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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 V. Answered.
§ 1. What could you have said more strongly against your self? Death is subdued or swallowed up in Victory when the Redeemed die no more. None of them die after Christs first day of Judgment at his appearing? Are they dying all the Thousand years? I cannot imagine what reasonable answer you can give to this Text and Argument!
If you say that there are Devils and wicked Men to be put to death all the Thousand years, can you prove that they were the Redeemed that Christ came to deliver from death? or yet that some of them are damned in the beginning, and some not till the end of the Thousand years? Or if their death shall endure no longer than the Thousand years?
If you say that the Saints on Earth, have Natures Mortal, though they shall not die; I answer, you have written that they are in the Kingdom of Glory, and equal in Love and Grace, and perfect, as those above. And if death be not subdued when Men are secured from it by Christ and the possession of promised Immortality, its a doubt whether it be overcome at all: For none are above a posse mori but God, because the Being of all Creatures dependeth merely on his will: The suspension of his support would end all Created Being: In which sense it is that Arnobius cont. Gentes asserteth the Souls Mortality. If Christ must be the Conqueror of Death, when will he Conquer, if not when Men die no more? Is it after he hath given up his Power and Kingdom?