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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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§ 1. This poor shift is answered above: Do you not say, Those alive are in the same Glorious Kingdom? and that none are perfect till all are perfect? And have those in the Air any more assurance that they shall not die, than Gods Love, and Will, and Promise, and their Union in Christ?
2. But why is not at least the Heavenly, or Airy Kingdom given up at first?
3. Was not death Conquered to the Person of Christ, after his Resurrection, though he was at his Ascension to be taken up? And is not death Conquered to those on Earth that have the foresaid security to ascend and never to die?
This shifting is mere violence to the Text.
This shifting is meer violence to the Text.