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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 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.
All things are now in him, and of him, and to him. Nothing can be added to All. But I am not able to discern why you speak so much in Equivocals and Generals, that cannot possibly afford the Reader a determined sense. If you are unwilling to be understood, your Opinions are not of the Light. If you understand not your own words, how should others understand them?
No man can tell whether you infer from Gods being All in All, the Deification of All things, or their Annihilation, or the dissolving of all Bodies compound, and the Deifying only of the spiritual part.