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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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You have partly relieved me against some Accusations of Singularity, when you tell your Readers (in the Preface to your English Mystery) that so many think the Thousand years past already, viz. That Aretius, Bilney, Wycliffe, Walter Brute, Benno Cardin, &c. thought that the time began at the Birth of Christ.
You have partly relieved me against some Accusations of Singularity, when you tell your Readers (in the Preface to your English Mystery) that so many think the Thousand years past already, viz. That Aretius, Bilney, Wickleffe, Walter Brute, Benno Cardin, &c. thought that the time began at the Birth of Christ.
That Viegas, Pererius, Augustine, Primasius, Bede, Andreas, thought it began at the Passion of Christ: That Junius, Pareus, Dent, Broughton, Bibliander, Usher, thought it began at the Destruction of the Jewish State: And that even Brightman, Majer, Forbes, Willet, Gerhard, Guild, Cartwright, as well as Alcaser Castiglius, begin it at Constantine's ⟨image 3⟩Enthronization; which is as the same with John Fox (Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 111.) Grotius, Hamond, and many others that begin it at the Fall of Maxentius, or Licinius, or at Constantine's Edict for Christians, from whence to the Ottoman Empire say they was just a Thousand years: And that the Conversion of the Jews will not be till the present state of this World be near its end, you hold with Bede, Estius, Acosta, Stella, Zanchy, Perkins, Vossius, Finnus.
That Viegas, Pererius, Augustine, Primasius, Beda, Andreas, thought it began at the Passion of Christ: That Junius, Pareus, Dent, Broughton, Bibliander, Usher, thought it began at the Destruction of the Jewish State: And that even Brightman, Majer, Forbes, Willet, Gerhard, Guild, Cartwright, as well as Alcaser Castiglius, begin it at Constantines ⟨image 3⟩Inthronization; which is as the same with John Fox (Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 111.) Grotius, Hamond, and many others that begin it at the Fall of Maxentius, or Licinius, or at Constantines Edict for Christians, from whence to the Ottoman Empire say they was just a Thousand years: And that the Conversion of the Jews will not be till the present state of this World be near its end, you hold with Beda, Estius, Acosta, Stella, Zanchy, Perkins, Vossius, Finnus.