, and that it's best to be with him.
§ 42. And now I see not what you can make of Gods being All-in-All, more that at this day he is, and more than that he shall Govern Man again as sinless and fully restored, without any further Redemption or Recovering Government; but that you pervert the Text to countenance your pretended abbreviation of Christs Reign to a Thousand years.