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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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§ 18. XVII. You think Gog and Magog shall live after the Conflagration, who shall cover the Earth: And shall all their Bodies too be unburnt in the Fire, that dissolveth all these things on Earth? Is this any Word of God?
§ 19. XVIII. You that think Men live each one the whole Thousand years, and generate so abundantly as to recompense with a much more for the few that were saved under the first Adam, can by no reasonable imagination find room on Earth, for the numberless Off-spring of a Thousand years, to dwell all at once here: And the numberless followers of Gog and Magog also to dwell with them. They must not be so unrighteous as to dispossess the wicked of their dwellings; And for one year after all is burnt up, they may be in want.
§ 20. XIX. It is incredible that your description of Earth for the Thousand years can leave Gog and Magog in their Hostility unconvinced: For to see Men live a Thousand years in the sight of Christ and all the Saints in the Air, one would think should convince them: Or if Men are changed before at the common Age of Men, to see so many Millions caught up to Heaven without Death or Burial, sure would make them afraid of fighting against such.