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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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And 1 Thes. 4. 16. The Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God, &c.]
If you will feign two Trumps, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the Thousand years, you will do it by so gross an addition and contradiction of Gods Word, as that I hope few will believe you: Nor yet if you feign that the Trumpet will not sound till the end of the Thousand years: For the Trumpet soundeth at the same time that Christ Cometh with his Angels, and that the dead are raised, and the Elect gathered. At this sound will be the change in a moment.
§ 3. II. The Text saith expressly that we shall be caught up together with them.] And that none may feign it to speak but of a simultas of Company and not of Time, the words are placed so as to confute it. [[Greek or Hebrew]] we shall with them be caught up: Not a Thousand years after them.
§ 3. II. The Text saith expresly that we shall be caught up together with them.] And that none may feign it to speak but of a simultas of Company and not of Time, the words are placed so as to confute it. [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] we shall with them be caught up: Not a Thousand years after them.