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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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This shifting is mere violence to the Text.
This shifting is meer violence to the Text.
4. But I will prove that the Apostle tells us that the Catching up will be presently; And your words of [Christ first, and then those that sleep in him] have no more strength than this Inference [If Paul telling us of the difference in Order of time between Christs Resurrection and the End of the World, be signified by that word [Greek or Hebrew], after, then we may suppose that [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth no sudden change of the living at the Coming of Christ.] Ans. I deny the Consequence: The matter of fact tells us of a sixteen hundred years distance in one, and the Text proveth a suddenness in the other. The distance between Christs Rising and his Coming to Judgment are so notoriously revealed, that Paul need not say, It will not be the same moment. But here (if you believe not your self instead of Gods Word) the contrary is so plain as confuteth all your devised frame.
4. But I will prove that the Apostle tells us that the Catching up will be presently; And your words of [Christ first, and then those that sleep in him] have no more strength than this Inference [If Paul telling us of the difference in Order of time between Christs Resurrection and the End of the World, be signified by that word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, after, then we may suppose that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifieth no sudden change of the living at the Coming of Christ.] Ans. I deny the Consequence: The matter of fact tells us of a sixteen hundred years distance in one, and the Text proveth a suddenness in the other. The distance between Christs Rising and his Coming to Judgment are so notoriously revealed, that Paul need not say, It will not be the same moment. But here (if you believe not your self instead of Gods Word) the contrary is so plain as confuteth all your devised frame.