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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 2: An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles, and his Catechism of the M…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here we have Annihilation and Nothingness in themselves, and yet [indeed are returned into the Divine Immensity. And so that which is Nothing in it self hath a Being in God! What can this mean but that the Creatures were once all God himself, till he gave them a Self-being, which he taketh away, and then they are God again, not only their Individuation, but their Creature-Being ceasing. All things are still in God, and his Immensity: But if they have no Being in themselves there will be Nothing but God: But will they so continue? And will God from Eternity to Eternity have no Created Being save for Seven Thousand years (or days?)
Here we have Anihilation and Nothingness in themselves, and yet [indeed are returned into the Divine Immensity. And so that which is Nothing in it self hath a Being in God! What can this mean but that the Creatures were once all God himself, till he gave them a Self-being, which he taketh away, and then they are God again, not only their Individuation, but their Creature-Being ceasing. All things are still in God, and his Immensity: But if they have no Being in themselves there will be Nothing but God: But will they so continue? And will God from Eternity to Eternity have no Created Being save for Seven Thousand years (or days?)
And indeed is the whole understanding (and inferior) Nature, Devils and Men, thus reconciled?
And indeed is the whole understanding (and inferiour) Nature, Devils and Men, thus reconciled?
And is God [Greek or Hebrew] when there is no [Greek or Hebrew] nothing but Himself in Unity: Is he In that which is not?
And is God 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 when there is no nothing but Himself in Unity: Is he In that which is not?