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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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§ 10. IX. Matth 24. Christ tells us that He will gather his Elect from the four Winds, when he cometh with his Angels, and the Trumpet soundeth: But those found alive on Earth, cannot be excluded from the number of the Elect that are at or under the four Winds: Therefore they shall then be gathered to him.
§ 11. X. The living shall be caught up when Death the last Enemy is subdued: But that will be at Christs Triumphant Coming, and the Resurrection: For after that there will be no more death as an Enemy. If you would deny this (as aforesaid) because in the New Earth the Blessed are Mortal in possibility of Nature, I answer, that Paradise possibility (were it true) is none of the Curse for Sin, and therefore not the Enemy to be subdued.
§ 12. XI. The Saints shall be caught up when the day and work of Judgment Cometh: But that will be at Christs Coming, and the Resurrection: As he himself and many a plain Text of Scripture tell us, (too much to cite.) And whereas you feign a Judgment day of a Thousand years, taking Judgment for Government, Christ otherwise expoundeth himself, and tells how the Judgment will proceed by Exploration and Sentence, Mat. 25. &c.