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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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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.
You say Catech. p. 14. [It is the ultimate end, and last result of All things. And (Creatures below being capable of this Union, as All which have no understanding are annihilated. And Creatures of understanding, Angels and Men, can be no other than miserable in the loss of this Union.] But are Christ the Son of Man and his Saints miserable till the end of the Thousand years?
You say Catech. p. 14. [It is the ultimate end, and last result of All things. And (Creatures below being capable of this Vnion, as All which have no understanding are annihilated. And Creatures of understanding, Angels and Men, can be no other than miserable in the loss of this Vnion.] But are Christ the Son of Man and his Saints miserable till the end of the Thousand years?
So p. 15. [In order to the Union of All Created Beings of Understanding, to God all in all.] (What, Devils and all Damned Men!) The Eternal Word far above Angels became lower than Angels by becoming Man, and so comprehended the whole Created Intellectual nature, that he might be the Head ⟨p. 30⟩of the whole in their Union to God: And that in Him they might All be reconciled to God with the whole inferior Creation: Which having served the Glory of the Creator by Jesus Christ, they fly back into their former State of NOTHING in themselves, but indeed are returned into the Divine Immensity, and Angels and Men be United to God for ever. Eph. 1. 10.