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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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§ 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.
And Government in general containeth Legislation, Judgment and Execution: You tell us not a word what Legislation will be in the Air the Thousand years. And for Judgment in special, will Christ be a Thousand years in Exploration and Sentence? Will the wicked so long be untried and uncondemned, or the Faithful so long unjustified, or by Sentence ⟨p. 36⟩judged to Salvation? Doth not Christ Mat. 25. contradict this? VViil their case be so long undecided?
And Government in general containeth Legislation, Judgment and Execution: You tell us not a word what Legislation will be in the Air the Thousand years. And for Judgment in special, will Christ be a Thousand years in Exploration and Sentence? Will the wicked so long be untryed and uncondemned, or the Faithful so long unjustified, or by Sentence