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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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Principle IV. Answered.
§ 1. Your supposition that they are not presently caught up (yea till the end of a Thousand years) is your Forgery.
2. The Equality of Christs Love and Grace to All his Saints] is also your own Doctrine, not Christs. For tho ex parte Dei who operateth per essentiam, there is no inequality or difference, yet in the Effects and the Relative extrinsic Denominations of God from those Effects, there is great difference. All have not equal Grace, nor equally improve their Talents, nor are Rulers of ten Cities, nor as the Apostles sit on Twelve Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Though you say Catech. p. 3. [None of the Saints can be perfected, the one without the other.] If that be true, either those on Earth that you liken to Adam in Paradise are as perfect as those in the New Heaven, or those in Heaven as imperfect as those on Earth. (And no wonder, when you place them but in the Air where evil Spirits dwell now, Catech. p. 12.) But Christ saith the Children of the Resurrection neither Marry nor are given in Marriage, but are like the Angels; And you say on Earth they shall be getting Children abundantly ⟨p. 32⟩a Thousand years; if you take that for no note of imperfection, it seems Christ did.
2. The Equality of Christs Love and Grace to All his Saints] is also your own Doctrine, not Christs. For tho ex parte Dei who operateth per essentiam, there is no inequality or difference, yet in the Effects and the Relative extrinsick Denominations of God from those Effects, there is great difference. All have not equal Grace, nor equally improve their Talents, nor are Rulers of ten Cities, nor as the Apostles sit on Twelve Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Though you say Catech. p. 3. [None of the Saints can be perfected, the one without the other.] If that be true, either those on Earth that you liken to Adam in Paradise are as perfect as those in the New Heaven, or those in Heaven as imperfect as those on Earth. (And no wonder, when you place them but in the Air where evil Spirits dwell now, Catech. p. 12.) But Christ saith the Children of the Resurrection neither Marry nor are given in Marriage, but are like the Angels; And you say on Earth they shall be getting Children abundantly