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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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§ 13. XII. The Saints will be taken up when the Kingdom is delivered up to the Father, and God is All In All: But that will be at Christ Triumphant Coming and Judgment at the Resurrection. For it signifieth no more but that Sin and Curse shall all be cast out, and all that rebelled against God be Conquered, and all Christs Recovering work performed, and God again Rule Man as Innocent according to the Law of his perfect Nature: This will be then finished.
You say that those on Earth shall be in a Paradise State, and those in the Air will not be worse: And then Christs Coming in Triumph delivereth up the Kingdom to the Father, that his and Christs Kingdom of Glory and Fruition may succeed.
§ 14. XIII. When Paul was opening to them the Mystery of Christs Kingdom, if he had talked thus of being caught up in a moment of time, at the last Trump to meet the Lord, and never told them a word of a Thousand years between the Trumpet and being caught up, it must be because he knew it not, or was not willing that we should know it: But neither of these could be true in a matter of so great moment, when it was that Coming of Christ that he was satisfying them about. And I will learn from you, nothing that Paul knew not.
§ 14. XIII. When Paul was opening to them the Mystery of Christs Kingdom, if he had talkt thus of being caught up in a moment of time, at the last Trump to meet the Lord, and never told them a word of a Thousand years between the Trumpet and being caught up, it must be because he knew it not, or was not willing that we should know it: But neither of these could be true in a matter of so great moment, when it was that Coming of Christ that he was satisfying them about. And I will learn from you, nothing that Paul knew not.